mikeyt
Member Since: 31 Oct 2010
Location: heanor
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Hi all first post, picked up our SE 2006 silver a week ago and still smiling 'what a car' had a TD5 GS fot 8 years but this is something else, the wife will use it every day for short runs to work and back and to pull our caravan. noticed yesterday the car was averaging 41 mph on the m42 and was wondering how accurate is this.
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 5th Dec 2010 6:37 pm |
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The Transformer
Member Since: 22 Jan 2010
Location: Leicestershire
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41  was you being towed ?
Welcome 
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| 5th Dec 2010 6:39 pm |
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Russell
Member Since: 24 Aug 2007
Location: Kent
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41 mph  do you mean 41 MPG if so something is wrong MY17 D5 1st Edition Namib Orange
MY15 D4 HSE Kaikoura Stone
MY12 D4 HSE Nara Bronze Sold and gone
MY11 D4 HSE Stornaway Grey Sold and gone
D3 S spec Silver Sold and gone
Tow bar, full length roof bars, side steps, tow bar storage unit, surround camers.
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| 5th Dec 2010 6:40 pm |
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mikeyt
Member Since: 31 Oct 2010
Location: heanor
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sorry,yes 41mpg average showing on the screen at 60mph on the motorway 22/3mpg in town is there something amiss
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| 5th Dec 2010 7:55 pm |
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Will Hay
Member Since: 04 Oct 2010
Location: Beautiful Yorkshire
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How long/far was it running for to give you an average of 41mpg?
I came back from Coventry to North Leeds in Oct and averaged 29mpg on cruise at 70mph.
I reckon I could have increased that ever so slightly without cruise on.
Hope that helps 
Mine was silver too so yours should be the same mpg 
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| 5th Dec 2010 8:09 pm |
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mikeyt
Member Since: 31 Oct 2010
Location: heanor
Posts: 41
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from near Jct 26 M1 to ctr Birmingham via M42/M6 and back total around 115mls no cruise
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| 5th Dec 2010 8:23 pm |
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mikeyt
Member Since: 31 Oct 2010
Location: heanor
Posts: 41
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from near Jct 26 M1 to ctr Birmingham via M42/M6 and back total around 115mls no cruise
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| 5th Dec 2010 9:08 pm |
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bp
Member Since: 06 Jan 2010
Location: Stuck On The High Road
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41mpg is v impressive I would have to push mine to get anywhere close to that Don’t worry it is supposed to sound like that...honest
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| 5th Dec 2010 10:10 pm |
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mikeyt
Member Since: 31 Oct 2010
Location: heanor
Posts: 41
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Ok, youre slowly wiping the smile off my face but it was good while it lasted, so the readout is telling porkies then
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| 6th Dec 2010 11:29 am |
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geoff.
Member Since: 24 Jan 2010
Location: West kent
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Yep 
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| 6th Dec 2010 11:37 am |
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Andrew Hebron
Member Since: 16 Jan 2009
Location: Teddington
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mikeyt wrote:Ok, youre slowly wiping the smile off my face but it was good while it lasted, so the readout is telling porkies then
Not so fast chaps! Like me, Mikey is driving a manual, which LR reckons to be ~15% more fuel efficient than an auto.
My recent trip from London to Pickering averaged 33MPG including some crawling in tailbacks and quite a lot of not very efficient 85~90MPH cruising. Using the LR 15% rule, I guess the equivalent trip in an auto would be ~28MPG? Does that sound right, auto people?
Mikey - If you reset the computer while on the M-way and were cruising between 60-70 - i.e. only measuring in the most efficient band - then 41MPG is possible (albeit not sustainable over a decent sample). Around town 22-24MPG is consistent with what I see. Andrew
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| 6th Dec 2010 11:56 am |
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TheChief
Member Since: 15 Dec 2009
Location: North East
Posts: 106
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You are not number dyslexic are you ? It wasn't 14mpg ???
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| 6th Dec 2010 12:00 pm |
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2DISCO3ORNOT
Member Since: 27 Apr 2009
Location: at sea
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Strong tailwind can make the difference, need about sixty knots though to acheive 41MPG
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| 6th Dec 2010 12:59 pm |
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mike23118
Member Since: 01 Oct 2010
Location: North Wales
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On a trip from North to south Wales Mine ave was 33mpg And that was with SWMBO Driving you know what its like all throttle and brake and must say I S  t myself. She would not let me drive as that thing on the left spat me off couple of weeks ago and fractured my elbow (should have bought an auto)  Now Renault Trafic
D4 gone
D3 gone
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| 6th Dec 2010 1:14 pm |
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