How to get more MPG out of a Ford Fiesta Ecoboost

AdrianC

He's suggesting that you must be sniffing glue to have come up with your conclusions...

agrinnall

AdrianC wrote: »

He's suggesting that you must be sniffing glue to have come up with your conclusions...

Ah, right. In which case everything else he says also makes perfect sense :rotfl:

Scrapit

agrinnall wrote: »

Your posts are become less comprehensible as this thread goes on. What does glue have to do with anything? And the rest of the post is just as peculiar. I can feel an Ignore coming on...

Gosh please don't, no really, my life would be so incomplete....
So you can't see a clear and obvious link between the same marque of car, the same type of driving and some shared experience? Really? I don't believe any one can be that thick. Unless they are on glue, then that explains a lot about that poster.

almillar

Is there not? Ok ill take your word for it. And nope, never did. Can't imagine that'd be good for an engine.

I was asking you the question - there was a question mark at the end. If you switch off start/stop, you don't think it's ever useful? Do you have a rough guide of how long the engine needs to be off before it's efficient?

Slowly this time: why. Quote. The . Euro. Regs? They don't relate to stop start.

There is (was) a test - an urban journey, an 'extra urban journey' and the two would be combined to give the combined figure. The start stop system would activate, and therefore save fuel, on the tests, especially the urban one.

How about same mark

OP has a Ford. So do you. If you think driving round in a different model of car is OK, your cold hard facts from your own testing go right out the window.

Scrapit

almillar wrote: »

I was asking you the question - there was a question mark at the end. If you switch off start/stop, you don't think it's ever useful? Do you have a rough guide of how long the engine needs to be off before it's efficient?

no why would you expect that?
I can't hold your hand through life. Sorry.

There is (was) a test - an urban journey, an 'extra urban journey' and the two would be combined to give the combined figure. The start stop system would activate, and therefore save fuel, on the tests, especially the urban one.

and? It's like you have a point but yet....

OP has a Ford. So do you. If you think driving round in a different model of car is OK, your cold hard facts from your own testing go right out the window.

If I think it's ok? What does that mean? Permissible? Comparible? What exactly makes my testing go out of any window?

almillar

I don't need you to hold my hand, as I say, I have my own experience of stop/start, and it doesn't agree with yours. It's annoying sometimes, and easier to override in a manual than an auto, for when you know you don't want it to activate, but I wouldn't just get in a car and immediately switch it off.
What you do means it will never activate. You never switch the engine off manually. So if you're sitting in a queue for 1 minute, you're burning fuel, whereas with stop/start, you might not have burnt that fuel. So can you explain, 100+ posts into this thread, WHY turning off stop/start actually saves you fuel?

Scrapit

almillar wrote: »

I don't need you to hold my hand, as I say, I have my own experience of stop/start, and it doesn't agree with yours. It's annoying sometimes, and easier to override in a manual than an auto, for when you know you don't want it to activate, but I wouldn't just get in a car and immediately switch it off.
What you do means it will never activate. You never switch the engine off manually. So if you're sitting in a queue for 1 minute, you're burning fuel, whereas with stop/start, you might not have burnt that fuel. So can you explain, 100+ posts into this thread, WHY turning off stop/start actually saves you fuel?

You want an engineering report? Why on earth would you expect an explanation? Insane. I don't know why, just that it DOES. That's what matters. And mid sentence capitals of course.

Herzlos

Scrapit wrote: »

You want an engineering report? Why on earth would you expect an explanation? Insane. I don't know why, just that it DOES. That's what matters. And mid sentence capitals of course.

You must have some idea. Since you're presumably the only one in the car when the stop/start is doing it's thing.

Scrapit

Herzlos wrote: »

You must have some idea. Since you're presumably the only one in the car when the stop/start is doing it's thing.

How would that work? Number of people in a vehicle is not proportional to interpretation. I'm reporting factually.

Herzlos

Scrapit wrote: »

How would that work? Number of people in a vehicle is not proportional to interpretation. I'm reporting factually.

My point is that no-one else has witnessed the behaviour of your stop/start system during your journey. If it's behaving incorrectly or struggling then you are literally the only one to witness it.


Since you've got thorough, consistent evidence that it's worse, you must have some inclination as to why.