Look at this petrol receipt and weep....

[mav]

D8 1.9td doin bout 25mpg, mostly driving from dudley to wolverhampton. am goin on a holiday (read p!ss up) to blackpool, so should find out what motorway mileage is soon

[Eric]

D8 1.9td doin bout 25mpg,

[jameslxdt]

i never did less than 600 miles to 70 litres in the old HDi

[Welly]

I have been thinking a bit about my fuel economy recently because I now do a run to work with no traffic lights, traffic etc. all rural roads and steady going.

I can pootle around lightly, BUT, and it's a big BUT - I fear that pootling around in a Deisel is not good for deposit build up so I do daily 'blasts' with full boost to keeps things sweet (IMO).

My garage showed me a 4 year old Renault Clito which was a Learner Car and had spent all of it's life below 2000 rpm and the EGR system had blocked and started throwing lumps at the Turbo (which failed). £1,200.00 later the car was running fine again

I suppose I drive fast in a way, or rather I get up to my cruising speed as quickly as poss. All not good for economy. I like to 'drive' my cars and I suppose my economy suffers. I can always get 50MPG on a run though so I don't think the car's at fault.

I put £30.00 last week and have covered 180 miles so far and the MFD says 120 left to go. Mind you it allways seems to suddenly drop the distance left near the end of the tank so I would only expect about 60 miles now

[Eric]

I have been thinking a bit about my fuel economy recently because I now do a run to work with no traffic lights, traffic etc. all rural roads and steady going.

I can pootle around lightly, BUT, and it's a big BUT - I fear that pootling around in a Deisel is not good for deposit build up so I do daily 'blasts' with full boost to keeps things sweet (IMO).

My garage showed me a 4 year old Renault Clito which was a Learner Car and had spent all of it's life below 2000 rpm and the EGR system had blocked and started throwing lumps at the Turbo (which failed). £1,200.00 later the car was running fine again

I suppose I drive fast in a way, or rather I get up to my cruising speed as quickly as poss. All not good for economy. I like to 'drive' my cars and I suppose my economy suffers. I can always get 50MPG on a run though so I don't think the car's at fault.

I put £30.00 last week and have covered 180 miles so far and the MFD says 120 left to go. Mind you it allways seems to suddenly drop the distance left near the end of the tank so I would only expect about 60 miles now

I drive the same, get up to crusing speed then sit there at 1.1k to 1.8k revs.

I also find my fuel gauge drops sharply in the last half.
Generally I can get 400 miles out of the first half of the tank the last half only lasts 200 miles.
Most cars I have driven are the same to a lesser extent.
My MR2 would actually drop when it was at 1/4 of a tank when you put your foot down and the light would come on but then it would go back up to just under 1/4 of a tank when you backed off the throttle.
Used to worry me abit ;)

[STALLED]

In Australia we use this magical thing called the METRIC SYSTEM!

Therefore I got 9.88L/100km or 28.59 MPG in your werid speak! Oh and mine is a 2.0 Petrol XU10

[Welly]

I got 9.88L/100km

You said what now?

[Eric]

I got 9.88L/100km

You said what now?

Foreigners talk funny ;)

[Captain Jack]

Not being a native Brit, I find a lot of things weird here. Why does everyone use "stones", instead of kilograms? Why not a pebble? Miles instead of kilometers? MPG instead of L/100km? OK, I understand the Km bit being related to using weird miles... but who here uses "gallons"? So might as well stick with L/100Km! And the worst thing... why do you lot drive on the wrong side of the bloody road?!

Oh well... at least it's not America where water freezes at 32 degrees

Carry on...

[Eric]

Not being a native Brit, I find a lot of things weird here. Why does everyone use "stones", instead of kilograms? Why not a pebble? Miles instead of kilometers? MPG instead of L/100km? OK, I understand the Km bit being related to using weird miles... but who here uses "gallons"? So might as well stick with L/100Km! And the worst thing... why do you lot drive on the wrong side of the bloody road?!

Oh well... at least it's not America where water freezes at 32 degrees

Carry on...

Actually the driving on the left thing actually makes sense from a history point of view.

Knights used to ride on the left hand side of the "road", track whatever so that their sword arm was free to belt people (no one a few hundred years ago was left handed as it was a sign of witch craft.)
They would also ride on the left when jousting for the same reason.


That's why we drive on the right side of the road (the left)

[STALLED]

I got 9.88L/100km

You said what now?

GIT FAAAAAAAAAAAAAARKED!

[Welly]

Cool, an impromptu history lesson from Eric

We Brits like imperial measures!

we go for a 'pint'
we park 'inches' from you
we put on a few 'pounds'

In the bedroom department we don't whip out our 177.8 mm'er, Oh No, we whip out a 7 incher!!!

[Eric]

Cool, an impromptu history lesson from Eric

Oh No, we whip out a 7 incher!!!

Speak for yourself.
Some of us Brits are a little.... bigger (metric or imperial)

But most of the Imperial measurements were based off estimations, feet, yards, inches, etc were all based on everyday objects that people could identify so could visualise the approximate size.

Ok it wasn't very accurate and every area used different measurements slightly.

Probably explains why nothing that was built hundreds of years ago in Britain is straight, just look at old English houses - Not a straight line in sight

[STALLED]

Cool, an impromptu history lesson from Eric

We Brits like imperial measures!

we go for a 'pint'
we park 'inches' from you
we put on a few 'pounds'

In the bedroom department we don't whip out our 177.8 mm'er, Oh No, we whip out a 7 incher!!!

PFFFFT!

We go for a "Schooner"
We park "FAAAAAAAAAAAAAARKIN CLOSE"
We put on a few kilos.

Anyways, I'm rather content with my metric system and my ice cold beer.

[mjb]

Not being a native Brit, I find a lot of things weird here. Why does everyone use "stones", instead of kilograms?

Why not? The kilogram is just based off some lump of metal sitting in a vault in France. In fact the value of "1 kilogram" actually changes with time as the lump of metal is subjected to atmospheric conditions...