Former
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Yes I would do a mpg check on an old car new to me or if I thought a car wasn't running right or to test out new parts or "improvements" but that would be it. I don't like to keep many virtual records let alone paper records. Unless there's a fault in the car other than changes in some parts, perhaps as service replacement much of the improved mpg I'd have thought would be from driver technique including vehicle preparation. I certainly don't like doing the math (another American invasion) but I can do (very) simple maths and it's took me hours to remember what had a re-emergence in the 70s petrol crisis (such as it actually was here) the 'TelUlog' (I couldn't get the name right), no converting from (UK) gallons then of course.
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Dimensions are overall. If you're keeping the car it doesn't pay to go cheap on a car battery in my opinion and experience. Tayna offer a range of 096 batteries and have (their?) Enduroline 096 as Star Buy. I bought an Enduroline for my car (not a Fabia) 5-6 years ago and it's been fine, never touched it. Extra storage capacity and CCA (Cold Cranking Power) is useful to have, subject to the battery being able to retain as much of it for as long as possible. See attached PDF if you want intro info. Tayna 096 Standard batteries - https://www.tayna.co.uk/car-batteries/types/096/ HTH. CarBatteryInformation.pdf
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Far too modern for me to know about. 😄
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In some cases wrapping exhaust manifold can put too much heat the the head.
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Now I didn't know you were referring to Scotland, been a few years since I've been there but it certainly suits faster cars with it's more open, flowing less congested roads not so well suited to my current car, and more suited to steady driving helping mpg. There is certainly "lies, damned lies and VW statistics". I saw on here were IIRC the Fabia has rear bodyweights. It's a matter of many records that I think of VW cars being heavy the from at least the Mk2 Golf in my memory and I know from personal experience of lighter cars the difference to power to weight someone like me can make to the car. Years ago when I went out on a passenger ride in a Fabia vRS at Bruntingthorpe 'track' I was very impressed by it, felt more like a 2 litre, I think it wass factory standard. A very quick look at your links and you put - "Real world is 37-42 mpg over the months, years. 45 mpg at UK NSL's is easy to get, so you can get 450 miles from a brimmed tank, some get near 600 miles hypermiling." Now I follow more what you meant by NSL driving but it would vary over countries and counties and I was thinking 70 not 60, my mistake, silly really as I now drive at 60 on the motorway and so are many others now it seems. In the mid-90s for at least a month I travelled up and down parts of the M1 and M6 at 50mph in a late 60s Spridget (well bits of it were) as I'd had a recon gearbox installed and it vibrated between 50 and 70. I was often in the inside lane with a quarter to half a mile between me and the next vehicle in front of me and the other two lanes nose to tail often at 55-60. Often too I would have to slow to prevent me undertaking at 50 mph yet there was still about quarter of a mile of empty lane space. Used to get good mpg then.
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Too true, I thought there was some sort of conformation that the battery wasn't in 100% health(?), I can't think a 6 year old battery would still be at 100% capacity, I took the 100% to be the 12.8v charge and that that had been lost overnight suggesting time for change. ETA: its not hundreds on a battery and of course there could be more than one fault, that might or might not involve the battery in one or any of those faults. Usually worth rechecking what you've double-checked before too.
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Well done. Do me a favour I can't keep up with all my errors could you edit some of mine too. 😁
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Unless you're going to be selling the car going for cheap on a battery isn't a good idea in my opinion and experience. IIRC Tayna will price match like for like and available, and if you order before ??3pm?? you normally get it delivered next day. Tayna lists have tabs for EFB and AGM at top of page. The Xtool may depend on its type and programming as to what and how much it can do but plug it in and give it a go, then you want to reuse it after a reasonable drive to check what it has still showing. As I've discovered some say they've cleared codes but other machines can still see them not that it matters if the car is running fine. Get the new battery before the panic buying starts.
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Yes, on old cars you just manually turned the air filter housing inlet tube through a ninety degree turn from horizontal to pointing to exhaust. But if you sealed the adapter the what has got caught, did it have springs and you left the springs on and they have come away with the seal/valve/cover, I'm lost, perhaps a photo of the offending items.
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Yeap totally agree with that. But doesn't the car already do that with it's readouts, if you reset all that needs resetting if required, I don't know as I'm not allowed to touch any settings as it's not my car and I don't often drive it (I did plumb in oil temperature and got away with it as it never leaves digital MPH).
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This is the bit I was looking for. MPG means very little to me otherwise I wouldn't have had the cars I had and have now, A to B driving I prefer to be a passenger preferably in someone else's vehicle, I've never been in a better vehicle than someone else's where they have the hassle and expenses, mpg being just one which I'll happily contribute to.
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I am researching it, I'm asking you and others. 😉 That's my point, it's not brim to brim. I can fill my old car up to brim, literally to the back of the petrol cap (not a good idea) and I know this takes time and several attempts to let the filling petrol settle, the hose tip can only be at the very start of the filler aperture (do we count the lost vapours from this) again not a good idea. Doing the fill to first click and mileage is fine and reasonably accurate, good enough, but no point going to too many decimal places and a rounded up or down whole figure for mpg is fine is but it not that accurate, more accurate than VW figures no doubt and more real world.
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Well done on finding this, it shows you know your car well by your concern with idle speeds. Is this some sort of manually operated diverter, by hand or cable?
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Yeah engine keeps going but even at idle it uses some fuel and if the engine is off the start system would have to kick in and I don't think even VW would have the engine off for downhills, or perhaps they might. 😉 The method you give is reasonable for the idea of mpg but not that accurate, first click of pump could vary how much is in the tank from previous fill for a few reasons and you'd have to be returning to the same pump, I'm not sure how accurate the trip/odometers are on theses cars good enough I'd guess but I've never checked. Out of habit and just to see if my wife will ever remember the sequence we divide to 4.546 (and it's 0 next anyway). My wife is the queen of spreadsheets (her brother is literally an expert in them, MS Excel at least and probably others) but she doesn't keep any on cars, she does how ever have records on 'food type' shopping going back decades IIRC on spread sheets going back to something like 1993. I think it started when I said it wasn't worth the effort of saving shopping coupons many decades back and I said if she kept a list of the savings from them to the end of the year she ought to have half that value to treat herself to something, I created a monster and was proved very wrong. The older ones don't need a website as they're used to using manual rotary calculators and keeping records from the days of black & white tellies. 😄
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Thank you for your reply, whatever the exact figures your mpg is impressive but I think some figures do need to be a little less absolute in some respects, if the engine is going at 1400 revs it must be using some fuel otherwise surely it'd stall and I'm not sure how much you can rely on the car's computer for accurately, especially a VW, for consumption readings, if you said it used next to no fuel, but ZERO? And the 58 figure is impressive would be impressive at 50 but have done mpg figures on old 1960s and 70s cars I don't see how you can have such accuracy when filling new cars, accuracy on distance could be good but figures for mpg would still be approximate - unless you worked it out to about 60mpg and decided to call it 58 for margin of variances. I've no idea what my wife gets on a good run as she never uses the display other than MPH and I forget tank fill mpg despite having to remind her every time how litres to a (UK) gallon why she could stop at the one decimal place that she can remember but she keeps going for three and misremembering, like I do for just about anything else.
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That is fine, that is your oil belief. The box I have goes back to the 1960s I doubt, but don't know, if the Felica box goes back that far or further.
