The 5,000+ mile average MPG thread

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c1tro said:
It seems to me that you are the troll hanging around a thread which is of no interest to you.
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It would be an interesting thread without the bizarre "trip computer only" restriction which means people like me can't contribute because mine resets at 2000 miles. Nevermind the fact I could contribute with 20000 miles worth of more accurately tracked fuel consumption data.
 
Both are shown on the pic so it doesn't matter. List will only have mpg for fuel use.

Kenai said:
It would be an interesting thread without the bizarre "trip computer only" restriction which means people like me can't contribute because mine resets at 2000 miles. Nevermind the fact I could contribute with 20000 miles worth of more accurately tracked fuel consumption data.
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That's a different issue which i didn't appreciate. I think if the 2000 trip obc reset is a feature with other cars too we could change the minimum milage.
 
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Well mine is a 15 year old VW and I'm sure someone with a newer Audi mentioned the same thing so I would suggest you're probably wiping out most VAG cars for a start. That's ignoring the fact mine reports nonsense, unless you think I've genuinely been able to achieve 48mpg in an old Golf GTI 1.8T :p
 
330i N52 manual, a mixture of driving over about 7k miles.


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Kenai said:
That's ignoring the fact mine reports nonsense,
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I've yet to own a car that was completely accurate with regard to fuel use. The Jag is about 10% optimistic. My old 750i was very, very optimistic by sometimes over 20%.
Fuel computer is a good rough guide but unless comparing cars of the exact same model it's completely pointless. An A4 might be 5% over and a 3-series might be 5% under. All within reasonable tolerance but it means the comparison is garbage. The onlyreasonably accurate way to measure this is to use the pumped amount of fuel and the odometer readout. Even then though, the odometer might be out by 5% either way and so again, it's hard to compare.
 
In fairness, my Corolla was pretty spot on. If it said 30MPG, you'd actually done 29.XMPG

Highest I saw it was 44.6MPG, at the pump it looked like it was actually about 43MPG
 
I am aware that having a 100 or 1000 mile rule would be more attractive but that would not represent real life mpg in most situations.
 
Wow that Focus ST MPG is poor... Especially for a 4 banger turbo!

Do you absolutely cane it 100% of the time?
 
Acme said:
Wow that Focus ST MPG is poor... Especially for a 4 banger turbo!

Do you absolutely cane it 100% of the time?
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Don't forget he lives on a tiny island, every journey will be a short stop/start affair, no sitting at 60mph on a dual carriageway for 30 miles, it wouldn't require much enthusiasm coupled with that sort of driving environment to get ultra low MPG.
 
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