Fuel consumption

I still average 5.32L/100 and I am not light footed - Suzuki Swift being my daily runner
 
Can't remember if I have posted this before
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Heavy with the pops and bangs tonight :p:p

Local trip

Edit: please disregard time and average speed. Car was on for a while, listening to music.

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My mapped Polo 1.4 TDI takes 6.2l per 100 km. 6.7l in rush hours. Every second time I fill the tank I start a new economical run. The first idiot ends it when I accelerate away. Often within 5km of the garage...

My car has this lovely average consumption reading. To remain closer to 5.5l per 100 km, I become a major obstacle.

My lower engine cover is missing which should improve consumption once I replaced it.
 
I'm around 15km/L on my 2014 Ballade CVT now. Drive upto 550km on a tank (small tank) of which 400km is open road - I'm 50km from the office (120km/h N2) and 50km from my weekend place (70km/h coastal meander). The school run destroys my fuel efficiency.
 
So I did 909 km's on 70 liters, first click fill ups. Car shows 6.7l/100km but it works on to around 1 liter more, trip computer is super optimistic it seems. I would've easily pushed it to 1000 km's but the traffic was super shi t last week so that cut my range by quite a lot.
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Craig_ said:
So I did 909 km's on 70 liters, first click fill ups. Car shows 6.7l/100km but it works on to around 1 liter more, trip computer is super optimistic it seems. I would've easily pushed it to 1000 km's but the traffic was super shi t last week so that cut my range by quite a lot.
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Exactly...mine is similar...onboard computers lie all the time. Only way to know really is to count the litres and the kilometers and do the maths yourself.
My average for the last year is 9.3L/100km from a 3.0L 230kw twin turbo diesel and the best tank ever was downhill from Clarens to Margate with a 7.1l/100km average.
I use fuelly.com to input the litres I throw in every tank so I know exactly what the car is doing.
 
Craig_ said:
So I did 909 km's on 70 liters, first click fill ups. Car shows 6.7l/100km but it works on to around 1 liter more, trip computer is super optimistic it seems. I would've easily pushed it to 1000 km's but the traffic was super shi t last week so that cut my range by quite a lot.
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Is the 75km the range left
Its about right 70l would give you 1000km
 
flytek said:
Exactly...mine is similar...onboard computers lie all the time. Only way to know really is to count the litres and the kilometers and do the maths yourself.
My average for the last year is 9.3L/100km from a 3.0L 230kw twin turbo diesel and the best tank ever was downhill from Clarens to Margate with a 7.1l/100km average.
I use fuelly.com to input the litres I throw in every tank so I know exactly what the car is doing.
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At that trip computer consumption I was supposed to do over 1 000 km, I actually wanted to work out how far out it was, and I was actively trying to use as little as possible. That consumption you're getting with that power is bloody good, BMW?

Pak Fa Fui said:
Is the 75km the range left
Its about right 70l would give you 1000km
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In theory it shows over 1000km when I fill up, it only gets just over 900 though, trip computer reading is far out.
 
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Craig_ said:
So I did 909 km's on 70 liters, first click fill ups. Car shows 6.7l/100km but it works on to around 1 liter more, trip computer is super optimistic it seems. I would've easily pushed it to 1000 km's but the traffic was super shi t last week so that cut my range by quite a lot.
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That's very frugal. 2.2?

A few years ago after my work Caddy was written off, I had a 2.2 Ranger as a hire bakkie, and driving back from EL to PE one afternoon, I managed to get it as low as 3.3l/100km in some spots @ 100kph. It was the barebones single cab though, so 120kph was unbearably loud as there was zero cabin or engine bay insulation on the one I drove.
 
PhireSide said:
That's very frugal. 2.2?

A few years ago after my work Caddy was written off, I had a 2.2 Ranger as a hire bakkie, and driving back from EL to PE one afternoon, I managed to get it as low as 3.3l/100km in some spots @ 100kph. It was the barebones single cab though, so 120kph was unbearably loud as there was zero cabin or engine bay insulation on the one I drove.
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2.2 yes, that's not too bad, but when I don't try the trip computer shows 8.5 so it's probably over 9. But for the size of the car it's okay, I was expecting worse when I bought it. This is quiet though, don't have that issue. It can get very frugal on the open road at low speed, but once you get into traffic or higher speeds it starts eating fuel.
 
Craig_ said:
2.2 yes, that's not too bad, but when I don't try the trip computer shows 8.5 so it's probably over 9. But for the size of the car it's okay, I was expecting worse when I bought it. This is quiet though, don't have that issue. It can get very frugal on the open road at low speed, but once you get into traffic or higher speeds it starts eating fuel.
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Ja, the diesel's normally like cruising, but getting that chassis moving from a stop (like in traffic) will eat into those figures in no time.

If it helps, if I take the A4 down the road to the store and back, my average lies at around 16-17l/100km. But I normally average around 11l/100km around town with combined driving.

If there is stop-go traffic, I have better luck getting out and pushing it.
 
PhireSide said:
Ja, the diesel's normally like cruising, but getting that chassis moving from a stop (like in traffic) will eat into those figures in no time.

If it helps, if I take the A4 down the road to the store and back, my average lies at around 16-17l/100km. But I normally average around 11l/100km around town with combined driving.

If there is stop-go traffic, I have better luck getting out and pushing it.
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Geez, that's hectic. My current car is by far the least fuel efficient vehicle I've ever owned, my previous car was a diesel passat, that thing you filled up and forgot about fuel. I once did 1300 km on a tank, fully loaded and not nursing the tank at all, one tank to plett and back, and that included driving around there for 4 days. And that was loaded for camping, even had to take the kids seats out and had them sitting on the blankets, that thing was loaded.
 
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