Member Since: 03 Feb 2006
Location: Blackpool where it does happen every night.
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now that what I call consumpton thanks Shell Fuel save ...
Today i checked and corrected my tyre pressures, I cleaned the valve that gets gunked up, I used Shell Diesel fuelsave, I switched off the air con, I reset the fuel computer and set off on the M55 from Blackpool today. I set the cruise at 70mph and drove for around 5 miles and then took this picture, I am very pleased with this fuel consumption of 34.8 mpg , is this the norm or do others get better ??
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21st Jan 2012 7:22 pm
grzesiul
Member Since: 11 May 2008
Location: UK
Posts: 6266
this reading give or take minus around 5-8% in most cases and u'd get real MPG
21st Jan 2012 7:24 pm
DSL Keeper of the wheelie bin
Member Since: 11 May 2006
Location: Off again! :-)
Posts: 72790
And that's anything to do with the shell fuel? ISTR they had to pull claims of saving fuel.
21st Jan 2012 7:25 pm
Discoed
Member Since: 16 Jun 2010
Location: Yorkshire
Posts: 1020
grzesiul wrote:
this reading give or take minus around 5-8% in most cases and u'd get real MPG
In my experience add 1 mpg to the trip computer to get actual (although I seem to be the only person on the forum with a pessimistic TC!)
21st Jan 2012 7:27 pm
sean 471
Member Since: 26 Apr 2011
Location: Sheffield
Posts: 2990
I often get 35 on a run. If I drop the speed down to 65 it makes a difference. However lot depends on which ways the wind is blowing. Towing I get 25 never really changes unless the wind is in my face and blowing. Lot of it is down to driving style.
21st Jan 2012 7:34 pm
DSL Keeper of the wheelie bin
Member Since: 11 May 2006
Location: Off again! :-)
Posts: 72790
Mine over-reads by anything from 2 - 5mpg. I get depressed when I see 17mpg on the trip.
21st Jan 2012 7:35 pm
pom
Member Since: 10 Feb 2008
Location: Worcestershire
Posts: 1790
35.2 on the way down to Stonehenge today, 5 up as well!
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21st Jan 2012 8:16 pm
fat bloke
Member Since: 07 Aug 2006
Location: OXFORD
Posts: 1243
Doing 23mpg with knackered EGR valves,,
21st Jan 2012 9:06 pm
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Member Since: 13 Aug 2010
Location: Wiltshire
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21st Jan 2012 11:37 pm
JDB
Member Since: 25 Mar 2010
Location: NW Hampshire
Posts: 2485
Re: now that what I call consumpton thanks Shell Fuel save .
lancsamb wrote:
.....drove for around 5 miles and then took this picture
Not really representative - downhill, tail wind etc. Needs to be for at least 1/2 a tank worth to see what it actually is......
I'm getting less than that and my EGR's were changed last year (Both)
But I do a lot of start stop driving to and from work. Off to Leeds tomorrow, so will see if it does get better. If not, then I'll have to see what is wrong.Mark.
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22nd Jan 2012 9:40 am
yogi972
Member Since: 05 Jun 2011
Location: Kineton
Posts: 3372
Im getting 21-22mpg at mo but I am assuming its my usage of the fbh that is causing it...
maybe EGR blankage next?
22nd Jan 2012 8:37 pm
Discotres
Member Since: 25 Jan 2010
Location: London
Posts: 8491
I entered all my fuel data in an app on my iphone religiously for 6mths, it showed the dash reading as utter bo:censored:ocks, I don't know how they get away with it, it's a pure con!
22nd Jan 2012 8:56 pm
ronp
Member Since: 29 Nov 2006
Location: North Yorkshire
Posts: 15214
My D4 is currently showing 41mpg
Reason being - that having showing an average of 29mpg, after a drive in the moors today, my mpg went down to 24.5
So around 15 miles from home, on good roads, I reset my trip meter and drove as light footed as I could, keeping speed to around 55mph - just to see what I could achieve.
Was surprised I managed to achieve such a reading, but that will be well gone by tomorrow I was a normal heterosexual chap, but in these new woke awakenings I now identify as a Wardrobe.
22nd Jan 2012 8:58 pm
Archeci
Member Since: 17 Jul 2009
Location: East Yorkshire
Posts: 558
Mine had both EGR's replaced a little over two years ago, currently getting around 25MPG mainly communting to and from work. 13 mile journey covering rural national speed limit roads and a few miles of urban speed limits. The 57 plate we have at work (which gets hammered) is around the same or worse, but that one has a light bar and go faster striping.
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