120 miles on £20 petrol

[Deleted User]

Just done 120 miles today on £20 of petrol in my 1.4 206.

Good or bad? I'm undecided.

chunkychocky

That works out at 6 miles per £1. I have no idea if that is good or not for a petrol car.

I get 450 miles out of £52 of diesel, in my 2001 1.4 TD Polo. That is almost entirely about town miles, and the efficiency does increase if I do motorway driving. It works out at 8.65 miles per £1. Therefore, it sounds to me like 6 miles per £1 for a petrol car is pretty good.

vikingaero

If we assume you bought petrol at 132.9p/litre

Then £20/132.9=15.04 litres purchased.

15.04/4.54= 3.314 gallons

120 miles/3.314 = 36.20 mpg

36.20mpg would be poor for a 1.4 in extra urban conditions.

cyclonebri1

If I got that return with my frugal diesel car I'd be very dissapointed

I'm guessing 3 gallons?

200 miles for me, at a cost of no style of course

dartilov

I try to get 750 miles out of a full tank in my 2.0TDI Audi A4, I tend to do a lot of motorway and A road driving keeping it to 60-65.

It's a 65 litre tank at current price here (£135.9) = £88.35

So that's 11.78p per mile.

[Deleted User]

It was a mix of town, dual carriageway A roads, and NSL country roads.

Joe_Horner

Just over 36mpg - that's about what we get from our early '70s Daf 66 1300 coupe for overall average. But we get free road tax and £83 per year fully comp insurance to offset it

Rolandtheroadie

Was getting around 36 MPG in my Audi 80 Tdi. But I ran it on biodiesel with costs of around 90p a gallon so that offsets the road tax costs and the insurance as well. .

Think thats about 800 miles to £20.

Ultrasonic

You should be able to do better than 36 mpg - see here to get an idea what other drivers of the same car get:

http://www.honestjohn.co.uk/realmpg/peugeot/206-1998/14

Assuming there is nothing wrong with the car you might want to look at trying to drive more economically. Three main things to consider:

1) What speeds do you change up gears? Cars vary, but something like changing to 4th and 30 mph, and 5th at 40 mph is a good idea for economy. But don't do this if you're lugging the engine. You want to change up as early as your car is happy.

2) Driving at 60 mph on dual carriageways rather than 70 mph will improve economy.

3) Read the road ahead, so that you don't acceerate only to then have to brake hard.

Note: the 36 mpg estimate may not be very accurate. How have you worked out you jused £20 of fuel to travel 120 miles? To get a good idea of fuel economy you really want to fill the car up to 1st click on the pump and note the mileage (or zero any trip distance counter). Then drive until you need to fill up again (ideally when warning light comes on), then fill up again till first click, noting the volume of fuel put in and the mileage covered.

alastairq

Joe_Horner wrote: »

Just over 36mpg - that's about what we get from our early '70s Daf 66 1300 coupe for overall average. But we get free road tax and £83 per year fully comp insurance to offset it

Before anyone else asks....what do you do when the laggy band snaps?:):):):beer::D:cool:

Joe_Horner

alastairq wrote: »

Before anyone else asks....what do you do when the laggy band snaps?:):):):beer::D:cool:

Sh*t yourself (it sounds like a bomb going off) :rotfl:

All of the models except the 46 had two belts, so you just pull the broken one out and carry on with the other - both going together is unheard of as far as I know. In fact, if they're maintained it's very rare for them to break at all.

They have about a 40k life and only break if you let them run slack (tensioning is a 15 minute routine maintenance job), use ones that have been sitting for a very long time (same perishing and "setting" problems as any rubber parts), or carry on running them well past where they're worn out (they'll be squealing like crazy by then so you have no excuse).

You can change them by the side of the road or car park if you need to and happen to have spares in the boot. It takes about 30 - 40 minutes if you know what you're doing, so probably quicker than waiting for recovery if you need to, but it's not a nice job.

Better than trying to change a broken cambelt in the same situation though