dpr59
Member
Got mine down to 18.3mpg in 5th.
Had to try hard. Not sure this is the main purpose of the trip computer, but it's more fun.
Had to try hard. Not sure this is the main purpose of the trip computer, but it's more fun.
General Instant consumption.
- Thread starter dpr59
- Start date
Currently reading:
General Instant consumption.
reprobate
New member
I prefer it when it goes up to 99.9 on the overrun!
smifton
Member
lowest mine has done is 19.4 in 5th on the motorway.
tut tut, think of the poor little fluffy bunnies your killing through global waming lol
is that all? i can get it down to about 4 when you boot it in 1st... i don't think its that accurate anyway, i reset the average, then turned it to IC and it never went about 40 but yet the average was 42... 
Andyeastyorks
New member
Mate of Mine had a V6 Seat and if he booted it hard in first the MPG went to -4 mpg!!! Wonder if that means he is putting fuel back into the tank??? lol
Doubt it but sure would be good!
Doubt it but sure would be good!
LOL!!! haha, this is what i mean about them being inaccurate! lol.
- Joined
- Apr 8, 2004
- Messages
- 25,219
- Points
- 3,671
lol trip computers are abit inaccurate, we and my mate were goin on abit of a roadtrip, we were doing a steady 70 on the motorway andhe checked how much fuel he had left and it said 40 miles. checked it 5 miles down the road and it said 15. lol, dived into the next petrol station.
mantababe
New member
- Joined
- Oct 19, 2014
- Messages
- 180
- Points
- 48
No that means its dropping a galon of fuel on the road every mile
hi being dense here but can someone please explain to me how the IC works, is it showing how many miles you are doing per gallon??? as thats what i thought but now reading all your replies im not sure...........as why would you be trying to get it as low as poss
confused
IC is "instantaneous consumption", what the computer calculates you are doing at that moment.
Back in the eighties, a Rover 3500 V8 Auto up the hill out of Weymouth towards Dorchester (Dorset) could read 4mpg, then over the top and on the overrun, 144mpg. The trip computers used to read three figures then. Average was about 15mpg!
The current Fiesta, 1.0 100hp turbo can read 12mpg with just brisk acceleration, booting it hard takes it down to 3. "Econetic" not really.
Worst on the Panda I've seen has been 17mpg. Not a good toy really, may cause you to crash because you're reading the display instead of the road.
Back in the eighties, a Rover 3500 V8 Auto up the hill out of Weymouth towards Dorchester (Dorset) could read 4mpg, then over the top and on the overrun, 144mpg. The trip computers used to read three figures then. Average was about 15mpg!
The current Fiesta, 1.0 100hp turbo can read 12mpg with just brisk acceleration, booting it hard takes it down to 3. "Econetic" not really.
Worst on the Panda I've seen has been 17mpg. Not a good toy really, may cause you to crash because you're reading the display instead of the road.
mantababe
New member
- Joined
- Oct 19, 2014
- Messages
- 180
- Points
- 48
ok thanks thats what i thought, so why are ppl on here so proud of getting a low reading?????
also what would the -4 mean that one of the posters above mentioned?
My guess is that the computer was just a little confused.
It seems a frequent occurrence that the computer will confuse itself. There are several posts on the forum about this.
The trip will read up to 1999 miles, or 99.99 hours. When mine gets to one of those, it will fall over itself, and read about 13mpg average. Resetting to zero fixes it.
Just for fun. people always want to get mpg as high as possible... why not see how low you can get it.
mantababe
New member
- Joined
- Oct 19, 2014
- Messages
- 180
- Points
- 48
Just for fun. people always want to get mpg as high as possible... why not see how low you can get it.
ok understand now
some ppl obviously have too much money to burn :devil:
not difficult to get our sub-900cc Fiat's into single figures,
got 14 MILES with 2 x Gallons
- on my 125cc Enduro bike in a British Champs round..
I built the fuel gauges for a car that used about 42 gallons per mile
It's still the fastest
It's still the fastest
