Fuel economy - 1.4 RT

[Rich-D]

Been down to see the GFs family (near Bath) this weekend and we took the RT as its got f*ck all miles on the clock (96 P-Reg @ 24k miles), plus is better on fuel than the other 2 cars...

Managed to get an amazing average of 44mpg over a 460 mile round trip and I was not driving economically either!!!

Basically just zipping down the motorway at about 80-90mph all the way and it used b*gger all fuel.

Winner!



What sort of mpg are other RT peeps getting?!

 

[STICKER TWONK]

Mines a 95 1.4RT with 78k on the clock.

Went to Swansea and back last week, round trip of around 500 miles and managed to get just over 300 mile out of a tank. Average city driving itll do 230-250 out of a tank, dunno what it works out as!!!

 

[Rich-D]

On the way down it was 240 miles to only £18 of fuel!!!

 

[big hp]

im jealous. Want that sort of economy on my 16v.

It spends half its life on a petrol station forecourt. Well it feels like that.

 

[STICKER TWONK]

240 mile out of £18 is very good though!!! Mine takes £29 to fill and like I said around 250 miles out of it if your lucky!

 

[steve_rt]

i can fill with about £28 quid (no more like £35 the way these prices are fixed - 77.9 the cheapest i found yest!!!) and get about 280 miles out of it.

 

[Rich-D]

Yup, I am amazed at how good it is!



Wish my 306 was that good...

I only got 32mpg out of it the other weekend on a similar long trip down south, Even though I was driving gently and just cruising at about 80mph most of the time.

Normally get about 28mpg driving to work and worse if I gun it.
In the Autocar roadtest, they managed to get it down to 10.4mpg!!!

The R5 is just as bad too.

 

[DTWD]

WHAT? £28? I can fill up for £22 and thats on a virtually empty tank (just before the light comes on) But usually under £20. I worked out what mine does, doing a variance of driving styles and different types of roads. Over the entire fuel tank it averaged at 48.5 miles per gallon. And thats with a lot of moterway driving. And renault say keep it under 3k revs and its economical, but moterway driving (at 70mph) is about 3.3k, but who does 70?

Paul

 

[STICKER TWONK]

What year is your RT DTWD? Mines a 95 and when it takes £28 itll have been on the red light for a while, usual about 20 mile so almost completly empty! I filled her up this morning and it was £29! Petrol is 75.9 as well were I live.

 

[clio_racer]

Running 16s and giving it stick to Portsmouth... I managed about 280 on a tank. Might need setting up though...

 

[DTWD]

Its a 91 J reg. Its 76.9 here i think. Maybe yours has a bigger tank.

Does anyone have the problem of the fuel gauge just taking a random guess at the fuel level? It seems to go through it really quickly and then sit at a 1/4 level for ages. Then after a bit of sitting there, maybe a few days, its starts dropping again. Then I fill her up just above the bottom line.



Paul

 

[clio_racer]

Yeah mine does that and mines a 91... can I have your front seats please!?

 

[STICKER TWONK]

Nah, mine just slowly goes down and says its empty, red light on and I can go for ages, gone for about 50 mile on red before, dunno how much reserve is in.