Hello everyone. I was wondering what was everybody getting fuel consumption wise. I have a manual diesel and am getting 28.8mpg on a good day.... is this normal?

Mine does around 35mpg, lots of short trips 4-5 miles but twice a week Mrs G drives a 70 mile round trip to work largly motorway driving.

try only driving it on bad days , economy should be better  At work
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The onboard computer, on my TD4 Manual, tells me 7.4 Litres / 100 Klms (about 31 MPG) on a 75/25 split of country roads and Motorways.

I do use the Cruise Control, quite a bit, on the Motorway and of late have wondered whether this affects my fuel consumption adversely.

Had SE diesel for 6 months, trip shows 7000, mixture of driving but primarily short journeys, indicator shows 29.3mpg I'm 5foot 15inch and 18stone. I have a tow bar fitted for show. In BLACK glorious BLACK. And going to Ewood tomorrow to see Rovers stuff Wolves.

Poor me! I drive an i6!!

RR

Normally I'm at 8.1 l/100 km. But I drove last month 2 times (1200 km) to the Netherlands (no hills ) 80% motorways consumption went down to 7.2 - 7.4 l/100 km. Freelander 2 SE 4Td Izmir Blue, Dog cage for Alaskan Malamute, iphone Navigon Navigator

mine is around 41 most of the time but on warm days it seems to hang around at 43. These are on a 60mph road but if i dropped to 50mph say in traffic the mpg would be up to 45


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The car is usually around 31 / 33 as it is mostly short trips around town.
The commercial is 34/36 as it is slightly longer trips.
On a recent run to Aberdeen and back the car returned 37, with an average speed of 63mph on the way up and 60mph on the way back. 2009 Grey HSE Auto
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Mine is an 09 auto, very short local tripround town journeys 29mpg, recently done some long motorway runs 400miles+ doing between 60 and 80 averaged 38mpg on computer. Nearly 7000 miles on the clock. 09 FL2 HSE auto Lago Grey
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Poor me! I drive an i6!!

RR

An i6 in the UK, wow that's rare  Stornoway Grey GS ... What a fine motor ... but not any more ... ... psst look at my gallery!
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I get 35 to 38mpg in my manual Td4, it's now got 4500 mile on it.

We went to Longleat in August, M1 - M42 - M5 and the computer was
reading 40 to 42 mpg, 70mph in 6th most of the way.

Shaun.

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Rangerider wrote:

Poor me! I drive an i6!!

RR

An i6 in the UK, wow that's rare

A volvo driver posting on an FL2 forum....thats rare  At work
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Mine is an SE auto which, when I first got it would return upwards of 38mpg on a motorway journey. Last weekend on a trip from Blackpool to Northampton and back it averaged 32.5mpg. I have not got a heavy right foot. It returns 29+mpg around town! Odd.

psychopic wrote:

Hello everyone. I was wondering what was everybody getting fuel consumption wise. I have a manual diesel and am getting 28.8mpg on a good day.... is this normal?

After doing 76000 over the last two years with mostly motorway driving I have averaged 41mpg in my manual diesel. If you have a very low mpg indication I think this could be quite simply down to when you reset the computer. ie... if you reset it from standing start and do short town journeys it will take quite a few miles for it to start going up to a realistic indication. The opposite is true too.... If you want to feel really good press the reset button on the motorway at about 60mph, take your foot off the accelerator and wait about 15 secs for it to reset the average, my highest mpg so far doing this is 999mpg. Totally useless but it certainly makes you feel good doing that many to the gallon The computer does take quite along time to work out it's average.
I think good mpg is truly down to driving style.

57 GS TD4 Mine always seems to be about 28mpg