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Forum => General Smart Chat => Topic started by: cecil on December 11, 2018, 07:18:46 PM
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Just filled mine up- Took 47 litres (nearly whoops!). Anyone managed more?
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Gonna be honest and say I never look at litres .. all I know is if I drive boringly I get 32mpg .. but if I have fun on a clear road or in gaps of traffic and I put my right foot down I can go down to 27mpg .. Tesco momentum I put in my Brab and I never her run down below 2 blocks on fuel gauge so have no idea on true Cost / litres
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The most I've managed to put in is 42L, and that's with driving it all the way down to 0.0L.
I think the car is sneaky and trying to hide gas from me, and good on it as i can't always be bothered to fill up whenever it dips into the reserve.
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47L? Brave soul - you must have really let the tank dry out!
Max I've managed to put in is about 43L but then again I always fill up as soon as the fuel gauge gets to the last bar.
I'm getting about 38mpg from her at the moment so I'm a happy chappy
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Yesss i have,I did 859km, that is 534 miles and tanked 48.9 liters petrol, so i must have been driving on petrol fumes.
Eddie.
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I must admit to being nervous on way to petrol station, but never thought it was that low. Think yours will take some beating Eddie
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I only ever put enough in to get to an Autosolo and do the event and get me to the nearest Shell or Gulf station thereafter. No point in dragging excess fuel round the track
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I've only managed 37 so far! Being new to me I have no idea how far it'll go once its down to its last bar (I'm not overly keen on 'bars' of petrol).
I did manage to run my old Saab dry with a 65 litre tank! Completely conked out, at 4am, lesson learnt ::)
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Each bar is ~5L and you have another 5L in reserve which show up after the last bar goes out, which goes down in increments of 0.5L.
It's best not to run it empty as it really strains the pump.
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I’ve had over 40ltrs in the brab
Have regularly had it down to its 0.0ltr and 0 miles range
JJ
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I’ve had over 40ltrs in the brab
Have regularly had it down to its 0.0ltr and 0 miles range
JJ
that's what I do but your clearly not brave enough... iv had 0.0l, --- range and filled with 48.2 litres ;D
iv even resorted to switching the a/c off when I set off from my dads work after dropping him off when its reading 1.5-2.5l (to eek as much as I can) and got to work and back to the shell garage I regularly use... even though I pass 2 shell garages, 1 on the way in to wakefield and the other on the way out. (I use different routes due to traffic on the way in and out)
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On the run up to payday I couldn't afford to fill the tank so I finally pushed it beyond that last far. Got down to 2.5L and then managed to get 45L in.
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Last Sunday i drove a few km's on 0.0L and it took 41.5L to fill and for the pump to click off. There probably was a bit more room but to get more in it, i'd have to trickle the petrol in and the pump would trip multiple times.
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my last fill managed 49.25 litres. I was pushing it as I set off from Leeds with the reading 1.0l and got to Wakefield (20 miles) and had 0.0. it ticked over to 0.0 about 12 mile from Wakefield, on the smart motorway part of the M1
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Beat me by .35 liter.....lol.
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How many times did the pump click off/trip off during those fills? Do you use any special technique to get that much in?
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I hope the petrol was super cheap to justify the risk of being stranded
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Ahaha! I had a Renault Megane that I once filled to the brim, click click click click until it held no more.
Bad idea! It leaked gasoline therafter (movement caused it to drip underneath) until the day I had it crushed... Everytime I parked, I'd pray no-one flicked a cigarette near it for an hour or two.
I know it's probably because the car was crap, after all, I let it go to the breakers when it became too uneconomical to fix (though the engine itself was solid) but I tend to think twice now before trying to really max it out on filling the tank of my beloved ForFour.
One click is enough thankyou!
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How many times did the pump click off/trip off during those fills? Do you use any special technique to get that much in?
I like round figures, nearest round figure. I do sometimes think I have a mild case of OCD.
the pump must have clicked off about 3/4 times, I honestly cant remember.
I hope the petrol was super cheap to justify the risk of being stranded
wasn't that 'cheap', although the shell garage on Denby Dale road is cheaper than the garage on Dewsbury road. I know that I can squeeze over 400 miles out of a tank of fuel, if im not pushing it. I know it will easily do 360/370 miles to a tank with my driving.
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So about £65 in petrol ;)
Ouch
JJ
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last fill £62.01
iv filled with £71.01 one time, but that was when V-Power was at £1.479 per litre.
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G'day, A few months ago petrol was here $2.319 per liter, ok you can say, thats only.....pound per liter but we have dollars here so pounds are not of any thought out here, and on a 300 dollar pension we had to be careful with our driving.
Eddie.
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Ouch. I filled with 98octane for 5.07RON/L which is about 0.935 GBP/L or 1.79NZ $. But it's normally around 5.30 RON per liter for 95octane so closer to 1GBP or 1.9NZD per liter.
I don't usually fill with 98 octane in the wintertime because it gets a bit worse fuel economy (more ethanol in it) and i don't really need the extra knock resistance in the cold. But hopefully it's a bit better quality (more refined) than regular so i couldn't pass on the offer.
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I only use Efitec 98 from Repsol (reliable quality!) at around €1.30 EUR per litre, which works out about 1.15 GBP/l. I think that's reasonable and like Mr.Singh, I find using 98RON does seem to give a little bit more power.
Also, my own reading tells me that higher RON suits higher compression engines, and I think (relatively) high compression is one way Mitsubishi squeezes HP out of the 1.1 3Cyl engine, so it seems logical to me too, to stick with 98 RON.
Can't say I ever tanked the car fully as I don't use it for long journeys etc.. most I ever put in was probably 25l. It's just a lot for me to throw 50-odd euro into the tank in one go, though to be fair it'd probably last me for months.
How I wish for the return of those halcyon days where your litres counted up faster than the pounds/euros counted down...
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G'day Alex, That was for 91 octane what i always tank, 95 octane was NZ $2.459 per liter, and 98 octane NZ $2.599 per liter.
About 3 years ago i changed to 91 octane without any noticeable difference in power, but I am a bit of an careful eco driver anyway.
I still do get over 19kml with 91 octane.
Greetings,
Eddie.
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First car I've had which shows a figure for remaining range, rather than just flashing a little petrol pump to say "Oi! Fill me up". So, second or third tankful, I decided to see how much I could trust it. I got quite low. I think it was 0.8 or something, and it took 45 or 46 point something litres to fill. I wasn't being all that brave, though, I had a gallon in the boot.
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If your fuel light light flashes on filling then a gallon in the boot is a good idea.
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I actually ran out yesterday (fuel gauge seems to have stopped going down at 3 bars). Got 49.7L in it.
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Stats from fuelio app
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I think my forfour is playing mind games with me. When I set out for Aberdeen last week the remaining range showed 63 miles, for a trip of 58 miles. On arrival it displayed 17 miles left. After my appointment I went in search of a Tesco to fill up (at home that's the only place that does super unleaded, so I worked on the basis that I could rely on them having it) and with 9 miles left it took just a tad under forty litres to the first click, which I just rounded up to that figure, though it would have taken more, as illustrated by the new range figure of 261 miles, whereas when I brim it it shows 273 miles. It was 62 miles home from there, and back on my drive the range remaining was 244 miles. Who's going mad? Me or my forfour?
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Range changes dynamically based on the very recent fuel consumption of your last few miles. Basically it says, if you keep driving like this, then the predicted range is XX.
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Ah, I see. I'd presumed it was either a simple countdown from the last fill-up, or maybe a calculation of what's in the tank times official mpg figure. Or maybe it is that when filled up, as it always displays 273 miles when brimmed, but then measures the tank against current usage as one goes.
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Does your fuel gauge flash? I am just checking as it is a known fault and can give inaccurate readings when it happens. Alex's comment about predicted range is my experience as well.
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No, it doesn't flash at all. When I referred to flashing petrol pumps a few posts down the page that was in respect of previous cars which didn't have a range remaining counter.
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the 'range remaining counter' as you call it snookey is all an approximation. when it says you have 5.0l it doesn't mean you have 5 actual litres left in the tank.
iv managed to get from my work in Wakefield to me home in Leeds on supposedly 1.5l of fuel. when I got to work in the morning it was showing 5.0l. how could I have suddenly have lost 3.5 litres of fuel in 8 hours.
what your best of doing it resetting the trip when you fill drive till you think you need to fill and then see how many miles you have done. depending on what engine you have it could be anything from 420* miles (1.1) to 360* miles (1.5 120bhp)
*numbers quoted are from personal experience.
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As a rule the 273 range indicated when brimmed isn't too far out. Maybe 250-260. I do mostly fairly short journeys, five to ten miles. Last week's trip to Aberdeen and a forty mile run yesterday seem to be indicating I'll do rather better this tankful - unless I get too trigger happy with my right foot.
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A Brab on approx 300(+-30) miles per tank is what I expect as well. Getting trigger happy in a Brab is part of the fun. ;D
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Too right. That horny little growl as one floors it onto a long straight and feeling the distance to the next corner just melt away under one's wheels is spinetinglingly addictive.
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For me - all town driving in traffic gives me 220 per tank (consistent over 6 years)
JJ
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For me it's about nine miles to the edge of town (they call it a city but it's neither big nor busy by most town standards in Englandshire), then a couple of miles around town and back again. Or, the other way, through the village and about four or five miles (usually to the vet) just through the next village. Those are my regular runs, so on the one hand it's mostly rural roads, on the other hand just as it gets well warmed up I'm arriving.