Fuel Economy?

[mdk1]

As a question was asked in another thread, what sort of Fuel Economy do you get from your Roomster?

Mine is usually driven briskly on a mixture of roads to get

[Mr Statto]

As stated in the other thread, according to SpiritMonitor.de we average around 33mpg in our 1.4 petrol Roomster. However, that is only the last 3 refuellings - I think our overall average is about 36. We don't do enough long runs to get it much higher

[Decron]

[mdk1]

Have had mine upto 75mpg on a single journey before

What's on your trip" 2 "?

[Salut]

Greetings to you all!

On a tank topping average I am getting around 50/54 since I picked the car up: thats worked out over 8000 miles.

Having done a long motorway run today I topped the tank up just for fun and was surprised to see 59.3 mpg. The run was very straightforward and the traffic was kind, sort of averaged 60 ish (about 2250 revs). Did a run to Edinburgh a while ago and that gave me 62 mpg, again no great rush there or back.

If you include all the about town stuff, which is the daily routine, I am quite OK with the 50ish mark over the total mileage.

Forgot to say, mine is an Olive Green, Roomster 2 (no tweaking save a few dozen dead flies)

[mdk1]

Salut, what engine do you have?

[snownrock]

Well my Furby has the same engine as the roomy and my MPG can be seen below, though that was on its very first tank, havent filled up for the 2nd time yet lol. My usual will probably be worse as i only do short journeys to work so it doesnt have time to build economy. Although when i did some christian motoring driving up to leeds at the weekend i got 63mpg, so about 58 actual.

[Meadway]

I wondered about the maxiDot accuracy. On a 1500-mile check on my R3 1.9, doing initial and final fills at the same pump, I make the car's fuel consumption indication about 6% optimistic. Later checks confirm it. But I'm quite happy with a longish-term average of 53 mpg.

John

[jamcoly]

1.4 16v petrol

average mpg seams to be approx 42mpg

but have had over 48mpg on a run.

[StuartBell]

1.9Tdi. Dashboard figures are 45 mpg around town (except when traffic really congested), 55 mpg on any longer journey unless it's all v fast motorway, 60 mpg on gentle runs across country, and it's pretty well impossible to get less than 50 mpg, however hard I drive.

Stuart

[Decron]

Have had mine upto 75mpg on a single journey before

What's on your trip" 2 "?

That was a 500 mile trip

53.4mpg currently. I brim it at about 51mpg.

[irfant]

Mine is near to the factory consumptions written in the catalogue...

1.4 85 hp petrol...

[Gogata]

For the last 3000km the board computer says "5.8l/100km". My Roomie is 1.4TDI, 80bhp.

[Mr Statto]

1.4 16v petrol

average mpg seams to be approx 42mpg

but have had over 48mpg on a run.

I'm guessing most of your driving is long motorway runs?

[jamcoly]

my drive to work is 8 miles of mostly countrylanes

i tend to maintain 40-42mpg on these types of journey

[g6zru]

Since I got the car in March08 I have been averaging 47MPG overall. I fill the tank and calculate the MPG from that. That includes two 10 day holidays towing a 1000kg caravan. Long individual runs have returned 50-52MPG, round the town can go as low as 40MPG.

Roomster Scout 1.9TDI

Fred

Edited 26 October, 2008 by g6zru

[Salut]

Sorry for the long pause, my Roomy is the 1.9tdi.

Had a run to Oswestry today, round trip of about 57 miles-the trip computor showed 64.1mpg run at around 60mph

[timppi]

Currently my 1,4 tdi dpf Roomster shows (5.4 litres) per (100 km) = 52.3113061 miles per Imperial gallon (converted by google:).

Now we have driven >3400km and bought it brand new.

[jonathan]

I took my Scout to France 3 months ago full of camping gear 2 kids and wife. We did 1,400 miles round trip with a mixture of motorway and coastal roads. We averaged about 47 mpg. When I got back she had her first service, since the service the mpg has gone up and now I average about 53-54mpg. I must admit I am a bit disappointed in my average mpg when I drive on local roads but I only use the car in the mornings to take the boys to school which is around 6 miles so I guess the car has not warmed up properly by the time I get home. When I walk them to school I find I get the best mpg!

[steffo]

Average about 50mpg in mine.I have seen 60 on a run when I was taking it steady