My hypermiling days are over
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- rwb
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My hypermiling days are over
I've moved 20 miles closer to work (because the landlord hasn't been paying his mortgages...), so I now have only a 20 mile round trip, and no motorway.
On the 10 miles this morning I could just manage to get the computer to read 40mpg average, whereas 50 was normal before.
It takes 6 miles for the temperature to get up to 90 degrees!
And now I can't justify getting a second 406 to run on veg oil
On the 10 miles this morning I could just manage to get the computer to read 40mpg average, whereas 50 was normal before.
It takes 6 miles for the temperature to get up to 90 degrees!
And now I can't justify getting a second 406 to run on veg oil
Current: 407 2.2 HDi 170 & C6 2.7 HDi.
Former: 406 1.9 TD; 406 HDi 90; 407 2.2 160; 307cc 180; 508 HDi 140.
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- Welly
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Re: My hypermiling days are over
I used to use mine to drive 3 miles to work and in the winter the temp gauge would only move to about 70 deg at best
Changing the thermostat and coolant helps get the temp up as quickly as poss.
I'd be glad on a shorter journey - less fuel, less time wasted in traffic, think of the summer - you can get home earlier and polish your motah all evening
Changing the thermostat and coolant helps get the temp up as quickly as poss.
I'd be glad on a shorter journey - less fuel, less time wasted in traffic, think of the summer - you can get home earlier and polish your motah all evening
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Re: My hypermiling days are over
You're upset because your commute just got a lot shorter?
Convert the calculations from miles per gallon to days per gallon...
Convert the calculations from miles per gallon to days per gallon...
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my commute is 4 miles per day.
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Re: My hypermiling days are over
Mines anywhere between 1 and.... oh I dunno, about 100, depending on where I'm working. Luckily we've just got a contract for a year working in a factory less than half a mile away, I do sometimes look at the MPG and cry cos of all the cold starts and short journeys but as Wiggy says, a tank of fuel will last me months at this rate...
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My drive to work is 7 miles, each way - the traffic in the morning is normally sparse, so the journey takes about 20 minutes, but in the evening it's often nose-to-tail for at least a mile - it has been known for me to spend 2 hours getting home (I would literally be quicker walking).
However, sometimes I have days where I need to pop down to Arbroath or Montrose, so there's a good run for the car. And, almost every weekend, it gets a blast down the dual carriageway to Stonehaven.
However, sometimes I have days where I need to pop down to Arbroath or Montrose, so there's a good run for the car. And, almost every weekend, it gets a blast down the dual carriageway to Stonehaven.
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- Welly
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Re: My hypermiling days are over
Oh that must be awful for you having to endure that every day
Actually there's something to be said for working a reasonable distance from home as, on the way home, you can kinda unwind and forget about work BEFORE you walk through the door. My old 3-mile jaunt used to only take 6 or 7 minutes sometimes and it wasn't really 'enough'
Actually there's something to be said for working a reasonable distance from home as, on the way home, you can kinda unwind and forget about work BEFORE you walk through the door. My old 3-mile jaunt used to only take 6 or 7 minutes sometimes and it wasn't really 'enough'
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Re: My hypermiling days are over
That's true. My 35/40 mins each way lets me unwind, gives me some thinking and 'me' time.
The downside is if you forget something or the odd emergency - once did the return trip 3 times, on a Sunday.
The downside is if you forget something or the odd emergency - once did the return trip 3 times, on a Sunday.
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2008 BMW E91 330i touring (great fun - murdered by a reversing SUV)
2007 BMW E91 325i touring (slower smoother quieter)
2003 HDi 2.2 6-speed Exec Estate (2012-19) (also a gem)
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It's horrific.Welly wrote:Oh that must be awful for you having to endure that every day
But when you don't finish till 2am & still have to be up for 7:30am you really don't want to be too far away from home.
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My regular daily commute is now 63 miles so about 100 km a day, start at 6am get back at 10 pm with a few hours off in the middle, but trust me a 100 km on Polish roads is a lot!
if i still had the 406 it would have to be about another 15 miles per day as the old pug would never have coped with some of terrain i have to cover to cut down on traffic and time, Warsaw is a capital city though so its like having to commute in and out of London every day except here we dont have the road network of most other European capital cities, in fact Warsaw is the only European capital city WITHOUT a ring road, if you want to cross Poland west to east or vice versa i.e Russia to Germany say, you drive through Warsaw
The disco is giving me 21.2 mpg at the moment too, what with the cold weather (-8 in the mornings) and the crappy winter additives combined with the speed most cars do here on cold icy roads in the mornings its a bit of a shock after the pug
I agree totally with needing the commute to unwind from work too, i find it essential, even if it is best part of 3 hours a day, minimum, driving.
if i still had the 406 it would have to be about another 15 miles per day as the old pug would never have coped with some of terrain i have to cover to cut down on traffic and time, Warsaw is a capital city though so its like having to commute in and out of London every day except here we dont have the road network of most other European capital cities, in fact Warsaw is the only European capital city WITHOUT a ring road, if you want to cross Poland west to east or vice versa i.e Russia to Germany say, you drive through Warsaw
The disco is giving me 21.2 mpg at the moment too, what with the cold weather (-8 in the mornings) and the crappy winter additives combined with the speed most cars do here on cold icy roads in the mornings its a bit of a shock after the pug
I agree totally with needing the commute to unwind from work too, i find it essential, even if it is best part of 3 hours a day, minimum, driving.
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Re: My hypermiling days are over
I drive about a mile to college.
I can walk it in 20 mins or drive it in 5. Thing is if I drive I have to leave at 5 past 8 to get parking? Where I could leave at half past if I walked.
Why do I drive?
I can walk it in 20 mins or drive it in 5. Thing is if I drive I have to leave at 5 past 8 to get parking? Where I could leave at half past if I walked.
Why do I drive?
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Re: My hypermiling days are over
as good as the 406 is as a comfortable big mile muncher, i did about 5 weeks of 40 mile commuting and it was as boring as hell, and i still had to park and walk.