al cope
Joined: 08 Nov 2005
Location: Oldbury, WM
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Just decided try being a bit lighter footed, so today, round trip from Brum to West Malling in Kent, 360mile round trip. Kept the speed to a steady cruise (between 70 and 75, apart from short section of M25 at 60, 'cause the speed signs were on), trip comp showing 34.2MPG, but better still was trip mileage at the half tank mark was 319, with range showing 330miles still to go.
Who says its a gas guzzler 
Al TDV6 S - Tonga with Ebony
(and 19" RRS alloys, satnav & DVD)
Vote for Global Warming - Cambridge on Sea sounds good to me, no more using the M5 to get to the seaside
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tanters
Joined: 24 Oct 2007
Location: Waterford
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was that kph 
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| Thu May 08 2008 5:18pm |
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al cope
Joined: 08 Nov 2005
Location: Oldbury, WM
Posts: 1576
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whats them then? MPH in this imperialistic state, thank you very much! 
Al TDV6 S - Tonga with Ebony
(and 19" RRS alloys, satnav & DVD)
Vote for Global Warming - Cambridge on Sea sounds good to me, no more using the M5 to get to the seaside
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| Thu May 08 2008 5:22pm |
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tanters
Joined: 24 Oct 2007
Location: Waterford
Posts: 526
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and we all know what happened in star wars now dont we 
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| Thu May 08 2008 5:31pm |
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TallPaul
Joined: 03 Jan 2008
Location: Dark side of the moon
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thats no moon...
(muttered by drivers between Brum to West Malling in Kent)
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| Thu May 08 2008 5:37pm |
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al cope
Joined: 08 Nov 2005
Location: Oldbury, WM
Posts: 1576
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may the farce be with you (commonly known as an EPB)
Al TDV6 S - Tonga with Ebony
(and 19" RRS alloys, satnav & DVD)
Vote for Global Warming - Cambridge on Sea sounds good to me, no more using the M5 to get to the seaside
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| Thu May 08 2008 5:48pm |
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ronp
Joined: 29 Nov 2006
Location: ..... with her!!!
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al cope wrote:Kept the speed to a steady cruise (between 70 and 75, apart from short section of M25 at 60, 'cause the speed signs were on), trip comp showing 34.2MPG,
Why the heck are consumtion figures so varied on the D3
I do most of my driving on Motorways at similar speeds - my overspeed warning is set to 75 - and I only get 27mpg at best.
It does have a JE re-map, but then it's not being used at these speeds!
WHY THE HUGE DIFFERENCES
oops, sorry for shouting! Blessed are the cracked, for they shall let in the light.
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countrywide
Joined: 16 Sep 2007
Location: Sunny South Coast
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I can just get 30mpg on my auto if I drive very carefully, but generally 27mpg. For some reason it has dropped recently to 24.5mpg which is the lowest ever.
I only got 36mpg today using the Qahqai to go to London, but that was a lot of town driving.
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| Thu May 08 2008 6:39pm |
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DSL
Joined: 11 May 2006
Location: In the Dog House!
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cw check your air filter as changing mine made a big dif (25 up tp 29 overnight after change). Worth a few pennies, well £15, spent with TLO, might be a good group buy from Nick@Yeovil.
Honda Dog U better DUCK!!!!!
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| Thu May 08 2008 7:59pm |
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countrywide
Joined: 16 Sep 2007
Location: Sunny South Coast
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DSL wrote:cw check your air filter as changing mine made a big dif (25 up tp 29 overnight after change). Worth a few pennies, well £15, spent with TLO, might be a good group buy from Nick@Yeovil.
Thanks, never checked it. I will get one from Nick plus a few other bits I want.
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| Thu May 08 2008 9:18pm |
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Shrinky
Joined: 05 Jul 2007
Location: Gloucestershire
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al cope wrote:, trip comp showing 34.2MPGl
Thats nothing. You should speak to simon  Global Warming.... I'm luvvin it.
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| Thu May 08 2008 9:35pm |
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simon
Joined: 11 Jan 2005
Location: Do you really need to know ?
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Shrinky wrote:al cope wrote:, trip comp showing 34.2MPGl
Thats nothing. You should speak to simon
Been trying to upload the pics of the Message Centre... sever won't play the game.
But yeah, 37MPG taking it easy but not driving like grandad. Included around 3 miles of low range around Stonehenge (it was a quiet day) and 154.4 miles of driving in total. Mixed roads, A, B, motorway etc.
Total range if you add the trip to the 'what you can still do' number was 710.4 miles.
IF the server will let me upload later, I'll post the pics. If you need me to of course
You trust me don't you ??? Really you do 
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mal_NW
Joined: 04 Mar 2008
Location: Garstang, Lancs
Posts: 182
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I can get 33 driving to work on the A6, mainly 50-60 taking it steady.
I also get 18 with the caravan on the back. 
Mine is an Auto with remap. Also a member of avforums.com
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philhunt
Joined: 16 Sep 2007
Location: MI5 not 9 to 5
Posts: 358
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I know that there's a thread about diesel additives elsewhere on the site but (like Wiggs ISTR) I recently added a bottle of Forte Advanced Diesel Treatment to a full tank on my 05 TDV6 SE. I then ran the tank down to when the Low Fuel light started to appear then filled up to the top. Since using the Forte stuff, there has been a substantial increase (+ 20%) in the average mpg showing on the trip computer (yes I know this isn't an accurate indicator). At one stage last weekend after filling up, the trip computer even got up to 40.6 mpg after 70 miles from the fill up.
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| Thu May 08 2008 11:31pm |
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al cope
Joined: 08 Nov 2005
Location: Oldbury, WM
Posts: 1576
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I didnt want to be driving like me dad, so no 55mph stuff (at which I guess you could get higher MPG), so 34 at 70-75 seemed OK to me. And I checked my trip MPG readout only last week against a brim to brim fill, and it was only 0.1MPG out (calculation gave 26MPG, trip was showing 26.1)
Al TDV6 S - Tonga with Ebony
(and 19" RRS alloys, satnav & DVD)
Vote for Global Warming - Cambridge on Sea sounds good to me, no more using the M5 to get to the seaside
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