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daddy cool wrote:Have a read of this...
http://www.fordtransit.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2563
Hope that helps
Luke your a wizz My own experience is you can't trust the forecourt pumps. The reason; I always run mine down to the minimum before filling up. Then I can tell where the crooks are. How? Well my tank is sometimes as big as 78 litres that's how On my '96 SWB LOW 70ps fully loaded with ladders; min 350. The most ever (probably had more longer runs) 450 to the tank. 2000 SWB LOW 85ps Auto same load 325 to the tank the most ever 375to the tank. And if you wait for the scheduled oil change it plummets down to 280 to a tank. Hence oil changes are and always have been much much sooner on any of my vans I try and be light footed but it is very difficult at times however I do tend to stick to one rule that is; keep revs below 3000rpm. I find it helps alot. And any of you with no rev counter with a 'normal' SWB that's 70mph in 5th/overdrive. After this you can almost see the fuel guage moving- well if you look long enough you know what I mean.Luke wrote:this is how i work out MPG
1) fill van tank full
2) reset trip meter
3) drive around untill van needs filling again
4) fill van and get recipt
5) on the recipt will be the litres you have put in multiply the litres by 0.22 this will give you the gallons, then write that number down, look at the trip meter and write that down.
6) divide the miles travelled by the gallons eg 400miles/12gallons=33.3mpg
this is the forumla
miles traveled = mpg
litres x 0.22
obviously its only as accurate as your speedo is but gives as acurate reading as you can get.
Luke wrote:this is how i work out MPG
1) fill van tank full
2) reset trip meter
3) drive around untill van needs filling again
4) fill van and get recipt
5) on the recipt will be the litres you have put in multiply the litres by 0.22 this will give you the gallons, then write that number down, look at the trip meter and write that down.
6) divide the miles travelled by the gallons eg 400miles/12gallons=33.3mpg
this is the forumla
miles traveled = mpg
litres x 0.22
obviously its only as accurate as your speedo is but gives as acurate reading as you can get.
thats ok but you still have to guess the miles you have done ont the fule you have put in - you may have gone on to the fuel that was in the tank if you get what i mean!!!Ron wrote:Luke wrote:this is how i work out MPG
1) fill van tank full
2) reset trip meter
3) drive around untill van needs filling again
4) fill van and get recipt
5) on the recipt will be the litres you have put in multiply the litres by 0.22 this will give you the gallons, then write that number down, look at the trip meter and write that down.
6) divide the miles travelled by the gallons eg 400miles/12gallons=33.3mpg
this is the forumla
miles traveled = mpg
litres x 0.22
obviously its only as accurate as your speedo is but gives as acurate reading as you can get.
Here's an alternative:
http://www.taxbuddies.com/mpg.php
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