172 MPG

[Cj/Denmark]

What are your experience? With / without mods?



-CJ

 

[Sport182]

i get about 28 from my mk1 172

 

[KDF]

If I floor it all the time 28mpg, if I take it as easy as possible I have seen up to 36mpg.

 

[Just Bob]

Hi CJ

I see quite a few of these cars during the week and I always check the trip computer to see what MPG the owners are running at.

I have seen as low as 19.8 to 39.9 MPG

Depends, obviously, how you drive it!

Bob RTE

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[BigBoreBri]

Mines forever between 29-34mpg no matter how hard or soft i drive it, guess it must just be down to the local roads and that. Only mod ive got at the mo is a green filter

 

[norfolkminis]

I do a 25 mile run to work every day and I see approx 38mpg. This is with occassional blats past the legal limit

 

[Cord-172]

26.8 on average...very precise!!!!

 

[Jim172CUP]

yeah my Cup seems to sit at 33 no matter how i drive it. Av per tank is 25 i think. On a run its not too bad but i only use it to get to work and back really so it does 10-15 miles a day lol

 

[Viv172]

Mine always says 30.5 from when i started using optimax, 30 on standard unleaded...

 

[Robby]

when i got mine it showed 39.5, i reset it and cant get above 35.7 now - seemed worse with optimax so ive gone back to normal unleaded (i only do maybe 40-50 miles a week)

 

[Cj/Denmark]

Ok - not too bad I guess. The only black mkI 172 in Denmark might be for sale...Huuuhaaaa....



-CJ

 

[Toby172]

I get around 30 mpg doing short distances stuck in traffic.

The best Ive seen was about 47 doing about 50 or 60 mph on the motorway due to traffic, but I get around 40/42mpg if I drive sensibly on the motorway i.e. averaging around 80mph.

 

[KDF]

I have seen 64mpg in my 172...

though I did kinda cheat a bit by resetting it and driving really lightly for 0.3 of a mile and then just drifting downhill for ages..

 

[rocko]

I havnt reset for about 2000 miles and Ive got a reading of 39.6mpg.

 

[RSTDL]

12000 miles in cup = 39/40mpg with noe motorway driving! Suddenly jumped from 34?

 

[compocup]

ANYTHING FROM 28 COLD TO 45 ON A 50MPH TOURING RUN (THESE RUNS DO NOT HAPPEN VERY OFTEN - DIFFICULT TO GO SLOW!!!)

 

[viceroy]

6.4 litres per 100km if I drive very carefully and watch the mileage continually all the way to about 9.9 litres per 100km if i give it some real stick.

Sitting in traffic jams can push the figure as high as 15 litres per 100km

I average about 9 litres per 100km

 

[poundrick]

Well I got an average on the motorway last night of 52.3, my Cup usually does around 32 to 35 mpg.

 

[Moogwai5]

only owned the 172 for a week now but up to about 24mpg, it probably just me but i cant get the current mpg to come up, realise that it only does after 15mph but all i seem to get is the average displayed.

 

[Nik]

Yeah, i was going to say the same Moogwai, i seem to remember the manual saying that you could display the current MPG (over 15mph) as well as the average one (based on the time since last reset) but i cant get that to display either.

 

[jonnyboy]

mine is always on 31.5 no matter what I do to it. Girlfreind drives it very conservatively during the week and I thrash the b****cks off it at weekends and it just stays the same.

How do you reset it?

 

[Jim172CUP]

got mine down to the fuel light today. said i could do another 30 odd miles then gave up and displayed --------

 

[sjd172]

how do you reset the dam thing ?

I spent the best part of and hours drive trying to "double click" it today.

Any ideas ?

 

[cerbera4.5]

lol mine did that! - - - - trip comp said id only used 8.5 gallons out of an APPROX!! 11 loads left i thought 10.2 gallons used,conked out,,bugger.. did a good 60-70 miles after light came on ,havent seen mpg below 35.5,optimax seems to get better results,average about 37-38 mpg

 

[Jim172CUP]

press the reset button on the display, where the glass is? ermmm hard to explain, look in the book )

 

[sjd172]

Dammm I am a fool !!!!

I was trying to do it on the damm stalk !

Cheers Jim

 

[Jim172CUP]

was getting it down to empty to do an optimax test, went to the garage and when fillin up saw the price of the stuff is 83p f**k putting a full tank of that in and settled for a tenners worth )