The Original i30 Owners Club
GENERAL STUFF => GENERAL DISCUSSIONS => Car Related (any make, any model) => Topic started by: AlanHo on April 03, 2018, 20:37:45
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My wife Libby does not accept me giving her advice easily - she thinks I am getting at her. I guess she has a mild persecution complex
What niggles me is that every time she uses the car - the average economy falls by a few mpg. I know why - she presses too hard on the loud pedal when accelerating, does not anticipate ahead that she is likely to be slowing or stopping and uses the brakes to stop. Thus defeating the benefits of having a hybrid.
On Monday we visited friends 42 miles (68km) away and I drove. I decided to make it a driving lesson and gave a running commentary on when and how I was using the brake and the accelerator, how I was anticipating the road ahead and taking my foot off early to let the car gradually slow to a junction which regenerates the battery. I explained that the perfect drive was when you never had to use the brake, accelerated gently from a standing start and never allowed people tailgating you to cause you to drive any faster. All things she is frankly not good at. When I returned home the car had averaged an indicated 61.7 mpg (4.6L/100k)
Today she had the car to go out with her sister and did a round trip of 71 miles - 75% being on the M42 and M5 motorways. It was teeming with rain when she got home and me, being chivalrous, put the car in the garage for her. When I switched the engine off I noted that she had averaged a theoretical 64.9 mpg (4.3 l/100k) over the 71 miles (114 km).
I guess my preaching bore fruit at last. She was really chuffed at having been more economical than me. I didn't spoil it by telling her that my journey was in heavy holiday traffic in a high wind and with the temperature at 6oC whereas today her trip was mainly motorway in light wind and a temperature of 12oC
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:goodjob2:
Well done, a lot of people really should learn to anticipate their drivin better.
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I would think that being able to remove your teeth before giving such advise would be a prerequisite.
Giving helpful advise would lead to a trip to the dentist in my house.
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I would think that being able to remove your teeth before giving such advise would be a prerequisite.
Giving helpful advise would lead to a trip to the dentist in my house.
Oh yeah.
I know where you're coming from.
On the other hand, I seem to attract plenty of "helpful advice". :crazy1:
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:wts: you are a very brave man Alan!
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I can relate.
I routinely find Firty registering 6s when Mrs G has been driving it, then I bring it down into the 4s. :rolleyes:
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I can relate.
I routinely find Firty registering 6s when Mrs G has been driving it, then I bring it down into the 4s. :rolleyes:
Is that because she takes it over 2000 rpm ? :lol:
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I remember having an awkward conversation when I discovered that my wife didn't know that she had a 5th gear in her car of 5 years. (It just gets me from A to B is her attitude.)
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I remember having an awkward conversation when I discovered that my wife didn't know that she had a 5th gear in her car of 5 years. (It just gets me from A to B is her attitude.)
Haha.
Many years ago I worked with a guy, mid 40,s or so who had a Gemini.
Still lived with his Mum.
I took him somewhere in my car one day, a five speed manual.
He was amazed when I selected fifth gear.
He knew his Gemini had it but didn't know what would happen if he selected it.
It was his first car and he'd had it for about three years.