I just bought a skoda fabia 1.4 mpi on Sunday, I put £10 in the tank on Monday at 100.9 pence a litre and the petrol marker is indicating that it's almost gone! It's gone from just under half a tank to just over 1/4 a tank but I've only done 35 miles. Is it one of those cars where the petrol marker tricks you or is there a problem?

sounds right.

fill it to the brim and monitor consumption over a tank.

then you will know

I'm going to see what I've got when the marker actually hits the 1/4 marker and I used to do this with my last car (a nissan sunny '93) and I was getting 70-80 miles to £10. It doesn't help that you can't compare accurately when petrol prices round here change practically every day. I just can't understand why it seems to have used 10 litres of petrol for 35 miles?

I think you should be getting about 70 miles from each bar, thats how I work mine on my vRS, first bar is about 70 miles in town and then every bar I work out as 50 miles, I'm on course to getting 300 town miles out of the car this week.

10 litres in my mpi would be about 60 miles.

I seem to get about 130 from the first half the tank and then 100 from the second half.

However I think I may have a few bugs going on as my mpg seems to be falling all the time at the moment.

I'm starting to think it might be the MAF sensor now as was reading that problems with the MAF could lead to a random juddering of the car which I sometimes get and poor mpg.

I think you should be getting about 70 miles from each bar, thats how I work mine on my vRS, first bar is about 70 miles in town and then every bar I work out as 50 miles, I'm on course to getting 300 town miles out of the car this week.

Ouch 645 out of mine this week brim to brim:thumbup:

Just put some air in my tyres this morning as a last throw of the dice before sending mine to the garage they were down a lot more than I thought.

How bigger a difference does they tyre pressures make to fuel consumption.

Would it be as much 4-5mpg?

Just put some air in my tyres this morning as a last throw of the dice before sending mine to the garage they were down a lot more than I thought.

How bigger a difference does they tyre pressures make to fuel consumption.

Would it be as much 4-5mpg?

yup

My wife's 1.4 MPi gets about 32mpg in town, so at today's rates, I'd expect a tenner to last you about 70 miles. Don't forget, though, that the light / beeper comes on when you have about a gallon left, so if your tank really was empty when you filled up, then 35 miles would be about right. Also, the tank is narrower at the bottom than the top, which is why the first 'half-tank' appears to last longer than the second...

HTH

PS: That reminds me, must check my tyres at lunchtime...

I agree with the 70miles per £10 thats what I was geting when things were going well even when the temp sensor needed changing I was getting around 60 but now I am struggling to get that.

I get about 25miles when the beep comes on.

Can't believe how far down the tyres were I didn't chek them that long ago.