Help pls re excessive fuel consumption!

[timmne]

Hi all,

I was registered on this forum a couple of years ago and now I'm back, hoping that someone will be able to help me out!

My 2004 expression 1.2 16v has recently been costing me a bomb in fuel - I hadn't noticed until this evening when I've lost another couple of bars and I've only driven about 40 miles (I can usually get about 80 out of 2 bars)....

I'm sure it's not me being paranoid as it really is plummeting - does anyone know what is wrong, if anything?

What about getting one of those bottles from QVC or similar that you stick in the fuel tank - do they work?

Cheers in advance!

 

[davebem]

Could by loads of things, its definatly not right. could be a blocked air filter, when did it last have a service, could be the lambda sensor, or it could be a fuel injection system fault which will be expensive. Could be a ignition fault. Is there lots of smoke from the exhaust? can you smell petrol?

 

[timmne]

No and no to the last 2 questions ...

Due to have a service in the next month or so - it's just gone over 50k miles....

Does it sound worth bringing this forward?

(Dave you live in Leicestersh!te too!)

 

[edde]

No and no to the last 2 questions ...

Due to have a service in the next month or so - it's just gone over 50k miles....

Does it sound worth bringing this forward?

(Dave you live in Leicestersh!te too!)

Always a good idea servicng the car.

Does it smell of petrol etc?

 

[timmne]

No smell of petrol - although the brakes seem to be squeeking a lot recently! Not sure it's connected although the service will help that too I suppose....

 

[Cro]

Turned out I had a broken carboniser cap that was causing my poor fuel consumption, something that is only checked if asked to. Didnt realise until the engine was being ripped out

 

[Phoenix]

stop flooring it lol....alternativly complain to brown about petrol prices again £0.98 here for 95 octaine