Mondeo 2.0 fuel economy?

I'd say about 70% of my driving has been town driving and the remaining 30% is motorway stuff (only about 80mph, nothing silly)

I still think it's a bit low though, gonna get a new air filter and plugs at the weekend to see if that helps.
 
eidolon said:
I'd say about 70% of my driving has been town driving and the remaining 30% is motorway stuff (only about 80mph, nothing silly)

I still think it's a bit low though, gonna get a new air filter and plugs at the weekend to see if that helps.
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I would say my driving is around the same ratio as this, possibly more town driving and a full tank gets me consistently 300-330 miles.

I did a few tests with Tesco 99ron and could only manage 250miles per tank with that stuff so am sticking to regular olde 95ron.

I think that's an average around 25-27MPG.

Did you use regular 95ron?
 
A service might be your friend! If that fails then bung a bit of redex or similar in the fuel. ;)

The exhaust isn't blowing something cronic is it? That might be killing your mpg
 
Cheap, old cars get crap fuel economy. It's something you live with and offset against the fact your car cost a week's wages. Of course the cold weather probably isn't helping either.

A full service should make a bit of a difference. I used to get around 400 miles (mostly motorway at 90-100mph) from my 2.0l Mondeo 'back in the day'.
 
I'll be doing about 200 miles of motorway driving at the weekend so I'll see how much of a difference that makes. I just reckon its the combination of old car, cold weather and mainly town driving that's causing the crap economy.
 
Adz said:
Cheap, old cars get crap fuel economy. It's something you live with and offset against the fact your car cost a week's wages. Of course the cold weather probably isn't helping either.

A full service should make a bit of a difference. I used to get around 400 miles (mostly motorway at 90-100mph) from my 2.0l Mondeo 'back in the day'.
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That's not entirely true. I think you need to mod that to "cheap, old, crap cars that haven't been looked after get pants fuel economy". !!!!!!
 
eidolon said:
I'll be doing about 200 miles of motorway driving at the weekend so I'll see how much of a difference that makes. I just reckon its the combination of old car, cold weather and mainly town driving that's causing the crap economy.
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Could well be but it's always good to service! I presume you are happy to do this yourself on an old mondeo? I remember town driving did absolutely destroy fuel economy on my mk1 mondeo. However, it's still much better than driving a 1.8TD mondeo!! O M G :D
 
teaboy5 said:
Is it petrol? The petrol one is 55 and dont forget the extra you can get filling it up till it over flows.
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My Mk2 2.0 Black top usually gets around 27 - 30 mpg and that is doing mostly urban driving with some dual carriage twice a week, but only for about 18 miles of dual carriageway driving. I usually do around 100 - 130 in a normal routine driving and get around 310 - 330 miles. On a run on motorway mostly, I can get 380 - 400, maybe slightly more.

Mondeo's are not really town cars, they perform better on motorways, as they are an heavy car and big engines don't like being in 2nd and 3rd for fuel economy.
 
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