Help-VERY POOR fuel economy on Peugot 106xnd-32.3mpg???!

Pew_Pew_Pew_Lasers!

Seems fair enough to me. Winter diesel + all the electics buzzing away + increased drag due to water and ice on the road = reduced mpg.

Check your tyre pressures, they might be a bit low.

skiddlydiddly

My mpg has dropped 10-15% in this cold weather as I am letting it idle to warm up while I clear the windows.Also my driving style changes in this weather so that's affecting it also.

DEBTMONKEY1A

Hi all.....car is kept idiling for up to 10 minutes as it frosts on the INSIDE (!)....also i'm running a 150v car heater through the cigarette lighter as heater matrix is clogged+ usually radio too!!!!!

Think mikey72 may have a point re: pump cutting off too early/late-will re-test mpg after say300-400 miles...

Hintza

I'm down from a normal (pootling around not long run) 22mpg to just over 18mpg. (So quit moaning.......:rotfl:)

OP you shoud expect 10%-20% more once the weather improves.

johnson293

Last winter, I had a Renault Clio 1.5 DCi.

My average economy was 60mpg, but during the winter months it dropped to 50mpg with the same kind of driving.

Once the weather improved, it got back to 60mpg - so the cold will be a factor, but I doubt its to only factor to be making such a drop in economy.

shortchanged_2

Have you considered the possibility that the fuel delivered at the pump was not as much as it should have been?

skiddlydiddly

You mean those calibrated pumps which deliver metered fuel that the company could get into a lot of bother if they fiddled with it?I doubt it.

getmore4less

63 odd miles done) until nozzle 'clicked' again & worked out fuel economy. Was very surprised to see economy of 32 & a bit MPG

Say 2 gallons, 9.09 litres not realy enough to do a MPG test do a full tank

It was just over 9 litres you put in? best to check

hartcjhart

dont forget that diesel 'fizzies' up while fuelling,when the pump clicks off wait for a few seconds and you can then get a lot more in

mikey72

hartcjhart wrote: »

dont forget that diesel 'fizzies' up while fuelling,when the pump clicks off wait for a few seconds and you can then get a lot more in

That's what I was thinking, could easily be a difference of a couple of litres in the filler between the first fill and the second, with different pumps.
Ours is fairly similar mpg both winter and summer.