mpg for 180's

[markyzs180]

Originally Posted by Maxxed_Ross

that's because it's a predictive needle - IE it's telling you what you will use if you keep driving like that.

Never noticed that the needle plummets if you thrash it for a period but then rises back up to almost where it was when you lift off and drive normally again?

so the moral of the story is DON'T LOOK AT THE GAUGE WHEN YOU'RE RAGGING IT AROUND, but stare at it when u pick your gran up.....

[afcbadam]

Originally Posted by markyzs180

so the moral of the story is DON'T LOOK AT THE GAUGE WHEN YOU'RE RAGGING IT AROUND, but stare at it when u pick your gran up.....

or just cover it up completley and not look at it atall and just wait untill the light comes on

[mattie007]

Originally Posted by Maxxed_Ross

that's because it's a predictive needle - IE it's telling you what you will use if you keep driving like that.

Never noticed that the needle plummets if you thrash it for a period but then rises back up to almost where it was when you lift off and drive normally again?

No way! You learn summat every day!

I know this is a 180 thread, but just to rub it in, I got 460 out of my tank, 60 mph all the way. Woohoo!

Normally get 350-400.
I do find myself looking at the flipping guage alot!

[markyzs180]

wooooohooooo....just got 226 out of the last tank !!

[stamford]

Originally Posted by markyzs180

wooooohooooo....just got 226 out of the last tank !!

I take it you are fairly heavy on the right foot then!

I have averaged 320 to a tankful and that's a combination of town driving and dual carriageway (13 miles @70 ish) over a 2-2.5 hour commute each day.

[markyzs180]

Originally Posted by stamford

I take it you are fairly heavy on the right foot then!

I have averaged 320 to a tankful and that's a combination of town driving and dual carriageway (13 miles @70 ish) over a 2-2.5 hour commute each day.

most of our driving is round town (birmingham) so most of the time just sitting listening to it tickover!!
when it does get onto some open roads it ges thrashed!! hence only 220ish...but hey they're fun miles!!

ps...i have a 20 minute commute, 10 there 10 back..

[stamford]

Originally Posted by markyzs180

most of our driving is round town (birmingham) so most of the time just sitting listening to it tickover!!
when it does get onto some open roads it ges thrashed!! hence only 220ish...but hey they're fun miles!!

ps...i have a 20 minute commute, 10 there 10 back..

Ah! good old Birmingeham......................the ******** of the world!.......................my daughters boyfriend lives opposite Longbridge on the Lickey Road...................or what's left of it

[markyzs180]

[/QUOTE][QUOTE=stamford;39791 boyfriend lives opposite Longbridge on the Lickey Road...................or what's left of it [/QUOTE]

yep...not alot of it left now...don't get over that side of town much but it always saddens me to see massive chunks of it demolished when i do

[talkingcars]

On my first long run from near Gatwick to Stafford I used 23litres, on the same run in my Rover 114SLi I normally use 20 litres so I was very pleased with that.

However on the way back with my 16 year old son was encouraging me to keep the speed down (yeah, right) the econnomy wasn't so good but the time was.

[papa_lazaroo]

Originally Posted by stamford

Ah! good old Birmingeham......................the ******** of the world!.......................my daughters boyfriend lives opposite Longbridge on the Lickey Road...................or what's left of it

Thats a bit harsh towards Brum ! And I thought you're supposed to be the site Ambassador?????!!!!!

I don't agree with the predictive needle comments. I have been a fuel system designer for 18 years, and 6 of them were for Rover, the only "Sophistication" in this entire system is the signal damping. This is the system taking time to display what the float is doing so that it can surpress the gauges reaction. For example, stop quickly with half a tank, you'll hear the fuel "Slap" the front of the tank, and then it'll slush about, but if you look at your gauge, it isn't showing teh needle dancing all over the place, as the system surpresses this. The Software running your gauge then takes a snap shot reading of the float about 40 times per minute, and the signal we read on the gauge is the mean average.

It's all done by about 32 stepped resistance tiles on the float reader.

Any one still awake ???