2.2 petrol mpg

[matoakwell]

Had a chat with a guy who's selling a 2.2 sri estate and he reckons he gets 35 mpg round town and 47 mpg on a run. Are these figures possible from this engine?

Mat

[Gary406]

on a long run you may get 47mpg

but my 1.9 xud only does 35 round town so i would say NO hes telling porkies.

never had a 2.2 myself . just going off my 1.9 TD

i would say more 25 mpg round town not 35

[Bailes1992]

I agree with Gary here, 25-30mpg around town. 45+ on a cruise would be pushing it but probably possible

To put it in perspective...
My Focus 1.6 (Heavy foot - Light foot)
Around town (25 - 35mpg)
Country roads/Dual carrigeways etc (30 - 44mpg) Majority of my driving
Long motorway runs (37 - 49mpg) 49mpg usually sitting around 65mph, overtaking lorries one at a time trying not to affect traffic in the middle lane.
Betwen 70-80 I usually get ~45mpg
85+ cruising speed it usually drops to high 30's

Hope that helps

[lozz]

iwouid say 28 -30 mpg round town,
Puggy petrol engines are not bad idont think on the mpg.
compare it to something else as heavy with same size engine, and it wont be as good,

[Busman]

If people are genuinely getting the mid 40's mpg from a petrol, why are we running diesels?

[lozz]

If people are genuinely getting the mid 40's mpg from a petrol, why are we running diesels?

you can only get 40mpg or above from apetrol car on a motorway run,
kept at a steady 55mph anything above that mpg drops right down

Round town mpg in apetrol is up and down like a yo yo, one minute it will be 22mpg then 33 -36
all down to speed and stop start plays affect,

diesel will chug along happily and keep abetter mpg toward petrol,
petrol is better than diesel from cold thats the only diffence ican see

[Bailes1992]

If people are genuinely getting the mid 40's mpg from a petrol, why are we running diesels?

Becuase you got to always drive a petrol carefully to get good economy out of them.
Diesels you can thrash and still get a billion mpg

[Busman]

Another issue here for me is how many people genuinely check the accuracey of the trip computer? The only way of doing this is several full tanks of fuel and doing the maths. If you havent checked it, how would you know if its any good?
Due to sat navs most of us now know that speedos over read. If i'm doing an indicted 70, then my sat nav says 65ish for example.

[lozz]

Thats utter bollacks,

anyone witha Hdi will agree,

thrash it and put load on the turbo does your mpg remain the same or does the mpg fall through the floor,?

iused to get mid 30s out of my 110 hdi round town

where do you get billions of miles from
perhaps xud is better on diesel

but if thats the case why wouid you run one on cooking oil

[Busman]

Certainly if I thrash either of my HDI 110s, then the mpg plumits.

[Gary406]

Another issue here for me is how many people genuinely check the accuracey of the trip computer? The only way of doing this is several full tanks of fuel and doing the maths. If you havent checked it, how would you know if its any good?
Due to sat navs most of us now know that speedos over read. If i'm doing an indicted 70, then my sat nav says 65ish for example.

i know from my car being empty. doesnt have to be full ... a car with a full tank will do less mpg than one with empty tank anyway .

i always get 75-80 miles from 10 litres of fuel. (no bull) then the fuel light pops on

[Bailes1992]

Dosen;t plumet like a Petrol though.

Used to trash the tits off my 406 and did 30-35mpg all the time.
Thrash my Focus and it does about 20mpg.

[Busman]

But people on here are always moaning that the fuel gauge is not accurate, so that would make it no good to check the mpg.
But 80 miles from 2 gallons on a diesel sounds about right though.

[Bailes1992]

But people on here are always moaning that the fuel gauge is not accurate, so that would make it no good to check the mpg.
But 80 miles from 2 gallons on a diesel sounds about right though.

Generally the 406 gauge is great for a quick glance. But if you give it regular glances you sorta think... Errrr what?

[Gary406]

yep on motorway it goes to over 100 miles .

you wont get that from no 2.2 petrol engine especially 80 miles from 2 gallon ...

my friend has a 1.5 petrol engine. he drives it very very light everywere and still only gets 50-60 miles off 2 gallon