Mpg

[Troll]

Damn straight!

Plus the parts for it are beyond cheap. I do all the servicing myself so can do it in total for less than £30.

Although its finally got near 100k now so I have to get the cam belt changed which is something I cannot do myself...mostly as the tools are special and cost the same as the cam belt change.

What stupidity to use a belt rather than a chain on a diesel

[DimPrawn]

Chains become noisy and can break as well.

[TheFaQQer]

will do the Reading to Manchester run this afternoon and fill up again tomorrow as im convinced being sat on Reading ringroad for 45mins is the reason for the shockingly low mpg

Of course, you could go by train from Manchester to Reading....

[DimPrawn]

Of course, you could go by train from Manchester to Reading....

I'm sure it only costs about £100/day on the train.

[rootsnall]

Leicester -> Welwyn Garden City

200miles/day

50mpg (9.5p ish) - Ford Focus 1.8TDCi



If I was to do it in my lorry I would still get 12mpg....

Why does diesel get so much more to the gallon ? Better engine or better fuel. I toyed with getting a diesel Mondeo last week but plumped for what I knew, the 1 year old diesels were a grand or two more but with that margin of difference in MPG it would pay for itself in no time.

[Troll]

As an aside - I thought all new cars were going to go to 24volts so things like power steering & air con pumps could be run electric rather than off the engine drive thus reducing consumption further.

Not heard anything about it recently

[Troll]

Why does diesel get so much more to the gallon ? Better engine or better fuel. I toyed with getting a diesel Mondeo last week but plumped for what I knew, the 1 year old diesels were a grand or two more but with that margin of difference in MPG it would pay for itself in no time.

more efficient
HTH

[VectraMan]

Of course, you could go by train from Manchester to Reading....

What's the mpg of a train?

34mpg from my Primera, which is mostly on the motorway. That's according to the trip computer, which this morning told me I had only 8 miles before running out of fuel, so I filled up and only got 2/3rds of a tank in. Stupid thing.

Oh and it has a cam chain (as does my S2000).

[BoredBloke]

I get about 44mpg out of my Mondeo TDCi, but I don't tend to drive it at its most fuel efficient speed!

I'm only doing Rochdale to Leeds each day, about 40 miles and a tank does me for the whole week and a day. But that also covers me for the fact that the thing is in perpetual motion over the weekends. My last Mondeo had the old 90bhp engine. I could leave home on a Monday morning and get to Uxbridge (220 miles later) through rush hour traffic, do all my driving around down there and get back on the same tank at the end of the week. Again - never driven at the optimum speed for the best mpg.

Now cue Milan for tales of frugal diesel usage in his Passat. How it can get to the moon and back on a teaspoon of diesel.

[DimPrawn]

more efficient
HTH

Diesel as a fuel is more energy dense than petrol and the engine is more efficient too.

If you are covering huge distances on motorways then a modern Diesel makes sense. If you do like 8K miles pa. mostly in town, a small efficient petrol engine is best.