Does air con really eat your fuel?

buglawton

pimento wrote: »

This is great news for me who has just (Sunday just gone) bought an i30 and used to drive a Ka.

Well try some tests yourself this summer. I plan to reset the consumption gauge each time then try measurements.

vaio

matty538 wrote: »

.......brought up the real time fuel usage.
So just idling with no aircon on my car uses between .9 an 1L of fuel an hour, with aircon on my car uses between 1.2 and 1.3L an hour.

Altarf wrote: »

........So about 45p per hour is a number that makes more sense to me than x% change in mpg.

That's pretty good agreement between these two