On average what are people getting out of their Felicias? My brother is getting 75miles to £10 @ 120.9p which works out at just over 40mpg and this was around town which I'm happy with. How big is the fuel tank and how many miles to a tank are people normally getting?

Thanks in advance.

Martyn

Tank is about 9.5 gallons and 40mpg is pretty good; lots of people get less!!

Unless of course, we are taking about the 1.9D, in which case 40ish is pants.

On a longish cross country route, mixed with some town driving, my son's 1.3mpi was getting 44-48 mpg.

After replacing the thermostat and temp. sensor I got 90 miles for £10, before replacement I was lucky to get 50 miles for £10. I'm just working my way through a full tank atm.

Edited 19 April, 201016 yr by ONW

I am getting 49.9 on average out of my 1.9d with 115k miles on the clock clean oil new air filter and correct tyre pressures

My 1.3 Felly yr 2000 (50KW) does an average of around 36mpg. Not brilliant for a small engine.On a run up to 45mpg. I have had it since new and it has never got any better- or worse. Well looked after - by me.

Strange, inner city with lots of traffic jams??

My son drives thru Wolverhampton twice a day and managed mid 40's in the "Punishment" P plate estate

I'm getting about 41mpg on a full tank, but that was with a heavy foot. Will try again being a lot more careful.

I'm getting about 41mpg on a full tank, but that was with a heavy foot. Will try again being a lot more careful.

Petrol ,Diesel what engine?

Petrol, 1.3 mpi.

My diesel with 95k on the clock normally returns 50-52mpg for A/B road motoring. 48mpg if driven 'enthusiastically' or at 75-80mph (indicated) on the motorway. Just completed an 860 mile round trip of predominantly motorway driving, cruising at 60-65 (again indicated), and brim-to-brim somehow squeezed 63mpg out of the old girl in both directions. Made my 25p/mile fuel entitlement rather profitable!

I only get 28/29 on city driving and 35ish on a run, is that quite poor for a felicia?

I only get 28/29 on city driving and 35ish on a run, is that quite poor for a felicia?

Which engine/model? The 1.3 can manage 40+, but it varies a lot depending on how well maintained it is; as you mentioed a thermostat problem in a new thread,, changing the scrap one (and housing), for new upgraded ones from jorily could make a difference, as could using better oil.

Although saying that, my son reports a great improvement in his knackered felly after an oil change, and he used the £9.99 stuff from Lidl!!

Although saying that, my son reports a great improvement in his knackered felly after an oil change, and he used the £9.99 stuff from Lidl!!

I can beat that! I once used £4 oil from Wilkinsons in my Astra. £4 for 5 litres!

Edited 28 April, 201016 yr by kai_mitsurugi

I can beat that! I once used £4 oil from Wilkinsons in my Astra. £4 for 5 litres!

Isnt that only supposed to be used on your razor??

Just filled up from brim to brim after 333miles,getting 46mpg right now.

reference link to reciept :

http://bit.ly/MPG1stMay10

I envy you 40+ mpg'ers.

With hypermiling techniques I get usually 49.24MPG Imp (about 41MPG US) in normal city driving (big city with a lots of traffic jams)

Before that when I used to use only eco driving techniques I managed to get about 37MPG Imp (31MPG US).

Not bad I think.

(Felicia 1.3 MPI 50kW)

Edited 17 August, 201114 yr by PeterRRC

Here's a strange one

My 1.6 Felicia(with engine mods) gets me about 34-36mpg but i drive relatively hard in it. offical figures say combioned should be around 38mpg so not bad in all for a car with over 100,000

My Fabia 1.4 classic(standrad petrol) gets me a real 55mpg(trip computer thinks 61mpg) from a full tank! and the offical combined figures for that is 39.2mpg

I drive the fabia very gently and use many hypermiling techniques. it's so slow it's hard to drive fast in it anyway! lol

My Fabia 1.4 classic(standrad petrol) gets me a real 55mpg(trip computer thinks 61mpg) from a full tank! and the offical combined figures for that is 39.2mpg

I drive the fabia very gently and use many hypermiling techniques. it's so slow it's hard to drive fast in it anyway! lol

Very envious. Although I must admit I tend to drive with a heavy right foot and take on the BMW's and Subaru's trying to overtake me on dual carriageways on roundabouts. I do generally otherwise drive with fuel economy in mind, keeping to highest gear possible for the engine to run without lugging, coasting in gear to red lights, minimal use of brakes and so on. I guess the key thing I should be doing is accelerating slowly (taking the "I'm faster than you" BMW's etc on the chin) - but I doubt I'll be getting anywhere near 55mpg, not even on a long run.

Well my record on a long run is 64.2mpg and have the video on my blackberry to prove... it was on my daily commute to work or should i say from work to home it's a 32 miles drive on A roads and dual carriage way and it was with the engine cold at start. but to achieve that i didn't go over 45mph once!!!(had a little queue of cars behind me by the end)

I think averaging 45mpg is realistic on the Fabia 1.4 mpi engines. so get your trip computer to read 50mpg(as i find trip is about 5mpg over actual figure)

don't get me wrong though i do plenty of overtaking still maybe about 4-5 cars a day. :-)

This is the person that used to get 34mpg from his 3.0ltr modified(track spec on slicks and over 120kg of weight shed) 23yr old Porsche 944 S2.(Recently sold)

just drive slower anewman and don't let other cars influence your driving in any way... try for 50mpg on the trip with a cold start... i know you can do it!!!!

I Have 43kw 1.3 engine which is with old type carburetor. I can average about 34,6 mpg, mostly city driving.

I believe, that not slow accelerations but hard accelerations are the ones which save fuel.

1st gear- near full gas up to 2500rpm, 2nd- full throttle up to 3000rpm and then switch to 5th. which results legal limit cruising speed @ 1500rpm (you can barely hear the engine!).

Acceleration is the main fuel spender, so getting up to speed fast is more economical than going through all the gears, using half the throttle and blocking traffic, try it. Just check your rpm.

Even car schools recommend accelerating at near or full throttle, just watch your rpm- over 2000 with newer cars is not necessary, with felly, well...

edit: you can read about it in here as well http://www.insightcentral.net/KB/faq-efficiency.html#acceleration

Edited 18 August, 201114 yr by Guest

Hi Andrew,

Fast acceleration is very important but you want to avoid high rpms. Since 2.5k rpms are ok, 3k rpm looks like too high for me. Another very important thing is LOD (engine load) - you want to keep about 75%-80% of LOD during pulses (acceleration) - it's most efficient way to saving fuel (look at BSFC - Brake Specific Fuel Consumption chart/graph). When you use 75-80% of LOD the engine works in optimal FE.

On 18/08/2011 at 19:40, PeterRRC said:

Hi Andrew,

Fast acceleration is very important but you want to avoid high rpms. Since 2.5k rpms are ok, 3k rpm looks like too high for me. Another very important thing is LOD (engine load) - you want to keep about 75%-80% of LOD during pulses (acceleration) - it's most efficient way to saving fuel (look at BSFC - Brake Specific Fuel Consumption chart/graph). When you use 75-80% of LOD the engine works in optimal FE.

Sorry for digging up an old thread, but the last thing mentioned above is actually more complicated than that.

About Optimal BSFC for 1.3 mpi, it is sort of between 2-3k rpm and between 50-80% of engine load.
To use that you should try keeping to the lower end of that spectrum, and to add onto the complexity the throttle position vs engine load depends also on rpm.
At low rpm there is very little difference in power produced between throttle half open and full open, while it matters a lot at high rpm.
So if we wan't to get into that optimal BSFC around 2k rpm we actually have to try open the thottle only around 1/3 way up, and opening it up a bit as the rpm goes up.

 

It would be much easier to hypermile that car with:

1. longer gearbox 

2. trip computer like the TC-6

3. custom ECU with a wideband O2 sensor and a fueling map with lean (16-17:1 instead of ~14.7:1) burn at low-mid rpm and low/mid engine load.

Edited 10 March, 20206 yr by Mariosti

There is a simpler answer. See that green zone marked on the tachometer? There's your answer.

I have calculated 9,5 lt/100km in my last ride. 

 

I have a 1993 LX 1.3 Carburator with LPG put on it (Not factory).  I run mostly a 20km ride, 15 min heavy traffic, 15 min highway. Average speed on highway 95km/h.