2011 D4 XS - OBD port protection, RLD spare wheel protector, All LED interiors lights, Timed Climate enabled, iiD tool paired.
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29th Sep 2020 11:18 am
RRSTDV8
Member Since: 07 Apr 2014
Location: Here
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Was it rolling down hill with a tail wind and the engine switched off? If not, it's obviously one of those LR errors that get thrown up now and then. Visiting from rrsport.co.uk
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29th Sep 2020 11:25 am
al cope
Member Since: 08 Nov 2005
Location: Oldbury, WM
Posts: 10354
If you can get that when its not moving, think about what you could get when actually going somewhere
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Now gone - MY16 D4 SE Tech, Loire Blue, Almond Leather, Privacy, plus some other goodies.
Old - MY12 D4 SDV6 XS Auto - Ipanema Sand with Almond Leather - Plus other niceties, and D4.com sticker
Older - D3 TDV6 XS Auto - Lugano Teal with Almond Leather, 20" Stormers, Shiny Tailpipes, DVD/TV - and obligatory D3 sticker
Ancient - D3 TDV6 S - Tonga with Ebony, 20" Stormers, satnav & DVD
Using that quaint old fashioned notion measuring distance travel and volume of fuel required to refill to brim, an alternative view is 37 mpg.
Still much better than the 21-ish the lie-ometer normally shows.
Let's see what the next few days give me.
Speedo will be set to km/h for next 3..
Dean
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2011 D4 XS - OBD port protection, RLD spare wheel protector, All LED interiors lights, Timed Climate enabled, iiD tool paired.
2011 D4 Landmark - Stolen from same dealer before I paid for it
2011 D4 GS - Stolen whilst at dealer ... All LED interiors lights, DRLs, Spare Wheel protector.
1996 300Tdi - Eaten by tin worms
29th Sep 2020 3:42 pm
ariddiver
Member Since: 01 Oct 2020
Location: Newcastle
Posts: 3
ok ... just got round to working out the, ahem, economy for the trip to Nantes and back.
Tuesday
brimmed tank at ASDA Trafford Park
Set Cruise Control to 62mph as no rush
278 miles to Ashford, Kent
brimmed tank at Sainsbury's
used 34.5 litres
= 36.6 mpg
Wednesday
Eurotunnel then 380 miles to Nantes
Cruise at 128 wherever possible - didn't fancy getting there too late.
Car saying remaining range = 66km
Brimmed tank, took 68.72 litres
= 25.2 mpg for French part of outward leg
= 29.0 mpg for whole outward leg.
We were meant to come back Friday but delayed so came back Saturday.
Rang other branches of some potential stopover hotels but some wouldn't let us stay as we'd been to France .... so we'd know NOT to mention it if we'd HAD to stop. Decided not worth the grief so went for stopping for an hour's kip here and there.
Nantes to Eurotunnel to Sainsbury's Ashford
set cruise @ 100kmh (so same as UK outward bit) as not in any rush
car saying 278km range left
brimmed tank, took 50.42 litres !!!
=34.2 mpg
Back to Manchester = 270 miles (ASDA Hulme was showing open for Fuel @ 4am)
Brimmed tank = 40 litres
= 30.68 mpg
whole trip = 1308 miles using 193.7 litres = 30.7 mpg
So ... for the French end of the trip, that extra 30km/h on the outward part meant using an extra 18 litres compared to the more leisurely return leg.
Think I'll try and do it over three days for outward trip when we next go. I never saw signs in the French services but am assuming they don't have "max 2 hours parking" like in the UK ?.
Dean
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2011 D4 XS - OBD port protection, RLD spare wheel protector, All LED interiors lights, Timed Climate enabled, iiD tool paired.
2011 D4 Landmark - Stolen from same dealer before I paid for it
2011 D4 GS - Stolen whilst at dealer ... All LED interiors lights, DRLs, Spare Wheel protector.
1996 300Tdi - Eaten by tin worms
11th Oct 2020 1:35 pm
robsmith
Member Since: 02 Sep 2007
Location: Staffordshire
Posts: 2401
Most mainland Europe services aren't run by the money grabbing thugs that prowl around those in the UK and allow one plenty of time to rest and recover.
(I picked up a ticket in one UK services due to collecting a face of soap from the thing in the loos that broke resulting in an overnight stay in the local A&E. Ticket was cancelled eventually, but it took months of hard chasing.)Rob Smith
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