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> What's the furthest "Range" shown on your Trip Computer? Mines "540 miles"
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Oct 20th, 2002, 05:15 PM
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Offline |  What's the furthest "Range" shown on your Trip Computer? Mines "540 miles" Just a bit of fun...  In my MCS I managed to maintain a "Range" of 540 miles for about 5 minutes. Can anybody beat that? |
 
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Oct 20th, 2002, 06:44 PM
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Offline | I've seen about 430 - but this soon plummets. The consumption read-out on my OBC is optimistic by about 10%. How accurate is yours waynef? MCS JCW CR/CR  ; MOD LY/B |
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Oct 21st, 2002, 03:52 AM
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Offline | Best I have gotten on the range gauge was about 512 but I did manage to do 538 miles on the tank before Filling the car up =). 02 MCS DS/W (Totaled November 02 on Fall Folage Run) 03 MCS DS/W (See my MINI Profie for extensive list of mods) |
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Oct 21st, 2002, 08:50 AM
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Offline | I saw 650 miles on mine. That was driving in a convoy with the Southern Mini Owners Club from Clacket Lane Services on the M25 to Mini In The Park near Oxford. All done at a sedate and terminally boring 40-45 mph - although we broke the speed limit by 1 mph on a downhill stretch!  There is just one moon and one golden sun; And a smile mean friendship to ev'ryone; Through the mountains divide, and the oceans are wide; It's a small world after all. |
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Oct 22nd, 2002, 07:41 AM
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Offline |  My Trip Computer/OBC has overstating the economy by 14%!!! Hi RedMini, By my calculations, my MCS Trip Computer/OBC is overstating the economy by 14%. My OBC says 36.2MPG but the trusty spreadsheet that I keep all my mileages in says 31.1MPG. ...which is frankly not very good at all. (One final point, I reset my OBC once when I picked-up the car, but for continuity I decided not to reset it since. Doing this IMO should give me a trust-worthy average. Do you agree?) Ta, |
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Oct 22nd, 2002, 11:47 AM
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Offline | Sweet side: WOW how could it possibly be over 600! Wheat side: My Nav system computer screen has never shown more than 350 range or 35 mpg. Not good!  A delicious sweet-n-wheat part of a balanced breakfast! |
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Oct 22nd, 2002, 11:56 AM
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Offline | Does anyone have a figure on what type of gas mileage they get on the S with the airconditioner on all the time? I am in Miami and need to use air most of the time and have gotten about 22 max. Is this normal? Perhaps I am still under the thrill of having a new toy and push it at times and cut into the efficiency. Who knows? Sincerely, Kevin  2002 MCS Silver w/roof rack for kayak. Girlfriend in passenger seat, and Beagle in back. |
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Oct 30th, 2002, 05:46 PM
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Offline | Waynef - I agree that you should get a better average by running the consumption calculation cumulatively rather than on each individual tank, as how far below full the tank is on any particular fill should be averaged out. I have estimated that my car was about 8 litres below full when I picked it up and adjusted for it in my spreadsheet. With satnav there are two fuel consumption readouts, so I have left one to run from new and reset the other when I refuel. According to my spreadsheet my average so far is 30.4mpg, but the OBC is consistently about 10% better than that. kkpalmer - I run the aircon the whole time, and as I said above I have averaged 30.4mpg so far, which I think equates to 24.3 US mpg. My worst is 25.0 (20.0 US) (lots of slowish short-distance), and the best 36.5 (29.2 US), but that was on a fairly gentle motorway run when the car was almost new. MCS JCW CR/CR ; MOD LY/B |
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Oct 30th, 2002, 06:10 PM
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Offline | That makes monsta, dinger and cooper_sport joint winners as they all travelled in the same mind-numbing convoy of classic Minis!  There is just one moon and one golden sun; And a smile mean friendship to ev'ryone; Through the mountains divide, and the oceans are wide; It's a small world after all. |
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Oct 31st, 2002, 07:51 PM
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Offline | Oh Sugar! How can I forget someone who is 6ft 20inches!  Sorry Andy. Couldn't remember who was there exactly. Old age and all that.....There is just one moon and one golden sun; And a smile mean friendship to ev'ryone; Through the mountains divide, and the oceans are wide; It's a small world after all. |
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Oct 31st, 2002, 08:24 PM
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Offline | ...and bald on top Cast your mind back, DC - who was the chap with the Silver/Black Cooper? It was Y reg, and one of the first 500 made? He'd (allegedly) had it chipped and had fun undertaking on the motrway. Haven't see the gent for about a year now  |
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Nov 1st, 2002, 10:29 AM
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Offline | PeteB Had problems with his leather seats. Moved up to Cheshire I believe. There is just one moon and one golden sun; And a smile mean friendship to ev'ryone; Through the mountains divide, and the oceans are wide; It's a small world after all. |
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