I've always wondered this. Is it a case of emptying your fuel tank, putting X amount of fuel in, and then just driving until it runs out and working out your consumption from the distance travelled?
General How do people work out their MPG?
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Brim the tank full, drive as normal, when you next fill up brim it again. That make a note of how much fuel you put in and how many miles on that tank to calculate the MPG
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It seems so obvious now, cheers guys 
I'll have to get mine worked out one of these days, it seems to be drinking the petrol quicker than when I first got it. It'd be good to start keeping some stats just so I'd be able to make sure I'm not imagining it hehe
I'll have to get mine worked out one of these days, it seems to be drinking the petrol quicker than when I first got it. It'd be good to start keeping some stats just so I'd be able to make sure I'm not imagining it hehe
I've kept all my reciepts since I bought the car
I've done 7888kms in it and bought 784,43 litres of petrol, so about 10,05kms per litre.
Yeah I'd be embarressed too keeping all those receipts
But can agree that it's about 500kms* per tank before thinking I should fill up...failed once and was stuck on the side of the road, AA man put two gallons in and still no joy, taken to a garage on a flat bed, started at the third attempt - I have presumptiously assumed that the up down motion on and off the flat bed cleared any blockage. No loss of fuel consumption yet and its been a year or so.
* German import - car reads MPH but distance travelled is KM
These days its best not to work out your MPG as the goverment have now just pushed the fuel price so high its got well out of hand. £1.00 + per liter or £50 a tank !!!!! All in the name of saving the planet. Who the hell are they kidding.
I cant live close to my work as the houe prices are just so £££ so I have to drive. It takes about an hour in the morning and 40 mins coming home because of the A1 traffic (two lane road that should be a motorway by now). On a Sunday you can drive from my house to work in 30 mins!. It works out at about £7 a day in fuel, so to help with the cost I car share with a friend at work, he drives one day, I drive the next. My car is a 1600 VW Bora on a 55 plate so gives me 40MPG ish.
I work = pay taxes = got to get to work = have to have a car = have to buy fuel= £50 a tank
What about the train I hear you say! Well I can get a train from the station thats only 6-8 mins away from my house and that takes me to Welwyn Garden City Station thats 8-10 mins walk from my work. So why not I hear you say! Well it cost £9 a day and the service is crap, late and over crowded (Standing up for 30-40 mins is not fun). Would I get the train if it was better value and always on time, YES.
Conclusion:
Goverment should get off its cash hemoraging backside and build more roads, stop adding 20% every 3 years on the price of fuel in the name of being green. The UK is at war for god sake... how f**k**g green is that !?! Whats a tanks MPG these days and I am sure a depleted uranium shell is not that green :bang:
Anyway got to go, I have an hour of traffic to sit in so I can put a roof over my head and pay my taxes.
Rant over
I cant live close to my work as the houe prices are just so £££ so I have to drive. It takes about an hour in the morning and 40 mins coming home because of the A1 traffic (two lane road that should be a motorway by now). On a Sunday you can drive from my house to work in 30 mins!. It works out at about £7 a day in fuel, so to help with the cost I car share with a friend at work, he drives one day, I drive the next. My car is a 1600 VW Bora on a 55 plate so gives me 40MPG ish.
I work = pay taxes = got to get to work = have to have a car = have to buy fuel= £50 a tank
What about the train I hear you say! Well I can get a train from the station thats only 6-8 mins away from my house and that takes me to Welwyn Garden City Station thats 8-10 mins walk from my work. So why not I hear you say! Well it cost £9 a day and the service is crap, late and over crowded (Standing up for 30-40 mins is not fun). Would I get the train if it was better value and always on time, YES.
Conclusion:
Goverment should get off its cash hemoraging backside and build more roads, stop adding 20% every 3 years on the price of fuel in the name of being green. The UK is at war for god sake... how f**k**g green is that !?! Whats a tanks MPG these days and I am sure a depleted uranium shell is not that green :bang:
Anyway got to go, I have an hour of traffic to sit in so I can put a roof over my head and pay my taxes.
Rant over
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larkim
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Alternative conclusion; the Govt should put up the cost of fuel by about 50% so that it becomes cheaper for you to travel by train than by car. Let's hope not, eh!!
Matt
Never really kept an eye on my mpg 'cos up until last Wednesday I had a company fuel card!! - averaged at about 28-32 mpg give or take..........
Obviously if I 'ragged it' everywhere that went down.................a lot!
Obviously if I 'ragged it' everywhere that went down.................a lot!
The train does not really work for me and its almost door to door, so how the hell other people would get to work without a car is beyond me.
We all buy petrol because we need it to function in day to day life not because its a fun thing to have and play with, something to show your m8s and all that stuff.
:bang:
Anyone got £50 I need to drive home after work.
HEHEHHEHEHEH
1600 Petrol is just to expensive to run, the next car will be a 1.1D
We all buy petrol because we need it to function in day to day life not because its a fun thing to have and play with, something to show your m8s and all that stuff.
:bang:
Anyone got £50 I need to drive home after work.
HEHEHHEHEHEH
1600 Petrol is just to expensive to run, the next car will be a 1.1D
1600 Petrol is just to expensive to run, the next car will be a 1.1D
a vauxhall nova 1.1 ... to mod ?
now, THAT has been done before, and is still being done daily
ChrissyDub
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Well there is a nice display that shows me.... resetable at any time lol usually just after filing the tank! Keeping an eye on that really does hellp me
larkim
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Not a diesel, but a 700cc Smart Brabus Roadster might be a step in the right (fuel efficient) direction....1600 Petrol is just to expensive to run, the next car will be a 1.1D
Matt
Well, I have to agree with the Doc. In economic terms it is well known that petrol is inelastic in demand so putting tax on it is never going to reduce consumption.
When I was in the UK using the train was a nightmare, don't think I ever got a seat (there is a myth which says that in the center of the train there are such things, but I've never met anyone who's seen them).
Back to mpg, 500k seems pretty good, less if I'm in traffic and not being light on the accelerator, 550 on a good run. I often run until the light comes on which I'm told is not a good thing
When I was in the UK using the train was a nightmare, don't think I ever got a seat (there is a myth which says that in the center of the train there are such things, but I've never met anyone who's seen them).
Back to mpg, 500k seems pretty good, less if I'm in traffic and not being light on the accelerator, 550 on a good run. I often run until the light comes on which I'm told is not a good thing
I had a 4.0l Cherokee Jeep at the start of the year, at Feb fuel prices it cost me £70-£75 to fill up and at best would do 21 mpg, most of the time it returned about 18 mpg..............every time I filled up with petrol I used to choke on the fact that only about 30% of the price was for petrol - the rest was tax.
Don't get me ranting on this topic or we will be here for ever!!
The fact that the tax on petrol is not being pumped back into the transport ecosystem in the UK sticks in my throat, the privatisation of bus and rail services mean that these are no longer public services but revenue streams for VC's (when public transport routes were state owned if a route became 'less travelled' then a smaller bus/train was deployed to the route - now they are simply dropped), the fact that the government hide behind the eco argument (without ever backing it up with hard facts) instead of just admitting that the motorist are a soft target), tax on the already over-inflated insurance premiums - the government are, and have for years, failed to deal with the root cause of the issues opting to blame those of us who have to use our cars as the UK public infrastructure is so poor and unreliable..................we are a two car household as it is impossible to live where I do without 2 cars - we have one bus an hour in each direction either to the local Tesco or bus garage, from there you then have to catch another bus to get anywhere, a five mile trip could conceivably consist of 3 buses and over an hours travel!!!
I would say rant over but have not started.......
Don't get me ranting on this topic or we will be here for ever!!
The fact that the tax on petrol is not being pumped back into the transport ecosystem in the UK sticks in my throat, the privatisation of bus and rail services mean that these are no longer public services but revenue streams for VC's (when public transport routes were state owned if a route became 'less travelled' then a smaller bus/train was deployed to the route - now they are simply dropped), the fact that the government hide behind the eco argument (without ever backing it up with hard facts) instead of just admitting that the motorist are a soft target), tax on the already over-inflated insurance premiums - the government are, and have for years, failed to deal with the root cause of the issues opting to blame those of us who have to use our cars as the UK public infrastructure is so poor and unreliable..................we are a two car household as it is impossible to live where I do without 2 cars - we have one bus an hour in each direction either to the local Tesco or bus garage, from there you then have to catch another bus to get anywhere, a five mile trip could conceivably consist of 3 buses and over an hours travel!!!
I would say rant over but have not started.......
Actually I lied: I don't keep the reciepts; I only keep them until I get home and then put them into Excel
Ask the Doc where he keeps all of his car stuff.....
In this site you can see what other B consume
http://www.spritmonitor.de/en/overview/16-Fiat/130-Barchetta.html
http://www.spritmonitor.de/en/overview/16-Fiat/130-Barchetta.html
The garage
Doc?
Kinda, but more specific.........
I have a safe for all the important stuff for the car and every receipt is in file binders. My car history/ paperwork over the last 8 years is in 4 files so far (About 200 receipts / bills in all). I know sad !! LOL
