In todays climate, how far is £50 going to get me?

[RobbieRX-7]

Just took it out for a spin and i hit 40% duty after crawling upto 3000rpm. It\'s about 20% at idle

[AshRX]

£30 in the 8 yesterday and got 72 miles!!!! I knew they were bad but not that bad, its worse than my old modded FD

[leon]

Stop Starting the Rex also KILLS the fuel economy sotmhing rotton, i find if you can judge the lights and try to coast up to them and still be rolling when they go green you do get better econmy same with the roundabout. :Giggle  

Im temtped to drive my car like a panzy this week and see what MPG i can get. :Laugh

[FD3SNuttah]

you know yesterday i went for a little drive and worked out that you can get decent economy if you dont drive like an idiot. if you drive it nice n steady its not that bad.

i suppose if you had it mapped with a pfc with normal petrol and not 99\'ron it would make the car much cheaper to run.

One day though, im defo getting my FD put onto LPG, lets hope that they decide not to tax lpg too much!

[RemarkLima]

Just took it out for a spin and i hit 40% duty after crawling upto 3000rpm. It\'s about 20% at idle

Robbie, you sure it\'s not you TPS out of alignment? i.e. you\'re coasting along and it thinks you\'re at 50% throttle?

Or maybe the water temps are too low and it\'s putting more fuel in like a cold start?

[FD3SNuttah]

ive done some number crunching - on FUEL COSTS alone my rex costs 28p a mile.

the sum is - cost of a tank of fuel / how many miles you get.

in comparison my 99\' polo saloon TDI gets 500 miles to a tank and costs £40 to fill. this works out at only 8p per mile!

[T11MNM]

I\'m definatley considering keeping my run around for the commute.

[RobbieRX-7]

Robbie, you sure it\'s not you TPS out of alignment? i.e. you\'re coasting along and it thinks you\'re at 50% throttle?

Or maybe the water temps are too low and it\'s putting more fuel in like a cold start?

Well the car idles perfectly, drives perfectly without any bucking or hesitation and i\'ve never touched the TPS. The only thing i can think of right now is that the PFC has lost it\'s map and reset to base mod map. I adjusted the maximum revs on the comander to somthing like 2000rpm a couple weeks ago just messin about, but i set it back to what it was before.  It\'s running stinking rich, somebody at the ATM machine commented how rich it was running. Im gonna get the map emailed to me so i can reflash the ecu and see what happens

[Aceman]

With a sigle turbo you shoul find you\'re getting 22-26mpg.  If i\'m doing a mway run I get about 350 miles from a tank.

I\'m not far off you - running non-seq.

Sensible driving (keeping off boost, cruising at 70 on motorway) I\'ve seen just over 300 to a tank before.

All goes out the window when you feel like pushing it a little though, but so much more fun...