Diabolical Fuel Consumption!

[michaelgrimes]

My car seems to be horrendous on fuel consumption, i full tanked her friday, and im already down to about 4/5's of a tank!
I know im 19 and have a very heavy right foot :P
But i dont even rag it everywhere, most of the time, i just cba lol!
Anyway ideas waht this could be?
Thanks

[SnakeVTR]

what sort of mileage are you getting on the 1/5 of a tank, you could have done 85 miles since friday and that would be good for city driving :y:

[michaelgrimes]

i think iv done about 30-40 miles

[mlawlan69]

I get 100 miles to 20 in my furio. Seems your not doing to bad really. . .

[wicked-vtr]

The fuel gauge is extremely inaccurate on mine, brim it and make a note of the mielage,see how many miles you get till the red light comes on. That's about 9 gallons, from that you can work out your mpg. I get about 28-33 around town and 40 ish on a long run. That's in a cammed vts

Edit: I also get 100 miles on £20, that's about 30 mpg at the price of fuel round here.

[f13sta]

not too bad really. got 235 miles to 3/4 of a tank or £40 (tank were pretty empty)

that works out at 35.5 mpg and this month i just put my new kam racing exhaust so errr yeh holding onto revs a little longer than i would normally do :oops:. all town driving btw

[mlawlan69]

The fuel gauge is extremely inaccurate on mine, brim it and make a note of the mielage,see how many miles you get till the red light comes on. That's about 9 gallons, from that you can work out your mpg. I get about 28-33 around town and 40 ish on a long run. That's in a cammed vts

Edit: I also get 100 miles on £20, that's about 30 mpg at the price of fuel round here.

In that case Im happy with 30 mpg :-) only ever do town driving so that's good as far as Im concerned lol.

[michaelgrimes]

alright guys, il take a note of the mileage when i next full tank it and go from there!!

[DreamEater]

I get 345 miles to a full tank (putting in 40 litres)

Works out to 39mpg, city, motorway and fast road...

[enthrone]

Im sure the fuel gages in saxos are shite.

many times in mine ive drove miles with no movement, then bam im almost empty.

other times i've been on orange light for days..

[mlawlan69]

Im sure the fuel gages in saxos are shite.

many times in mine ive drove miles with no movement, then bam im almost empty.

other times i've been on orange light for days..

lol thats happened to me before too, driven for a good 30-40 miles and its not moved an inch, turn the car off, leave it over night or for a few hours, come back and im empty lol.

[Tontsy]

pretty sure i used to get about 60 miles on the red light...before i decided to fill her up again.

[devilsadvocate]

I get 135 miles to £20 in the VTS and that's a combo of city and motorway driving, with a heavyish foot.

Give the car a full service if it hasn't been done recently