Fuel Economy

[Kieran]

One thing I've noticed since I last paid a visit to "Robin Blind" at Variava's in notts is that my fuel economy has nosedived.... before, I was getting about 30-31mpg... I'm now getting 25-26!!!:mad2:

First stop is some redex injector cleaner for the next few thousand miles INSERT INTO post VALUES (seemed to help before)... anybody else got any ideas?

[BraindG]

what fuel did you use that time?

[zedy1]

ease off the accelerator

[Kieran]

Originally posted by BraindG
what fuel did you use that time?

The GLS was originally run with Texaco Unleaded + Redex injector cleaner.... I then transferred to Shell Optimax INSERT INTO post VALUES (+cleaner untill it ran out) with no noticeable MPG loss.

Then It was serviced, I've been using Optimax since and it's slurping the go-go juice!:INSERT INTO post VALUES (

[SGHOM]

25 - 26 mpg ??? mmm onder: I dont think your ready for a VR4 just yet !!

[KiwiTT]

I would look at the tune-up they did at the service, for that level of usage.

Unless of course, you are wanting a VR-4 more and more and are pushing your GLS a little harder.

[Kieran]

The actuall MPG doesn't bother me, i'm just annoyed that it WAS considerably better before... if it had always pulled 25mpg, then I wouldn't be moaning!

[Kieran]

Originally posted by KiwiTT
Unless of course, you are wanting a VR-4 more and more and are pushing your GLS a little harder.

That's certainly a possibility. Not noticed anything different in my driving style, but my last service was just before Santa Pod........

[KiwiTT]

I noticed an increase in petrol usage, when I pushed my old car.

Do you have a switch for power and economy mode ?
Have you been accelerating a little harder at the lights ?
Have you altered your driving, using cruise control, when you didn't before, or something like that ?

I heard that driving at 10% more than normal can use 20% more fuel, due to the increase in wind resistance, to move the car forward at higher speeds.

[ritch_w]

i'm using normal unleaded and optimax, getting an average of 29mpg, thats a mix of town, long commute and back road thrashing, quite reaching speeds of sillyness!

cant complain about that, especially as i'm not paying for the petrol!!!!

[zedy1]

o right for some