did the first long distance journey in my scoob yesterday - exeter to japfest. Worked out it did on average 18mpg. o...m...g... I hate to imagine what it's doing for town driving!
On the plus side it did it in one tank comfortably.
For a 97 260hp is that good/bad/ok????

 

That's lousy, either you tow a caravan or it's faulty.

 

could be a duff lambda sensor, so running rich

 

id hate to run yours! i went from exeter also and used just over half a tank! that was 80-90 their and back! i swear since engine tuner maped it its better on fuel!

 

I use to get that in town with a 316bhp Spec C
You have an issue

Tony

 

i m getting around 20 21 round town in a 2.5 type uk pushing 316 bhp you must have a problem

 

awful I'm afraid, mine's PPP so about 260ish and it's doing 28mpg at the mo,

got 320 out the last tank, but that was a lot of motorway

 

im getting 25 round the town mines remapped to 280

 

Id be pretty impressed if it were unless its a new hatch back version
Most scoobs will do mid to high teens with 280bhp, my type R does about, oh, 18mpg in town, 320bhp, my spec c did about 16-18mpg, you see most other new age cars getting 16mpg in town, 25, damn ive had 150bhp cars that couldnt do that and those ran well

Tony

 

i think i've worked mine out correct, i put in £66 yesturday at 1.29.9 a litre and about 51 litres at a glance as receipt did'nt show how many litres i put in!!!! and got 300 miles from brim to empty so that works out at about 30 to the gallon does'nt it????

that was all motorway driving from essex to castle combe yday!!!!!!!

 

Thanks guys, alan jeffrey pm'd me to book it in... hope it won't be expensive!

Filled it to brim - 218 miles to just below 1/4 mark.

 

i got 18 in my version 4 from hull to thorpe park. doing about 100 off boost most of the way

 

Mine was on boost - comes on at 3k... was done that most of the way. Does that affect it hugely? (sorry only owned the scoob 1 month)

 

It has been remapped by enginetuner....!

 

oh lol! like has already been said i expect its lambda sensor! i noticed mine was smelling a bit rich and using more fuel,that turned out to be lambda sensor!!

 

Cheers danny will get that sorted asap - can't afford the mpg...........

 

my wr1 is running 350 bhp and i just get 240 out of it on a motoway run up to bradford from colchester , and thats at a steady 80 with the odd blast
i get about 220 round town ,

stu

 

I running 340/400 and get 28 around and about
and 34 on a run
a lot less when having fun

 

Sounds like good mileage to me

 

In town only you will be much lower, 180 to a tank, mixed will improve it (thats your 28mpg) and motorway will be higher, unlelss you do 56mph and that will be your 34

Tony

 

im running 330bhp and i get around 24mpg on motorway driving, dont know if thats gd or bad??

 

When I used to care I could get 25mpg. Couldn't tell you what I get since my remap as I haven't looked yet, but the throttle seems to go down further now

 

Worked my mpg out to be 11 Average :O very heavy right foot and short trips (6 miles to work)

on the flip side in my diesel remaped A4 driving like a tosser i get 35mpg drive that nice on a long run at 65-70mph and it can average 55mpg

 

Martyn mapped Scott's 627 bhp 2.1 stroker and he got 35 mpg on the way back to Scotland!
It doesn't take much of a fault to make a car that runs pretty well otherwise drink the gas. You just have to check it out if it drinks like Gazza ..

 

Alan is right, even the smallest of faults like a slightly out coolent temp sensor can put the MPG right up and make it run rich

 

 

i averaged 18mpg on saturday at Japfest
but that did include a track session
and a bit of anti lag showing off

 

I get about 50 miles to £10... tesco 99 @ £1.25

Whatever that is in mpg... 21ish??

'97 STI with about 340bhp

 

My Jeep does 15MPG average and 25 on a run - it is 4.0L mind you

Used to get easy 30+ from my mapped UK turbo. and about 22-25 from my type RA.

 

Last run out with the guys from LADS over to Hawes/Buttertubs with mixed driving in my 340 brake RA I got 100 miles to a full tank!!

I've just fitted a new lamba and a new water temp senser to try and improve things.