Stickies for fuel consumption

[A13XDT]

I managed 64.6mpg in a 1.5Dci 3 door this weekend. Semi-combined, i.e 2 hours of motorway and a couple of trips through the city (in total about 200 miles). On just the motorway i managed to hit over 71mpg. Highest i've had over a full tank according to the dash was 67.3mpg on a trip to Plymouth, that was fully loaded with camping gear too. But I was really crusing to try max figures. My mothers 1.5Dci 3 door is currently sitting at 69.8mpg over 6000 miles. I'm glad I dont have to go in the car with her, she must crawl everywhere for that figure with rush hour traffic involved too. Both are the 80Bhp models.

Alex

[falkirk81]

My new 07 Megane seems to only be hovering around the 48mpg mark. Is this what I should expect? I mostly (90%) drive on the A1 to work 10 miles a day and set the cruise control to 70 mph for the journey.

Car is a 106 bhp, 1.5 dCi 2007 Megane.

[anth_dci]

try doing it without cruise control turned on.

[amulos]

my best ever for mpg was today, 56 (facelifted) plate 1.9dci megane.

went from reading to manchester and back, started with a full tank of diesel and finished with half. 61mpg! varied speeds and lots of stop start on the motroway on the way up.
had a boot full of luggage and my other half and 10 yrd son.

really pleased with the ecomony, have noticed a difference since the car has hit over 40k in miles, its now at 53k!

[sutty86]

managed 65mpg on friday from suffolk to leeds
cruised at around 65 as of the nightmare traffic....

filled up in leeds £60 and done 200miles so far telling me i have 600 left,
absolutly brilliant
booking a trip to disneyland paris, gonna take the car

[pacey]

Hi boys and girls

I have had my car sice xmas eve and the MPG is really poor! It is always around 26mpg over the last 3 days i have been changing before 2000rpm and i still can only het 27mpg!!!!

what could it be??? oh btw it is a 2lt 16v vvt

Thanks in advance, Pacey

[MéganeDynamique]

Yeh, that's normal... it's part of the package when you choose the biggest engine!

I've also got the 2.0 VVT and get about 29 MPG average, and I'm on motorways quite a bit.

Worth every penny though, the engine is a dream.

[pacey]

Yer I know that but the power is not too good!

[MéganeDynamique]

Doesn't sound right. When was the last service?

Perhaps it could do with a new air filter. Also, try adding some of that petrol additive such as REDEX. It cleans the injectors and boosted my fuel consumption to 41 MPG on a motorway run with 5 people in the car - And I've definitely noticed a decline since I stopped using it.

[pacey]

Thanks for that buddy!

Yer need to check it! It is not due for another 10k! So should be ok but well worth a try! What type of Redex would you recommend?? I had a Green Panel filter in my Leon would you recommend that? Any other thoughts would be good too!

Cheers Pacey

[mcdonnell77]

Well i get 32MPG from my 1.4 which is terrible considering the car has no power either. I will hopefully be getting a 1.5 dci because those MPG figures stated here are amazing in comparison to what i get.

[Scrooge]

On a steady run I get mid 30's for my 2 litre. Its a thirsty big beast but love my car to bits so will have to put up with it. I have started putting in Redex and will be putting in Slick 50 into the engine when I get paid next to give it a helping hand with the mpg.

Mind you most of my driving is about town as use my push bike for my commute to work so cant really complain in a way due to the driving conditions.

[Scrooge]

On a steady run I get mid 30's for my 2 litre. Its a thirsty big beast but love my car to bits so will have to put up with it. I have started putting in Redex and will be putting in Slick 50 into the engine when I get paid next to give it a helping hand with the mpg.

Mind you most of my driving is about town as use my push bike for my commute to work so cant really complain in a way due to the driving conditions.

[Fatsteve]

My 1.5dCi 106 Dynamique Sport Tourer has covered 96000 miles in just over 4 years and has never dropped below 50mpg. And I'm not an old farty either in case you were wondering!

[wanda]

good old 1.5