172 - How much Fuel to a tank or tenner

[D1CKY]

Outta curiousity whats everyone getting to a tank of fuel ?

As i put in a tenner of V Power yesterday @ £106.9 per litre and only got about 70-80 miles and the petrol light came on

Does this sound about right ?

Think i'll go fillit right up tomorrow and see what i get to a tank

 

[ClioMatt172]

That V Power is a con, I filled up on it once and only averaged an extra 2mpg. Im getting around 250-260 miles from a normal tank of fuel.

 

[Charlieboy]

You don't get any more miles from v power, thats not what you get it for

 

[FantomUk]

It does seem to last alot longer when I put V Power in mine. Probs not worth it in the short term, but it is a cleaner fuel so the occasional tank wouldnt hurt.

 

[Fletcher]

I find mine idles much better on v-power, not alot of difference in performance, and mpg imo.

 

[Timmay]

i usually use vpower bp ultimate or whatever is available - usually gett he same results

 

[Ali]

fella go to Sainsbury. 102.9 for super! And it's BP ultimate. Both from grangemouth!

I get 100miles to 30£ think yourself lucky!

 

[*Badger*]

Full Tank - 46 or so litres @ 106.9p at the moment.
325 miles per tank.
So thats 10.2 gallons, which is near enough 32mpg.
(Even though the computer says 34.8!)
Around £50 to fill the tank, = 15.3p per mile!

 

[Fred@BTM]

50L tank from dry

 

[-Leigh-]

50L tank from dry

That's worrying, I managed to fit 49.xx litres in Wednesday?!?!

Edit: Sorry read the reciept wrong lol. £49.52 worth, 44.25 litres lol

 

[realnumber 1]

when I first picked my car up it took £50 @ about 1.03l must have been running on the dreggs!

 

[marky-f1]

280 in the f1 so far and ill just make it to the petrol station later on lol

 

[-Leigh-]

How big is the tank though?

As sometimes I only get 280 miles.

 

[Little Richie]

Its a 10 gallon tank IIRC. So 45 or so litres.

 

[.Gem.]

naff all lol

 

[-Leigh-]

Its a 10 gallon tank IIRC. So 45 or so litres.

ph2 clios have 50 litre tanks, so I'd imagine the mk3's to have the same or bigger?!? Not smaller surely?

 

[-Leigh-]

55 litres apparently.

 

[SCOTT_182CUP]

normally around 350 miles but worst was 7.1 mpg on trackday which wasn't too bad i thought

 

[riz]

300 miles for me

 

[The Chubby Pirate]

This again

I dont see what the problem is, "hot-hatch" And economy dont go together! If you want to go to the moon and back on a tank of fuel buy a Citroen C1, 993cc 3 cylinder bad boy, mother has one.

780 mile to a tank and £15 for road tax.

It wouldnt pull your granny of your grandad but then it wasnt designed for that!

 

[riz]

This again

I dont see what the problem is, "hot-hatch" And economy dont go together! If you want to go to the moon and back on a tank of fuel buy a Citroen C1, 993cc 3 cylinder bad boy, mother has one.

780 mile to a tank and £15 for road tax.

It wouldnt pull your granny of your grandad but then it wasnt designed for that!

When you do 600 miles a week, it is nice to know if your fuel ecomony is ok.

 

[Fletcher]

This again

I dont see what the problem is, "hot-hatch" And economy dont go together! If you want to go to the moon and back on a tank of fuel buy a Citroen C1, 993cc 3 cylinder bad boy, mother has one.

780 mile to a tank and £15 for road tax.

It wouldnt pull your granny of your grandad but then it wasnt designed for that!

When my Citroen van goes in for servicing, i quite often have one of these as a courtesy car i quite like them

 

[DrR]

what pikey puts £10 in, not worth the effort

 

[phantomx0_1]

LOL above!!!

 

[coatesy]

tenner gets me 50miles

 

[Blarno]

I don't really pay attention to the mpg I get out of mine. I only use a tank and a bit a month. It's not far off the economy of the Missus' 1.6 Vectra, though.

 

[LegoHead]

I did about 20 miles to two notches yesterday, got very, very lost in bournemouth.

 

[realnumber 1]

This again

I dont see what the problem is, "hot-hatch" And economy dont go together!

Thats one of the great things about the 1*2's imo they do go together
Can't beat a bit of thread resurrection lol.

 

[iloveics]

400 miles a tank 43 litre tank, whats my mpg?

 

[Juego]

I get about 50 - 70 miles to a tenner. I have 3/4 a tank atm tho computer says i'll get 265 miles to it at 26.4mpg. It's drinking fuel atm due to my lambda sensor being screwed. New one in the car tho so will see if i can beat 371miles before a wee top up

 

[kenny172]

what pikey puts £10 in, not worth the effort

Me constantly, Knowing the fact that if theres a tank of fuel in it il just go waste it simply because i can.

 

[Juego]

what pikey puts £10 in, not worth the effort

Me constantly, Knowing the fact that if theres a tank of fuel in it il just go waste it simply because i can.

Seconded! If i put more fuel in the more i'll drive

 

[benmore]

if I drive sensibly, 70 miles to 10 quid, 90 if I go proper granny.

fastish driving, 60.

flat out maybe 25 at best lol.. seemed that way...

usually stick 20 or 40 vpower in when I fill up so, whatever financies allow

 

[Brett]

That sounds like good economy to me. My 1.2 averages 38 mpg, thats driving normally around town to work and back etc at rush hour so i'm using loads of petrol not even moving.

 

[W111ALG]

The coilpack on my Cup failed recently and I had my girlfriends 1.2 16V for 3 days. My commute is 25miles about 70% DC and 30% town driving. I don't normally push the car that hard or drive grannyish/. My 172 normally gets 36-40mpg. The 1.2 only managed 40-43 so not a massive differenence considering the performance difference. I did find caus eI'v ebeen used to driving faster car that I had to push the 1.2 a bit more.....

 

[The Chubby Pirate]

This again

I dont see what the problem is, "hot-hatch" And economy dont go together!

Thats one of the great things about the 1*2's imo they do go together
Can't beat a bit of thread resurrection lol.

It might very well do 40mpg and im not disputing that.

But it was built with the intention that they were to be driven fast making for poorer fuel economy although i must admit before i got the 172 i thought it would have been alot worse than this lol

 

[RichCup]

I've had just over 400 with granny/sensible driving from full lol. When pushing the fun pedal more I usually see about 320 - 340.