Is 100 miles from £10 of petrol reasonable?

rosscobley

Sorry i live in wales cant help on that one. Find a good diesel garage. If they have been messing with the pump it could well be set wrong or the cold start could be stuck on.

Horlock

I've got a 900cc yamaha xj900 diversion (that is a motorbike for those who don't know) and I also get 100miles for £10 - bit depressing - but blinking fast by comparison to most cars - though nothing on a sports bike.

It really sucks to find that I could drive a big family size car and use less petrol. Still I do have more fun getting to work and get there in almost half the time of my collegues.

LizEstelle

Wow. Have been away for a day and wasn't expecting to come back to a thread this long.

Thanks for all the comments. Not sure I'm much the wiser but I can see it's a more complicated matter than I was hoping... obviously, there's no magic button I can press!

LizEstelle

Horlock wrote:

It really sucks to find that I could drive a big family size car and use less petrol. Still I do have more fun getting to work and get there in almost half the time of my collegues.

Yes, but you'd be able to take three other people...

mikey-mike_2

sound like a pump problem to me, assuming it's not actually leaking fuel

Take it to a specialist diesel place (lucas/cav/bosch agents are normally pretty good)

chilli_dog

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Midmac

I have a 1.2 corsa and get 80-90 miles from a tenner

MerseyLad

Ive got a 51 Clio 1.2 16V and it does between 38-42 MPG depending on a good thrashing or not.

I drive 50/50 between long A roads and motorway, and built up large town and city.

On a full tank [£35 to fill] I get about 420 miles.

Usually.

jockey1

I have a '99 Corsa Sport 1.4 16v slightly modified and it does about 25-28mpg, my other car is a '00 Mitsubishi Carisma 1.6 and it does about 45mpg. Similar age but Mits is bigger in size and bigger engine. Size doesn't matter.

littlereddevil

I have a brand new volvo s40 se and only get 34 mpg
very poor I think
it is a 1.8