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Just before you ask. The journey to work I use Motorway which goes in an arc whereas going home I use the A roads which travels in a straight line. The reason I use the motorway is for convenience in the morning because my trip takes me past several schools and you get caught up in the the school run 4x4's, say no more.
Quote from: eye30 on March 19, 2010, 19:19:38Just before you ask. The journey to work I use Motorway which goes in an arc whereas going home I use the A roads which travels in a straight line. The reason I use the motorway is for convenience in the morning because my trip takes me past several schools and you get caught up in the the school run 4x4's, say no more.So you couldn't really refer to that as a round trip to work and home (more of a half round trip... )
and can't understand why I keep geting less mileage but the readout keeps saying 7.4lp100
I have an auto and just filled up my fourth tank with 2100 ks on the clock and I get a reading of 7.4l per 100Ks. I got 750k 1st tank, 700 the 2nd and 650 the 3rd and now it readout says that I will get 600 for the 4th. Air is on all the time and most of the driving have been highway at 100 with about a 1/4 city driving. I don't pussyfoot but am not an agressive driver either.Was hopeing it would be better than this by and can't understand why I keep geting less mileage but the readout keeps saying 7.4lp100it took my auto diesel 10000 km before i got 1000km to the tank i do not go slow i have 30000 km now and still get the same 6.2 l per 100 km
Many thanks, yes I know I am not alone in getting below average mpg and it is definitely not my driving.
My i30 1.6 crdi 6 speed is relatively new and only just covered 1500 miles, I have only used it on long trips so far to our caravan in wales and at best have achieved 47mpg, worst been 43mpg, this was doing 70 mph on motorway and 60 araound the country lanes, and literally tickling the accelerator, this was calculated via brimming the tank method.I too do find it a bit disappointing as my focus 1.6 tdci would achieve on the same trip an average of 54.6 mpg !I am hoping that this is down to a tight engine and hope that it will improve with more miles on it, so lofty uk your not on your own !
Try and fill it to the brim and then Hold the trip button until the mileage re-sets also do the same with the trip meter. See how far you go until the the distance to empty goes to -- (roughly 50 km left)