Mat Mc

Just reading another thread and started thinking about fuel figures?

MY02 WRX

150 miles to halfway on the gauge, 250 miles to redlight.

Normally get 48 litres in the 60 litre tank

Did 330 miles once and got 56 - 57 litres in?

Any comments?

How sad am I?

Nick Martin

Eeked out 347, Thursday last week, Tonbridge to Cromer and back.
bottled out on going any further as it was flashing and i could see a Shell garage. On Filling up went to 56litres with fuel up to the cap.
Very steady (read boring) driving in an '02 WRX.

Gary C

Depends on how faraway the tank is....

Oh, silly me. I seem to be getting ~200 miles out of a tank

STi-8 without PPP (ATM)

Krade

ooohh arent you lucky? having a low fuel light, jdm dont have them so the most I've ever done on a tank is 230 miles the needle was on the bottom of the white E and took 48.7 ltrs to fill till it stopped so I guess I cut that pretty close

Mat Mc

Their not that bad on fuel really. I did panick when I first got it and the light came on at 250miles but, realised the tank was not really empty when I filled up.

I really notice the difference in economy between long journeys and round town though, luckily Im a bog trotter so don't have it as bad as the poor old city folk!

[Edited by Mat Mc - 11/24/2003 11:42:54 AM]

talizman

iTrader: (1)

There must be something wrong with my fuel tank cos if I can reach 200 miles between fill-ups, I'm doing well! (STi 8PPP)

Krade,
You still had 11 litres left so plenty life in the old dog!

Gary C

Talizman, you obviously have a lead foot

Think yourselves lucky, last march I did a 3500 mile trip to Italy and back in an EVO 5 with its patheticly sized tank and low MPG.
Mind you, only took 17 hours to go from Milan to Lancaster, including hanging about for the ferry.

LIDDO

Im gettin on a bad week, 200, on a "Take it Easy" week, if there ever is one I get 250-280. Thats outta my Chipped / Cat Back Magnexed Wagon. Not too bad really

jason4656

i have just been workin this out, funny my fuel light never comes on either, any reason? i have had it to the white line once. But i got 222miles then refilled, 48litres seems about average at that i have my01 uk car no ppp

RB5_245

It all depends on what type of tank you have, i hear the sherman tank is not so good

[Edited by RB5_245 - 11/24/2003 1:04:21 PM]

Scratch

iTrader: (1)

MY98 with exhaust mods.

I get 250-260 to the light usually, and occassionally a little more.

Never get over 300 miles before refilling.

Beemer_Deano

In my MY01 WRX, the most I ever got was 310 miles to a tank.... and that was on a trip through Wales at very sedate speeds (GF and dog in car). Average was about 250.

My MY03 WRX averages 280 per tank, I get 300+ on motorway runs even with speeds varying from 60-100 MPH. Best so far is 347..... and I wasn't hanging about either.

On both the light comes on when I've got about 30 miles left, and I've never managed to get more than 56 litres in either, even when kangarooing the car into the petrol station (not advisable). I think that last 4/5 litres is for ballast or something

Deano

[Edited by Beemer_Deano - 11/24/2003 1:28:00 PM]

dosenöffner

200 miles in a MY97.

80 - 120 miles in my old STi RA depending on how I drove.

dosenöffner

Not quite. Wasn't until 97 IIRC that the tanks went to 60 litres. They were 50 litres on the earlier cars.

Silvafox

iTrader: (1)

Average of 210 per full tank from light on 'till full. About 55 litres is most I've had in. Thats with 'nervously' driving 20 miles with the light on trying to limp into the next Shell station!

Fatman

I average about 260 miles to a tank, and typically fill up with around ~48 litres of fuel. i.e. 21 mpg.

talizman

iTrader: (1)

I assume Krade has a 50 litre tank then?

According to SIDC, all cars came with a 60 litre tank, however there is small print at bottom of page querying whether pre96 cars had a 50 litre tank.....

EddScott

Haven't had my car for a while but its a UK MY00 and in standard form I got 300 out of a tank of optimax. I think now with the de-cat zorst I'm only going to get about 260. I'm a bit miffed that the zorst seems to have dropped the mpg so badly and its what put me off getting an atmos DV as they can make mpg even worse apparently.

Its not all bad as I don't actually drive that far week to week and I've only filled her up 3 times and I've had the car since 5th October.

Krade

Thats wierd because I could have sworn my tank goes further with a decat than it did with out. At least another 15-20 miles.

Anyone else experienced this?

Neil W

MY01 WRX (decat) 280miles medium driving.

Now changed to STi8 and so far got 85miles out of the first quarter of a tank. Below 4k though!

6 pot

Why drive an Impreza and then worry about fuel consumption, if its an issue buy a diesel.

My Silver MY03 WRX 120 miles to half a tank 190 miles to vapour only.

Katana

Don't bloody remind me. Still trying my best to justify the cost of keeping my RA. I swear you get more mileage in an M3..

6 pot

Yeh but scooby's woop the ***** of M3's

Katana

Without a shadow of a doubt mate.

kend

MY01WRX wagon
un-modded
Never more than 190 miles, then usually get 48-49 litres in.
2/3 of my driving is around Birmingham within the speed limit. The other 1/3 is emergency response driving, so usually 5-6000 rpm, can almost see the needle plunge down into the red

Andrewj

"Why drive an Impreza and then worry about fuel consumption, if its an issue buy a diesel"

Not all of us have got money to burn, that's why. The mix of half decent fuel economy and blazing performance is what most of us are looking for.

I earn reasonable money but have two teenage children and a recently acquired expensive divorce. The scoob keeps me sane...its just nice to be able to push 30mpg now and again.

Best ever tank full was 330. MY99 Turbo.

Mikkk

Just worked out a quick trip I did from Bristol to Southampton last week after first getting my STi8 (standard) ... clocked out 162 miles using £22 of fuel in the process -> 27mpg. The words Nun and nervous spring to mind for the bulk of that trip mind you (95% A-roads, 5% motorway)

Speaking of mpg in general, I bought the Scoob to *save* money, and it is. My previous car/tank clocked a mighty 13mpg, and that was on a motorway cruise

Some people just don't know what a true thirsty car is

[Edited by Mikkk - 11/24/2003 5:11:35 PM]

6 pot

To get 30mpg I think you would have to push it, or maybee drive in reverse.

burnz

iTrader: (1)

MY00,
Full decat,Ecutek remap,Uprated fuel pump
I get between 300-310 out of every tank, that's with two different drivers and a mixture of town/motorway.
Can't really grumble at that.

iDLe*

Never more than 185 per tank of Opti in a MY02 WRX standard. Got less than that in the first few weeks but now I've chilled out a little.