Tank Range

[Fat Bloke]

How many miles to a full feul tank should a MCS get.
I'm only getting 169miles

[northandy]

suppose it depends on wether thats city or motorway miles, mine needs a fill up today and its showing 270 miles done on this tank and about 30 miles left on the range.... if you fill up as soon as the warning light comes on I would have got about 240 miles... how many litres do you put in when you fill it up ?

[Fat Bloke]

I'm putting about 42ltr which = giving me 169 miles = 20 mpg

169! I thought mine was bad.

I get about 220miles with about 40 left on the range using Optimax. Thats with quite a lot of city driving and a relatively heavy right foot...

[northandy]

Quote: Originally Posted by Fat Bloke

I'm putting about 42ltr which = giving me 169 miles = 20 mpg

bloody hell !.... is that all stop start motoring ?, if not you want to get back to your dealer and have them take a look at it.... I must admit I have a heavyish right boot, but my commute is fast motorway/b roads and 25 miles each way to work.... I have seen 340 from a tank on a long run....

[northandy]

p.s. i have used optimax since it was run in, I have about 8,500 miles on mine now

[midlife mini]

169!!! My car is a little modified and on a run up the Motorway at between 80-90 I get around 300 miles on a tank. Driving a mix locally it won't go below 230.

The track etc, don't ask...

[Spacer]

The day I had an S for a test-drive, I got somewhere about 180 on a tank, but that was with a complete concrete right foot. I'll let you know when I get my S, but I'm expecting 25-30 mpg.

[Wobert]

Best = 35.5 mpg......travelling back through Belgium from the Nurburgring
Worst = 24.5 mpg.......just after running in.......hahaha
Typical = 27.0 mpg.......commuting to work......and running my son around to various activities

Calculated Worst = 15 mpg......@ the 'ring

Robert

[Washy]

I am getting around 210 miles out of my JCW S before the red light comes on. That is for a 40 mile daily commute involving the M1 and MIlton Keynes and it's lovely roundabouts.

[ButtonIt]

Best 36mpg on a long motorway journey with cruise on at 80.
Worst 20mpg driving from mine to my parents (26 miles of short fast sections broken with roundabouts and traffic lights, hot footing it)
Average 25-28mpg over a few weeks of all types of driving.

MCS with 13k miles on the clock.

[Fat Bloke]

OK !
The car is book to go back to the dealer at the end of the month.

[oldandquitemad]

On the highway (70-75 MPH) I can squeeze right at 400 miles out of a tank. And these are full size US miles, too. Not those sissy Euro hector/furlong mile things.

[RickB]

I start looking for a gas station when the trip odo reads 300 miles.

[warped]

I get approx 480 km (approx 300 miles) from a single tank of Optimax 98 RON in my Works MCS ... at least half of that is highway driving but I've yet to notice a considerable difference in fuel consumption between urban and open road ... it would also be fair to say that fuel economy is generally not a consideration of mine when driving

I would think with a conservative driving style on the open road it might be possible to get close to 600 km from a tank but that would be pushing it ... personally I try to avoid running the car completely dry, you never know what is at the bottom of the tank (maybe its an urban myth but I've always been told that over time crap tends to accumulate at the bottom of the tank and therefore avoiding running to empty reduces the chance of sucking anything bad into the engine)