I really need some help regarding my car,

These are the Official Goverment Figures for my car,

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And these are the same figures that Hyundai present on their website

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I am having a problem with my car of excessive thirst. The car is supposed to be able to do 31MPG (Urban, Cold) yet is managing around 25.4MPG. Last night it was took on an Extra urban run to Leighton Buzzard, where I managed a staggering 25.5MPG. Is it me or is that a little bit far off of Hyundai's claim of 53.3MPG.

I filled the car up last night at a petrol station, when the distance to empty was reading 32 Miles. After putting in 11 litres of fuel the figure rose to just 92 Miles to empty. It knocked 2 miles off of that figure in about 900 yards. A Mile seems to last about 0.25 Miles.

I would love to put this all down to computer error, but lo and behold in around 92miles time, the needle will be wrapped around the end of the petrol guage.

What I need to know, is where do I stand "Legally" In this matter. Surely it's illeagal to tell someone that the car can do these figures when in reality it can't.

All tyres are correctly inflated, The Gearbox is left in D. I am using the minimum amount of throttle possible to reach the desired speed (which is obeying speed limits) and I am coasting as much as possible, yet I get no more MPG. If anyone has watched Jeremy Clarkson go for ages in an Audi A8, that is how hard I concentrated. It is most definatley not my driving. The car has done just 3,000 Miles and obviously is in good serviced condition.

There was a problem with Pre-Facelift Models giving MPG readings in american MPG which I think is 4 rather than 4 and a half litres of fuel (Or something like that), but apparantley this was fixed in the Facelift models.

I Am thinking of making my first step writing or phoning Hyundai UK, or should I go to the Dealership first?

Has the car been checked over? Sticking rear brakes could be causing such a drop in mpg.......

Chris

There has to be a problem with the car surely, a 1.4, even with auto box should be doing high 30's for sure.

Get it booked in to be looked at, and be persistant.

Sorry, in answer to your question, yes, go to the dealer first.

Sorry, in answer to your question, yes, go to the dealer first.

Just rang my dealer, thaier franchise wal pulled last week and they are no longer a Hyundai Dealer:mad:

Nearest to me now is St albans, bedford or Milton Keynes. It will use like £10 in petrol to get there

Just rang St.Albans,

Apparantley alot of people ring up with the problem, and the quoted figures seem to be pulled out of Hyundai's Ar5e

The dealer would do a dignostic check, if that turned up okay they would simply do the old fashioned way of filling it and driving it. If there was no further explination for the excessive thirst Hyundai HQ is the way to go for mis-selling a product:mad:

Fuel gauges are notoriously rubbish. The best thing to do is to brim the car - wait until the pump cuts out, let the fuel settle and fill again until the pump cuts out the second time. Reset your trip and drive around. When it's nearly empty (it doesn't matter exactly when), go back to the same fuel pump and do exactly the same thing as before. The fuel you put in the second time is the fuel you used driving the distance shown on the trip.

I write the trip distance on the fuel receipt and collect them all up. You'll get an even better average (eventually cancelling out randomness in the pump cut-off level) over a couple of tank-fulls.

FWIW, my Octavia just about meets the Combined Cycle figure (54 mpg) and my driving is a mix of town, country and Motorway. The indicated mpg is about 10% too high and the miles-til-empty figure always falls faster than I'm driving (it starts off at about 700 miles, but the tank is empty after 550).

J

Yep I agree, thats a good idea to get your benchmark figures atleast.

My Furby returned better than the gov't figures all the time I had it (once broken in)

Get rid & get a Skoda

Fuel gauges are notoriously rubbish. The best thing to do is to brim the car - wait until the pump cuts out, let the fuel settle and fill again until the pump cuts out the second time. Reset your trip and drive around. When it's nearly empty (it doesn't matter exactly when), go back to the same fuel pump and do exactly the same thing as before. The fuel you put in the second time is the fuel you used driving the distance shown on the trip.

I write the trip distance on the fuel receipt and collect them all up. You'll get an even better average (eventually cancelling out randomness in the pump cut-off level) over a couple of tank-fulls.

FWIW, my Octavia just about meets the Combined Cycle figure (54 mpg) and my driving is a mix of town, country and Motorway. The indicated mpg is about 10% too high and the miles-til-empty figure always falls faster than I'm driving (it starts off at about 700 miles, but the tank is empty after 550).

J

Well Luckily I don't need to do that,

It's booked in to a Garage in Bedford for Friday the 13th:O . They will run diagnostic checks to see if there are any faults, then they will do what you have described. If they cant get it to do any more MPG I will have to take the dealerships findings to Hyundai's head office. If they can't do anything about it then I need advice on where I stand legally, you surely can't sell a car to someone that is advertised as doing twice the MPG it can actually.

Im hoping I can then return it and get an A2 1.4TDI, and chip it upto 110BHP

In theory, on extra urban runs it is using twice the petrol it should, even if the computer is wrong, it is incredibly thirsty. My Octavia II 1.6 8v was using half the fuel, and that was being well and truly thrashed.

what car is this? hyundai display is in mpg - g's being the smaller USA measure.

what they are showing MP 3.5ish Litres against MP 4.5ish Litres?

what they are showing MP 3.5ish Litres against MP 4.5ish Litres?

Facelift Models like mine are now dispalying MPG (with a gallon as 4.55 Litres) rather than the American 3.79 Litres. Even if it was american it will still be far from the average of 42.2 or 53.3 Extra Urban