The 5,000+ mile average MPG thread

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Same as fox. I reset one trip every fill and the other gets reset at the beginning of a major trip. There's no way I can comply with your rules which are quite frankly silly.
Averaging around 25mpg at the moment.
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Reset after each refill or before long journey are not representative of real life consumption. Although measurements using other applications are useful and under certain conditions more accurate, in order to keep the thread tidy only posts with a photo of the trip computer will be included in the leader table.
 
c1tro said:
Reset after each refill or before long journey are not representative of real life consumption. Although measurements using other applications are useful and under certain conditions more accurate, in order to keep the thread tidy only posts with a photo of the trip computer will be included in the leader table.
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that is a fair way of doing it, i always noticed on the skoda while the "last 20 miles" counter may read as high as 74mpg (my personal record for a proper drive, did once beat it with 99mpg but that was an entirely downhill short trip), yet the "100k average" trip always hovered at 55mpg.

current only has long term, which i havent bothered changing but has sat consistently at 30 since i bought it and reset all the trips.
 
So the leader table will be you then?

A bit arbitrary a requirement. I also reset my trip every fill. But do track it all in Fuelly. But I guess since it's not a 5000 mile trip, my 40k+ average of lpg logging in my 530d will be irrelevant. Awesome.
 
c1tro said:
Reset after each refill or before long journey are not representative of real life consumption. Although measurements using other applications are useful and under certain conditions more accurate, in order to keep the thread tidy only posts with a photo of the trip computer will be included in the leader table.
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Then you are going to sit in a 'leader table' on your own because nobody has 5000 miles worth of trip computer.

Resetting every fill and recording this provides the same data anyway.
 
My car has a lifetime FCD. Fuel consumption display.

Currently showing 66.9MPG over 262,000 miles.

My road trip app has logged 74,800 miles @ 65.6mpg.

I win?

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Ask me in about another 500 miles , see my fuelly so far. 26 mpg ish at the moment.

Tracked every single fill up since i got the car new in Sept 2016. Using V Power all the time
 
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I'm not going to do a 5k reset and if I do it on the other computer i'll forget ;)

Best I can do is my last three months which is pretty close to 5k

 
I once managed 38mpg in my V70 T5 whilst travelling at a constant 50mph through roadworks on the M5 for about 15 miles. This is not representative of the cars typical fuel consumption.....[edit] which is about 24 around London, only typically rising to about 28 when driving on the motorway (with gusto).
 
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Thinking about it, even if I had a photo of my lifetime MPG for my A4, at best it would show 1999.9 miles, as it rolls round to 0 again after that.
 
I reset my odometer after every fill, but the MPG count is reset independently of that. And I haven't touched that in probably over a year, which is about about 18k miles at a guess. Last I checked, it was reading about 35mpg
 
I don't have an image from the trip (and one of my cars doesn't even have a trip computer anyway) but I have Excel records for both my current cars.

Saab 9-5 Aero Estate Auto: 26500 miles: 29.4mpg
Lotus Elise 111S (S1): 11500 miles: 40.2mpg
 
Alas my car's trip computer is a bit crap and will only display a 3 figure mileage readout and it also won't prove that I reset the mpg figure at the same time as the mileage.

However, I last reset it all back in I think July 2015 on 94k miles when the battery was last disconnected - had clutch and DMF done back then and for whatever reason the garage that did it disconnected the battery. Perhaps they saw the dashcam and were paranoid that I was recording everything but who knows. It's now on 145k miles so I've done 51k miles in that car in that time and the average MPG is at 54.3. Pretty good going, but then it's somewhat unsurprising since it spends most of its life on a motorway.
 
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