Whats your MPG ?????

[idchappy]

I seem to get really gash MPG on my 85 260 53 plate, it's not heavily loaded (rough guess around 200kg) and most of my driving is around town. I toil to get more than 350 miles to the tank even with adding diesel fuel additives nearly every time.

[idchappy]

Oops sorry for the double post

I just deleted the first one, so you'll have to post it again

Try slowing down?
Have you ever had the van weighed? Most people have no idea how heavy their van is
Last serviced?
Is egr blocked?

That explains it then .
hmm good questions though buddy .
I'm not colonel leadfoot but not driving mrs daisy either, maybr i shouldn't emm give the gears so much revs.

Van weighed: nope, local garage be able to do that? Hang on, the scrappy has a weighbridge
Last serviced: My dads pretty good at mechanics... but we're up to our nuts in it the last few months so it's due some loving...
ERG.. emmm

[ake]

Oops sorry for the double post

I just deleted the first one, so you'll have to post it again

Try slowing down?
Have you ever had the van weighed? Most people have no idea how heavy their van is
Last serviced?
Is egr blocked?

That explains it then .
hmm good questions though buddy .
I'm not colonel leadfoot but not driving mrs daisy either, maybr i shouldn't emm give the gears so much revs.

Van weighed: nope, local garage be able to do that? Hang on, the scrappy has a weighbridge
Last serviced: My dads pretty good at mechanics... but we're up to our nuts in it the last few months so it's due some loving...
ERG.. emmm

Scrappy weighbridge is how I do it
A service won't hurt, and blocking egr is cheap and simple

[idchappy]

Went to the scrappy today, van weight with the normal amount of gear in it is 2160kg

[ake]

So you have 460kg of available payload

[idchappy]

So that's what the 260/280/300/330 mean then?

[ake]

So that's what the 260/280/300/330 mean then?

Add a zero, and it's the max gross vehicle weight

[Muttley]

Very happy today, have just done full tank MPG test on my 125t350, its a mixed bag of driving loaded and unloaded, motorway and traffic (Dartford crossing ) Came out at 27 MPG, I'm very happy with that

[chris_]

I usually get around 34 mpg (8,3l/100km) and about 620 miles with a full tank.

But i managed to get down to 22 mpg
Fully loaden and hitting the 100mph speed limiter very often

[lhd16e]

my 2004 transit car transporter can only do 22 mpg i thinks thats a crap mpg

[EvilT]

I used to get around 30-32 with my K-reg SWB 2.5 D, then more or less exactly the same with a 54 plate connect 1.8 TDCi. The latter was much more motorway driving too, implying the older van got the better mileage overall. :/

As of now I get ~19- but then they don't sell Transits in Canada where I am now, so I had to buy this instead:

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3.0 v6 petrol.

[tibsy]

did my first true mpg calculation a couple of days ago.
brimmed the tank a few weeks back and brimmed again when the fuel light came on,-
382 miles, -70.48 litre
which is aprox 25mpg!
not bad considering that 340 miles of that was multidrop town work 20, 30, 40 limits so hardly ever got higher than 4th (the other 40 miles was motorway)
only ever put bp ultimate in since i`ve had it.

OOPS, posted this elsewhere before noticing this thread

[Van Winkle]

Checked my mk5 over last couple of weeks I have had it and with 62.07 litre of diesel covered 540 miles of town and motorway driving and 60mph max, I reckon that's about 39 mpg so that will do me !

[Naglfar]

With my MK6 2001 2,0 TDDI 100ps I've been getting around an avarage of 30MPG. That's mostly driving in the city and some country side with mostly an empty trunk. Registration says the vehicle mass is 1780 kg and gross mass is 2880 kg (it's T300 model). I accelerate quite aggrisevely through 2nd, 3rd and 4th gear and on the high way I always use full throttle . But I do prefer the engine brake over normal brakes always when possible.

Been thinking for some time now to tune the engine (like chip tune) in hope of more performance and better MPG. I just don't know the available solutions for 2,0 liter TTDI 100ps engine and is it worth the cost?

[Bull Bus]

My DCIV 125 SWB 290 has 500 miles on the clock. Managed 35 mpg on single carriageway A roads well laden on our Easter holiday run. Happy with that, as it should improve when it loosens up later. Been getting 25 mpg around town.