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Offline p3eps

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Miles per tank?
« on: 14 May 2010, 07:11 »
I'm sure this has probably been done before, but it'll be interesting to see what the regulars get.
I'm not talking about MPG - I'm talking about how many miles you get out of your tank when you fill up until you refill.
No diesel comments please  :wink:

I put in £63 of Optimax a couple of days ago which was almost exactly 50L of petrol.  On my clock I had 277 when I reset it.
About 200 of those miles were driven round the highlands with a pretty heavy foot.  The rest were start / stop town miles.
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Re: Miles per tank?
« Reply #1 on: 14 May 2010, 07:44 »
`No diesel comments please  `



Awwww...no fair !  :grin:
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Offline Spartacus

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Re: Miles per tank?
« Reply #2 on: 14 May 2010, 07:50 »
450 miles if It take it easy

I am sure I could get 500 miles plus if I drove like Miss Daisy
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Offline herbie911

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Re: Miles per tank?
« Reply #3 on: 14 May 2010, 08:35 »
Are you sure that your car is not a diesel? :smug:

360miles mostly town driving with the odd motorway blast

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Re: Miles per tank?
« Reply #4 on: 14 May 2010, 09:15 »
450 miles if It take it easy

I am sure I could get 500 miles plus if I drove like Miss Daisy

Yep I have had 450 out of mine also. But like you said 500 is do-able. Would require some long motorway journeys though :nerd:

Offline matchboy

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Re: Miles per tank?
« Reply #5 on: 14 May 2010, 09:36 »
320 odd miles on a usual tank which is me driving hard.  on a week where i'm doing motorway driving it will push 400 miles, but this is not my norm.  its basically every 6 days that i have to fill up if i don't have any other journeys to do (which is not helpful and useless information!!)  :smiley:
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Offline SteveP

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Re: Miles per tank?
« Reply #6 on: 14 May 2010, 15:43 »
4 laps of the Ring was what I got out of the last tank full of fuel (78 euro's worth of 100 octane fuel) in Germany, this was about 80 miles with cool down and coffee runs :evil:

Computer average said 9.2 mpg  :grin:

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Re: Miles per tank?
« Reply #7 on: 14 May 2010, 16:00 »
4 laps of the Ring was what I got out of the last tank full of fuel (78 euro's worth of 100 octane fuel) in Germany, this was about 80 miles with cool down and coffee runs :evil:

Computer average said 9.2 mpg  :grin:

Thats what I like to see!!!  :grin:

Like to see the GTD boys beat that  :laugh:

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Re: Miles per tank?
« Reply #8 on: 14 May 2010, 18:44 »
380 ish.

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Re: Miles per tank?
« Reply #9 on: 14 May 2010, 20:39 »
350ish when the light come on and the compter says another 35ish, so about 385 for me. Mostly motorway miles, 2000miles so far
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