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Posts: 30 Thanks: 1 Trader Rating: 0 ![]() | Twinair - Rubbish mpg with City Driving Hello there Have had my Twinair for a fortnight. Driving around London (and using Stop Start) I'm only getting 22.3mpg. That's rubbish isn't it compared to all the advertised figures? And really rubbish against my old 1.2 which averaged about 37mpg driving in the same conditions. Have tried in both Eco and normal mode - and the figures average the same. I know there have been various comments about mpg on here - but would be interested to know what others have averaged driving in London, or similar city driving. PS - the high pitch noise has disappeared...
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![]() | Re: Twinair - Rubbish mpg with City Driving How many miles on the clock? I found my MA to be fairly rubbish (35mpg) untill i had clocked up 6000 miles, and it has been gradually improving ever since (currently 40.1mpg). 22.3 is the worst i have heard from a twinair.
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Join Date: Jun 2010
Posts: 3,632 Thanks: 237 Trader Rating: 0 ![]() | Re: Twinair - Rubbish mpg with City Driving Hello there Have had my Twinair for a fortnight. Driving around London (and using Stop Start) I'm only getting 22.3mpg. That's rubbish isn't it compared to all the advertised figures? And really rubbish against my old 1.2 which averaged about 37mpg driving in the same conditions. Have tried in both Eco and normal mode - and the figures average the same. I know there have been various comments about mpg on here - but would be interested to know what others have averaged driving in London, or similar city driving. PS - the high pitch noise has disappeared...
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Posts: 1,117 Thanks: 91 Trader Rating: 0 ![]() | Re: Twinair - Rubbish mpg with City Driving It sounds very poor, but as said new engines do use more fuel because there is more internal friction. For economy the engine speed needs to be kept absolutely as low as possible and also note a cold engine will use twice as much fuel as a warm engine. I would suggest taking it for a drive and running it for say 30 minutes at 60mph on a conveniently quiet motorway and see what that gives. Hope that helps.
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Posts: 332 Thanks: 23 Trader Rating: 0 ![]() | Re: Twinair - Rubbish mpg with City Driving I live at Putney bridge and have been driving a 1.3mjd (95) for about a year now. Fuel consumption isnt close to being as good as claimed but as many say on here gets better over time. I'm still only at 4k miles. Motorway driving at 85ish averages out at 48mpg, it's always been about that. Town driving all depends on how many times i start/ stop and i think the worst ive had is about 35mpg. Last friday i had a run to Tesco's at new malden, approx 2/3 of the distance is 40/50mph dual carriageway (A3) and came back with a 61mpg average. The trip computer is normally pretty accurate but i do check from time to time, it seems to range from 2mpg underestimated to 1mpg overestimated. What i do is reset trip A on every tank and then calculate the mpg every time and I fill up to the first click. Trip B is for when i want to know the mpg for a particular trip. 22mpg sounds far too low to me.
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Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: manchester by the sea
Posts: 74 Thanks: 1 Trader Rating: 0 ![]() | Re: Twinair - Rubbish mpg with City Driving No car ever gets the advertised figures. I have a Smart CDI Diesel advertised as getting 80 MPG,however i only get 60 MPG. All the other owners are also getting 60 MPG on the Smart Forums. I used to have a Panda 100 HP which only got 35 MPG,so i am very happy with 60 MPG in the Manchester traffic.
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Posts: 3,632 Thanks: 237 Trader Rating: 0 ![]() | Re: Twinair - Rubbish mpg with City Driving I'm no Stephen Hawking but 60/80 seems a lot better proportion than 22/69. I'm sure things will improve for the OP as his engine loosens up, but it is warm weather now and 22mpg is hideous.
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Posts: 2,077 Thanks: 117 Trader Rating: 0 ![]() | Re: Twinair - Rubbish mpg with City Driving Remove lead from the right shoe ![]() Seriously - the TA is a fun engine, so sounds good when thrashed, and this destroys fuel economy.
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Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: New Forest
Posts: 556 Thanks: 80 Trader Rating: 0 ![]() | Re: Twinair - Rubbish mpg with City Driving We're not in the city but have to contend with the town up the valley which can get pretty busy and never have we got as low as the 20s average. Imagine there is a pressure operated hand grenade under the right pedal! ![]()
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Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Bit south in Devon like
Posts: 1,926 Thanks: 152 Trader Rating: 0 ![]() | Re: Twinair - Rubbish mpg with City Driving No car ever gets the advertised figures. I have a Smart CDI Diesel advertised as getting 80 MPG,however i only get 60 MPG. All the other owners are also getting 60 MPG on the Smart Forums. I used to have a Panda 100 HP which only got 35 MPG,so i am very happy with 60 MPG in the Manchester traffic. ![]() In addition, the way the TwinAir has been marketed up until now means that it SHOULD be significantly better than the 1.2 in terms of average fuel consumption. So far it seems to have fallen short in this area.
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Posts: 1,457 Thanks: 21 Trader Rating: 0 ![]() | Re: Twinair - Rubbish mpg with City Driving I have the 500 1.2 Dual logic at the moment and it get according to the computer 44mpg on mostly country lanes and town driving. It's done less than 3K miles. I'll be honest I haven't even got my Discovery 3 auto down to 22mpg since I have had it and that weighs about 2.5 tonnes and is a V6 diesel.
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Posts: 9,196 Thanks: 992 Trader Rating: 0 ![]() | Re: Twinair - Rubbish mpg with City Driving ... but I think the main problem lies with the fact that the consumption levels many TwinAir owners have posted on here are a long way short of what is expected ... ...the way the TwinAir has been marketed up until now means that it SHOULD be significantly better than the 1.2 in terms of average fuel consumption. So far it seems to have fallen short in this area. On the basis of FIAT's marketing and published figures, most people would reasonably assume a TwinAir would be more economical than a 1.2 petrol - and from what many of you are posting it would seem that the opposite is true. A former 1.2 owner getting 37mpg who bought a TwinAir primarily because their FIAT salesman told them it would be more economical than the 1.2, and then found their economy had dropped to 22mpg would IMO have a reasonable claim of misrepresentation against the selling garage. Robin - what's your verdict on this one? |
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Posts: 9,824 Thanks: 373 Trader Rating: 0 ![]() | Re: Twinair - Rubbish mpg with City Driving It sounds very poor, but as said new engines do use more fuel because there is more internal friction. For economy the engine speed needs to be kept absolutely as low as possible and also note a cold engine will use twice as much fuel as a warm engine. I would suggest taking it for a drive and running it for say 30 minutes at 60mph on a conveniently quiet motorway and see what that gives. Hope that helps.
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Posts: 3,632 Thanks: 237 Trader Rating: 0 ![]() | Re: Twinair - Rubbish mpg with City Driving If the salesman made the statement as one of fact, definitely a viable claim for misrep. The dealership would obviously try to say that it was just opinion or puffery or the like but I think they would lose. I suspect that if a county court judge saw evidence of figures that bad, then provided he accepted that the salesman had said the economy would better a 1.2, then the claim would be made out. That would mean that you could hand the keys back or go for damages. Jolly interesting to work out how much you'd get: presumably the additional cost of owning the Twinair (compared to the 1.2) over the expected period of ownership (taking into account finance costs etc and fuel as well as extra insurance etc) less the amount by which its future value exceeds that of a 1.2. Incidentally, any attempt by the dealership to say that the Twinair is more "fun" (and so reduce the damages because you are getting more car for your money, not just supposedly better economy) should fail because a car purchase contract is not a "contract of enjoyment" like a holiday contract where those sort of things get thrown into the mix. So maybe that's the answer: buy a fun Twinair, then sue and recover the additional cost beyond that of owning a 1.2! Won't apply to you FF members however as you now all know how pants the Twinair economy is, so you will not have relied on the misrep in the first place!
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