peter0003
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Hi All, I wanted to know how many miles I can get with a 35litre tank of my 2009 Panda dynamic 1.2 eco model? It maybe in the manual but it's not easy to understand. Yours Peter0003
A almost new 169 4x4.. Rare.. But not the best on fuelMy wife gets about 40 mpg in an almost brand new 4x4, think it’s about 350 miles on a full tank, she does mainly short journeys ie about 20miles a day back and forward to her work.
Next issue will be.. How much fuel is actually useableHi All, I wanted to know how many miles I can get with a 35litre tank of my 2009 Panda dynamic 1.2 eco model? It maybe in the manual but it's not easy to understand. Yours Peter0003
A almost new 169 4x4.. Rare.. But not the best on fuel
My golf has a panic attack when the fuel gets low. Initially it will say you have 40 miles left and the light comes on. after another 5 miles it says you only have 30 miles left. Another 2 miles down the road and its down to only 20 miles left and by the time you've covered 20 out of the initial 40 miles it claimed you had left it's now screaming Zero miles left, the light is flashing and an alarm is sounding..... it really does not want to run out of fuel.Apropos miles per tank, I've never known such a pessimistic 'fill now' message on any car. Not sure if that extends back to the previous gen. too, but it's genuinely unhelpful!
Can't remember if you've ever mentioned if the Golf has a direct injection fuel system? If so the warning system is probably doing you a favour as you really don't want the high pressure pump to draw air. I know the fuel filter has a return circuit which, in theory, should prevent this but I'd rather just not risk it. I start looking to fill the Ibiza once the needle gets below about the quarter mark and definitely top up as soon as any warning appears.My golf has a panic attack when the fuel gets low. Initially it will say you have 40 miles left and the light comes on. after another 5 miles it says you only have 30 miles left. Another 2 miles down the road and its down to only 20 miles left and by the time you've covered 20 out of the initial 40 miles it claimed you had left it's now screaming Zero miles left, the light is flashing and an alarm is sounding..... it really does not want to run out of fuel.
Its a 2.0TDI so I assume its just like any other VW TDI and is direct injection.Can't remember if you've ever mentioned if the Golf has a direct injection fuel system? If so the warning system is probably doing you a favour as you really don't want the high pressure pump to draw air. I know the fuel filter has a return circuit which, in theory, should prevent this but I'd rather just not risk it. I start looking to fill the Ibiza once the needle gets below about the quarter mark and definitely top up as soon as any warning appears.
Ah, a diesel! Then it's going to be either a PD (VAG's unique system where each injector has it's own pumping plunger actuated by a separate cam lobe) or CR (common rail, which is a system we're all much more familiar with) depends on how old it is, the CR engines took over where the PDs finished. Personally, give me a PD any day. However, no matter which it's not a petrol so my comments don't apply so directly - get it? directly? ha ha. Good practice though not to run out and let air get into the system - even if many modern diesels will self bleed if you crank them for long enough but I always pity the poor starter motor and battery if you do.Its a 2.0TDI so I assume its just like any other VW TDI and is direct injection.
I can't say I have ever run out of fuel ever in my life
well not on my own cars, maybe when I worked in the trade where they keep a thimble full of fuel in cars but then there was always someone from the office with a can of petrol to get you going again.
Because I am quite rural if I am in a city, then I can have a good 20 - 30 mile trip home with only one fuel station on route that because it's rural can be stupidly expensive at it's worst last year one of them reached £2 a liter. so I try and fill up in town or once I am back home, but If I forget when leaving town the car can get very anxious on the trip back as 40miles left indicated on the tank, drops to about 20 miles of driving before the computer is showing zero miles left.
I believe its likely to be a CR. It is the post 2015 150bhp euro6 version, prior to that they were 140hp for the same displacement.Ah, a diesel! Then it's going to be either a PD (VAG's unique system where each injector has it's own pumping plunger actuated by a separate cam lobe) or CR (common rail, which is a system we're all much more familiar with) depends on how old it is, the CR engines took over where the PDs finished. Personally, give me a PD any day. However, no matter which it's not a petrol so my comments don't apply so directly - get it? directly? ha ha. Good practice though not to run out and let air get into the system - even if many modern diesels will self bleed if you crank them for long enough but I always pity the poor starter motor and battery if you do.
Yes good adviceFill tank up, reset trip computer.
Drive till tank as low as you' feel happy letting it get to.
Fill tank back up.
Take the amount of fuel you added on the second fill up in litres and divide it by 4.54 to get the rough gallons figure.
divide the number of miles done between fill ups by the number of gallons added on the second fill up to get your MPG figure, that's assuming you don't have the function on the car's computer to tell you the MPG
As stated above depending on the sort of driving you do, this figure can vary wildly. someone doing a 10 mile 60mph non stop trip to work every day is likely to get many more miles out of a tank than someone who does at 10 mile drive to work in in a buy city and spends 50% of the journey stationary with the engine running.