General 1.2 16v 2001 punto how many miles per gallon do you get

Currently reading:
General 1.2 16v 2001 punto how many miles per gallon do you get

Joined
Feb 8, 2008
Messages
224
Points
53
Location
saltas (cornwall)
hi was just wondering how many miles per gallon do you geton your 1.2 16v puntos i checked mine tonight and it said 39.2 miles but i have been driving a little fast only coz its my new car. im not sure how much i should get if i drive a little slower
 
im gonna try slowing down a little and see if i get anymore, im still getting use to this car i have had it since saturday and im still reving a bit much when pulling away coz im used to driving diesels and i find you have to be heavy with the pedals so when i get a little better hopefully it shoudl get more miles, does the computer sort the miles per gallon even when you dont see it on the screen all the time i have my miles showing
 
Last edited:
im gonna try slowing down a little and see if i get anymore, im still getting use to this car i have had it since saturday and im still reving a bit much when pulling away coz im used to driving diesels and i find you have to be heavy with the pedals so when i get a little better hopefully it shoudl get more miles, does the computer sort the miles per gallon even when you dont see it on the screen all the time i have my miles showing

Its calculated all the time even when you don't have it displayed. I wouldn't trust it too much tbh. I can remember having 36mpg on my trip computer after 40litres and I worked it could manually and actually had high 39mpg. Could have been due to the bigger alloys :rolleyes:.
 
i get about 37-40 mpg on the trip meter usually, thats commuting with a number of stop-starts.

i zeroed the tripmeter once, then redlined it in every gear, the first reading that came up was 21mpg ;)

i have had an apparent 75mpg once :eek: although 55mpg is attainable if its 60mph on a very long, straight, flat road :D

its strange how that trip computer works.... i suppose it just adds another data point every time, stores them all, and averages? it must be able to hold an awful lot of points, because after a week of not resetting it, the mpg hardly changes at all.

dave, that must have been one VERY impressive "private road" then :p
 
re set the trip counter then drive for ages never going above 3k revs and it should go up


i just came home on a private road doing 90-100 and mine didnt drop below 33mpg

tried this, even tried resetting the ecu.

It starts off about 43mpg, then if I let it idle or reg it a bit it goes down, but never goes back up :(
 
I've got a sporting speedgear (52), I commute 40 miles a day in fairly heavy traffic, I don't drive slow but generally don't go over 4000 revs and mines usually between 37-40mpg. Work it out manually and it seems fairly accurate.

Once drove from Leeds to Sheffield, 30 miles, motorway + A roads + city centre and got 54 mpg (no traffic). That was keeping it under 2250ish revs, on a flat speedgear will do about 70/75 at those revs.
 
Last edited:
Back
Top