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Whats your MPG ?????

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Re: Whats your MPG ?????

Postby executivetravel » Thu Nov 20, 2008 2:42 pm

Hydraulic Bloke wrote:Nope sorry we have 4.5 lts to the gall here, Wikip is yet wrong again



you better tell this guy then...

1 gallon=3.785 litres


http://www.rustbullet.com.au/epages/whi ... ts/4000142
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Re: Whats your MPG ?????

Postby mainroaduk » Thu Nov 20, 2008 7:01 pm

125/260 2.0 tdci fwd swb m/r (empty)
driven hard 29.5 mpg
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Re: Whats your MPG ?????

Postby loatmead » Thu Nov 20, 2008 10:39 pm

85ps/ low roof/ 33mpg / urban & A roads.
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Re: Whats your MPG ?????

Postby vandaft1980 » Thu Nov 20, 2008 11:49 pm

i have 55 plate 135bhp and get an average 240miles to the tank!
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Re: Whats your MPG ?????

Postby MrMPuk » Fri Nov 21, 2008 11:40 am

vandaft1980 wrote:i have 55 plate 135bhp and get an average 240miles to the tank!

Something wrong with that! When you say a tank how many litres are you talking about?
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Re: Whats your MPG ?????

Postby executivetravel » Fri Nov 21, 2008 12:38 pm

MrMPuk wrote:
vandaft1980 wrote:i have 55 plate 135bhp and get an average 240miles to the tank!

Something wrong with that! When you say a tank how many litres are you talking about?


i get approx 480 to a tank so i must be doing well
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Re: Whats your MPG ?????

Postby vandaft1980 » Fri Nov 21, 2008 4:13 pm

roughly 70 litres van is fully laden ,plus its never on motorways all that much
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Re: Whats your MPG ?????

Postby executivetravel » Fri Nov 21, 2008 7:42 pm

vandaft1980 wrote:i have 55 plate 135bhp and get an average 240miles to the tank!


70ltrs
16mpg?


ive had luton loaded to the brim giving better
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Re: Whats your MPG ?????

Postby vandaft1980 » Fri Nov 21, 2008 8:23 pm

put it in to ford a few times and they say nothing is wrong.even tried superchip bluefin to help fuel and performance but made no difference what so ever
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Re: Whats your MPG ?????

Postby executivetravel » Fri Nov 21, 2008 9:02 pm

vandaft1980 wrote:put it in to ford a few times and they say nothing is wrong.even tried superchip bluefin to help fuel and performance but made no difference what so ever



has it always been serviced
whats its mileage
fill it up, trip the meter, fill it up when it needs it, note mileage and ltrs used

it cant be only giving 16mpg mate

i drove a 2.4 lwb on multidrop and got more than 25mpg!
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Re: Whats your MPG ?????

Postby winterheating » Fri Nov 21, 2008 9:46 pm

at that mpg your effectivly paying £2/litre. is there any smoke :?:
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Re: Whats your MPG ?????

Postby bigp » Fri Nov 21, 2008 9:56 pm

SWB Semi High top with roof rack. It has the 25hp engine when it comes to hills, but I get about 30 mpg out of it at 70...
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Re: Whats your MPG ?????

Postby MrMPuk » Fri Nov 21, 2008 10:01 pm

bigp wrote:SWB Semi High top with roof rack. It has the 25hp engine when it comes to hills, but I get about 30 mpg out of it at 70...

25hp engine?
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Re: Whats your MPG ?????

Postby bigp » Fri Nov 21, 2008 10:10 pm

Yip it was more when it was new but its got about 25 horses at the moment lol. Needs a service and a bosche adjustment most prob ;)
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Re: Whats your MPG ?????

Postby vandaft1980 » Fri Nov 21, 2008 10:31 pm

T350 135 55 plate!!!!!!!!! its only done 24300 miles .16 mpg is what i worked it out as too . its 3 years old next month so will be getting its third service then .it does a slight misfire when idling also does this about 2000rpm when driving but only sometimes .ford just can not find the fault ,i thought maybe ingitor problem but i'm a spark so not really sure.anyone any ideas.cheers
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