[gillyj]

Hi,  I just want to ask other owners of this model what is their average km to a tank,  I have never really paid much attention to it, but my car has recently been driving a bit funny and I am only getting around 400-450 km per tank,  I really thought I was getting more than 500 km per tank,  the car seems to be over revving before it changes gears and sometimes has a really clunky gear change and from cold when I start engine it revvs quite heavy and idles at 2000 before falling back to 1500, I have taken to local dealer who says nothing wrong

Thanks

[Dazzler]

Hi Gill and Welcome,

I can see you are in Australia (but no idea which city?)

What year is your i30 and what mileage? Sounds like a transmission issue to me and I would recommend getting a 2nd opinion from maybe another dealer ..

Your mileage (range) does seem low to me although we have a manual. Obviously it will vary a lot depending on whether you do lots of stop start town driving or mainly on the highway...

[gillyj]

Thanks for you reply,  I have just over 30000 on click,  just had it serviced 5 weeks ago and problem started about 3 weeks ago! 
Ps I'm in Bundaberg

[Dazzler]

Thanks for you reply,  I have just over 30000 on click,  just had it serviced 5 weeks ago and problem started about 3 weeks ago! 
Ps I'm in Bundaberg

We have a lot of active Members in Queensland ( We were in Bundaberg for a flying visit late last year - looked nice what we saw)

There is an Auto Transmission issue with some (mainly) more recent cars (2010/11) so worth a double check .. 30,000 is low though (Would be covered under warranty if any thing wrong, of course)   

[Phil №❶]

I have taken to local dealer who says nothing wrong

Thanks

Probably, the "No fault codes returned" excuse again, they really need to stop doing that. If someone brings a car in that has a fault big enough to take the time to go in and report it, then they should look until the fault is identified, not plug in a computer analyzer and say it's all ok.

[Dazzler]

I have taken to local dealer who says nothing wrong

Thanks

Probably, the "No fault codes returned" excuse again, they really need to stop doing that. If someone brings a car in that has a fault big enough to take the time to go in and report it, then they should look until the fault is identified, not plug in a computer analyzer and say it's all ok.

Very well said Phil...

[Shambles]

... they should look until the fault is identified, not plug in a computer analyzer and say it's all ok.

I sometimes wonder if these dealerships simply do what you and I can do - ie read out any codes in the ECU, rather than look at the "pending codes" which are those stored pending automatic reset.

[Phil №❶]

Quite possibly, I haven't had to report anything at all yet, but if I did I'd hate to be standing there with a techie saying "there's nothing wrong, no fault codes" 

It seems this type of service varies a lot, coz recently we had four techs reportedly in a car to find a rattle, that's very good service. 

[Doggie 1]

I have a friend (true  ) who I caught up with yesterday and he has a 2011 2.0 litre automatic i30 and I asked him what he was getting per tank.
He said in a mix of urban and highway driving he gets around 500 km which he wasn't too happy with either.
I thought I'd better not tell him that I'm getting double that from the diesel but then I thought, what the heck, I will. So I did. 
He wishes he'd bought a diesel.
I do think that 500 kms is rather low for the petrol though. 
If the tank is 53 litres and you got somewhere around 8l/100 km (the combined cycle is @ 7.7 from memory??) then that would give you 650 km + per tank.
I know that Jeff isn't a leadfoot - just drives normally and sedately.

[Phil №❶]

Poor Jeff