Fuel Gauge/MPG

[leegt5]

On friday I filled up the tank, well nearly, not all the way up the filler neck but until the petrol pump started spluttering.

Since then Ive done a few town journeys amounting to about 80 miles and noticed the petrol gauge going down rather quickly.

I am now on the line above half a tank.. I reset the MFA when i filled up and it is showing an average of 24.8mpg ! At this rate out of a tank I am looking at getting about 200 miles from a tank which cost £50 which seems a bit wrong...

Has anybody noticed that the rate the needle goes down is quicker in the top half than the bottom or is it the same and my cars drinking too much ??

Cheers
LEE

[boneybradley]

mines quicker top half of tank/gauge reading...... 24.8mpg average is little low but depends on what driving your doing
my average is around 27mpg

[firstgolfgti]

I agree round town which is all stop start i'm averaging 24/25mpg this is trip 1 position, and probably getting about 100miles just before the 1/2 tank line compared to constant speed and little gear changes easily getting 36/37mpg which gives somewhere between 180-200miles on the 1/2 tank which is pretty good.

So far I had it up to 44mpg that was couple of weeks ago and I got 120ish miles off the first 1/4 of a tank just driving down to rye thru the country roads at a steady 50/55 no more. But then for the rest of the tank it's all stop start journeys and only got 50ish miles for the next 1/4 tank which brought me up to the 1/2 tank line.

Its all swings and roundabouts though. And the fact that it's 97.9p/litre of petrol doesn't help if it was say 78p/litre you probably wouldn't think twice.

[Horney]

97.9p a litre? You get it lucky! I'm currently paying 101.9 for standard unleaded!

Nick

[firstgolfgti]

I've seen it at 95.9p/litre out in the sticks.

[leegt5]

When I filled it up it was 99.9p per litre..

[firstgolfgti]

I sold some stuff on ebay last week and a guy came down from brum in a mk3 diesel state, only he was using vegetable oil from morrisons think he had about a dozen 2litre containers and had used 1/2.

[jamesd0015 aka jimgti]

Want the cheapest fuel in your area?

Try these:

http://www.petrolprices.com/sticker.html

[firstgolfgti]

Yeah thats what I use.

[jaybee]

The issue with morrisons veg oil is that Customs and Excise monitor sales of vegetable oil and if you don't contact them and pay duty on veg oil for use as motor fuel they come and molest you financially......