Jolly Green Monster 2

I am in shock... I thought the petrol consumption was better but OMG worked out the figures and 31mpg.

I am skint and things don't look like improving for a bit but I am refusing to sell the Scooby... so instead I have been driving with a very light right foot.. and the result it a reasonable MPG!

Damn boring though..

JGM

DIXIE

Impossable the car must have been on a trailer

Dixie.

Jolly Green Monster 2

LOL@Dixie.

No just off boost the whole tankful.. well tankful and £10..

it is an early car with the TD05 so there is nothing below 3000rpm so I just changed up at 3000rpm or eailer and cruised at 70mph..

Not been a good this week.. that Turbo rush is just too much to stay off for long!

chiark

It's shocking, innit? I got this a couple of weeks back driving to Milton Keynes and back. One tank of fuel, 320 miles, still quite a bit left in the tank...

I felt like complaining

Jolly Green Monster 2

I did 432miles on a tankfull and £10...

I cannot remember the number of litres now but it was honestly 31mpg.......

I have not got better than 28mpg before.

This was all motorway mind....

JGM

johnwiz

iTrader: (26)

Hi JGM,
I must say well done, I've never managed better than 26/27 mpg & a lot of that was motorway! Anyone know what model turbo I have
(UK MY97)?
Also a lot of people have reported getting 300 or more miles out of a tankful, I never get much more than 200.
(The joys of living in London I suppose)
Cheers, John

chiark

Should add that I don't normally see more than 220, too. The last few miles up the motorway were done in disbelief, as was putting in less than 50 litres . Ended up looking at the pump accusingly...

Jolly Green Monster 2

I think the 97 was the first of the VF series, someone else will know the exact model.

It is a smaller turbo and so comes in eailer so it is harder I believe to get as good MPG as you cannot rev it much without the turbo spooling up and pushing that fuel through.

I get really good consumption on the 200miles I do on a monday and on the way home of a Friday cruising home, but in-between going throgh town the consumption is crap.

Just last weekend I drove motorway at the weekend and then the 200miles on monday so could maintain cruising off boost for 432miles.

JGM

Jolly Green Monster 2

I regularly get about 280miles from a tank but again most of that is motorway.

JGM

Mo

JGM,

I normally get 190 miles from a tank in my uk 94 wagon! But coming back through France last year I took it easy after a blow out at 120mph and got 34mpg. It was on the autoroute though only stopping for tolls and the odd layby.

It can be done

but it aint no fun!

Jolly Green Monster 2

yes it is boring as hell... but it is either that or sell it at the moment..

Doh... mine is a Wagon too... MY96

JGM