your fuel/mpg info.. please add yours!

[craigmk6]

right a few of us have been wanting to do this so here is mine..

over nearly a full tank i got. (before my fuel light came on)

350miles dead on
cost to refill £53
37.62 ltrs of fuel
cost per liter 140.9p

that works out at 43mpg

my car is a mk5 1.6tdi 5door

always driven very urban i.e very short trips and always carrying 2 adults a baby and a pram etc, this does affect the mpg.

im not too depressed about this even tho it says i should be doing 53mpg iirc

i hope in time when the engine is run in that it gets up to around 48-50mpg.

please fill in your records and lets see who is getting what!

 

[NetworkMan]

Hi craigmk6,

Actually I make it 42.3 mpg. ( 350/(37.62*0.220) )

I don't think that the mpg calculated over just one tankful is likely to be very reliable. The measurement will be affected by (for example) how level the car was when you filled the tank. In the past I've worked mine out over about 1000 miles or about three fill-ups. I also record all the fuel I buy and keep a running average mpg figure. My 1.2 tsi is too new and my mileage too low for me to have such a figure yet. All I can say is that it's somewhere in the range 45-50 mpg. So far I've only done about 700 miles from new.

By the way it seems that trip computers are often optimistic. I wonder is that's due to evaporation from the tank. The trip computer measures the fuel injected into the engine and doesn't take evaporation into account whereas measurements from fill to fill do. It's possible too that evaporation is worse with petrol than diesel.

 

[jc_boc]

Recently on a full tank I got roughly:

344 miles
£72.00 to refill
50.039 litres
£140.9 per litre

Ibiza Bocanegra

 

[craigmk6]

Yours is 30.6mpg

I must admit I have done mine slightly wrong as my first fill up was to the click and this one I squeezed an extra 80p in lol

My trip computer said 43.1 and IMO it's pretty much dead on.

Im planning to do it one more time.

Im going to go all they way to the red light and going to squeeze the 80p in again lol and recalculate it and I bet it's about 43mpg again. Then going to put another 4k on the car and try again. Bit sad but it's interesting doing this lol

 

[Deleted member 55317]

Recently on a full tank I got roughly:

344 miles
£72.00 to refill
50.039 litres
£140.9 per litre

Ibiza Bocanegra

£141 a litre jason u must be running on pure gold

 

[craigmk6]

Oh and I just calculated mine without the extra 80p lol and it's 42.9mpg and computer said 43.1mpg that's pretty close! Better than I thought!

 

[J400uk]

O/T but a couple of you mention 50 litres... I thought the new Ibiza tank was only 45 litre? Or does it vary model to model? FWIW mine is doing about 37mpg on short runs and 45mpg when I go out a bit further/ drive economically but I haven't filled it to the brim yet, been a penny less student and all that...

 

[craigmk6]

It's killed me filling it to the top as my girlfriend has just passed and she has used it all! Lol

Oh and that's another thing to add she doesn't drive very Eco only been passed 3 weeks lol

 

[jc_boc]

I vent my tank and you can usually get an extre 5 to 8 litres in. I am only using V-Power in mine and at £1.41 i think it's good considering I saw it at over £1.50 at the services hahahahahaha

 

[craigmk6]

You said £140.9 not £1.40.9p lol

 

[adamb87]

go on the fuelly website. you put in your mileage then the amount of litres filled up and hey presto theres your mpg. oo and you can make it your signature lol

 

[Alan Partridge]

Unless you're doing huge journeys all the time you'd be better off just putting small amounts of fuel in more often rather than filling it up completely in one go. The difference it makes will probably be minuscule but a lighter car will give a better MPG, no?

 

[jc_boc]

I think my avg is about 29.9 atm. LOL, typo on the cost of fuel there hehehehehe

 

[craigmk6]

I drive a 7.5ton truck at work and get 14.9mpg lol nice!

 

[skeat12]

This is from BP fuel log over 8 fill ups, I tend to round the fuel price up rather than use the .9 that they like sell it at, so 146.9p/l would be 147p/l etc. I only fill to the first click no matter which garage I use.

I only keep the record out of interest, I don't go out of my way to get the max mpg I can, as you can see

Max - MPG 49

Min - MPG 40

Distance - 2735 miles

Total fuel - 311.28 Litres over 58 days

Average distance per fill up - 39.71 miles

Average distance per pound - 10.02 miles

Total cost - £439.38

 

[nightflight]

Put £61 in t'other night (ouch) will report back how long that lasts me.

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[itfben]

I average 22mpg in my LCR (260bhp)

 

[znww5]

1.2Tsi 5dr with DSG - 43.2mpg on round trip Milton Keynes to Exeter using motorways and with a bit of sightseeing thrown and fairly liberal use of the A/C.

Car has only done about 2000 miles so far in total.

Worst figure has been 39.2mpg, lots of stop/start commuting over short distances.

All figures derived from actual fill-to-fill and mileage, not from the computer.

 

[craigmk6]

Andyf

Your average fuel cost is £141.1p per ltr

For the miles you have done for the cost of the fuel works out you have done 39.98mpg

 

[Tom Newton]

rough figures for mine

1.4 Sport SC

Fill Computer shows: 360-400 miles

Average MPG: 44.7 (around 2000miles 70% motorway driving)

Motorway MPG at below 70mph: 47(ish)

Motorway MPG at above 70mph: 42(ish)

Town MPG: 35-38

Last fill up at 132.9p litre around £59, 45 litre tank

max i have seen 50.2mpg out of it coming back from Northampton to Cardiff on the way back from Early Edition at below 70mph all the way