Member Since: 02 Aug 2014
Location: Edinburgh
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Re-set the trip/average mpg/average speed display and then check it in a few mies/days time.
Short trips and idling etc won't do it any favours.
What is the average speed reading?
1st Feb 2017 10:41 pm
lynalldiscovery
Member Since: 22 Dec 2009
Location: Maidstone
Posts: 7274
Felstmiester wrote:
Ja92mie wrote:
Maybe SWMBO has a heavy right foot
her car before was a Audi 3.0tdi Quattro. Bloody quick for what it is. So it's prob the trouble. She maybe trying to boot the bus out the corners wondering why it's not performing like the Audi lol.
My wife has a 3.0tdi quattro and you cant compare it to a D3 2.7 in anyway, the Audi responds instantly to the throttle and is like a scalded cat and it goes around corners
She doesnt like driving the D3 as she reckons its got no power and handles like a jelly! after driving her car for a few miles I can see what she means.
2nd Feb 2017 5:22 am
plocker
Member Since: 14 Mar 2016
Location: Preston
Posts: 828
pjm-84 wrote:
Yep the V8 is tad heavy around town.
I was laughing at 5.6mpg showing on dash the other day.
I'm sure they were tears of joy and not pain 05 V8 HSE Bonatti Grey
2nd Feb 2017 8:17 am
Felstmiester
Member Since: 12 Dec 2016
Location: Hertfordshire
Posts: 211
JMack wrote:
Re-set the trip/average mpg/average speed display and then check it in a few mies/days time.
Short trips and idling etc won't do it any favours.
What is the average speed reading?
all reset. The av speed before was 28mph.
2nd Feb 2017 4:45 pm
D16PJM
Member Since: 08 Dec 2015
Location: Sidcup, Kent
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with an average speed of 28mph I would of expected higher mpg.De tango
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2nd Feb 2017 5:53 pm
tcr4x4
Member Since: 24 Jan 2010
Location: England
Posts: 1526
I've had 14mpg for the last two fill ups!
2nd Feb 2017 9:23 pm
galwaygreen
Member Since: 30 Oct 2011
Location: plymouth
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not in mud and ruts is it
2nd Feb 2017 9:25 pm
life - live it
Member Since: 14 Apr 2017
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I have a 2006 D3 with 160k on the clock.
Did a journey to London a few months ago and I was returning 36.5 mpg @ 70 mph.
The EGR's are blanked off though.
5th Oct 2017 10:29 pm
MJD 3
Member Since: 10 Feb 2016
Location: Teesside
Posts: 311
I had an issue with my injectors after getting a crap re-map carried out, my mpg dropped to 21 on motorway runs but was going into limp mode if any great throttle applied, I bit the bullet and got new injectors fitted and average about 28 now but with some care I can get 30+ on a decent motorway run.
Hope you get things sorted
I have a 2006 D3 with 160k on the clock.
Did a journey to London a few months ago and I was returning 36.5 mpg @ 70 mph.
The EGR's are blanked off though.
Sorry don't believe you - unless that was down hill with the wind behind you. I never got more than 31mpg on a full tank, in 174k miles - and the 30mpg I did get once, was due to the M1 road works and was sat at 50mph all the way.Mark.
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6th Oct 2017 6:16 am
Mogwyth
Member Since: 03 Oct 2014
Location: Pwllheli
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Can't get even close to that I have never had my V8 below about 12.5 and I do use the loud pedal.==================================
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6th Oct 2017 6:16 am
life - live it
Member Since: 14 Apr 2017
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36.5 mpg is what I got
Put the auto box into sport mode and pushed the gear lever forward to put it into 6th speed, the revs dropped and the MPG went up.
I will however do another run along the A1 to prove that
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