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#1 2019-07-20 16:07:22

Zippypilot
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Economy - How many miles per tank do you get?

Thought this would be a bit of fun, brimmed my 2002 2.0HDi from fuel light on and managed to get a couple of miles under 700 out of it until the light came back on (yeah it did cost £95 to fill up,was £1.30 a litre at the time, but kinda chuffed with the result) 13p a mile can't be bad?

Anyone better this is or do these vans run on magic?

PS no effort to save the right foot included in this test

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#2 2019-07-20 17:20:12

Casper
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Re: Economy - How many miles per tank do you get?

Think that works out at 43MPG what is not bad. I only get around 35 in my 1.9D but of late as it never gets over 50mph much its been great on fuel. Must brim it to work out true MPG soon.

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#3 2019-07-21 07:28:40

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Re: Economy - How many miles per tank do you get?

Highest I ever got in I got my DW8 was 45MPG - that's all motorway at 50mph. My run around Europe last year with no economy effort returned me about 37MPG.

My new 1.9TD got me 48MPG on a similar run down from Scotland the other week, although that's on veg oil for what difference that might make.

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2000 Citroen Dispatch 1.9TD XUD9 Camper Conversion
1999 Citroen Dispatch 1.9D DW8 Disassembled Camper Conversion
1996 Peugeot 806 1.9TD XUD9 Spare vehicle
1998 Citroen Synergie 1.9TD XUD9 Snapped timing belt

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#4 2019-07-21 11:36:15

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Re: Economy - How many miles per tank do you get?

Casper wrote:

Think that works out at 43MPG what is not bad. I only get around 35 in my 1.9D but of late as it never gets over 50mph much its been great on fuel. Must brim it to work out true MPG soon.

Be interesting to see how it does, 43mpg, I can live with that!

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#5 2019-07-21 11:38:00

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Re: Economy - How many miles per tank do you get?

kenbw2 wrote:

Highest I ever got in I got my DW8 was 45MPG - that's all motorway at 50mph. My run around Europe last year with no economy effort returned me about 37MPG.

My new 1.9TD got me 48MPG on a similar run down from Scotland the other week, although that's on veg oil for what difference that might make.

48mpg! Wow that is  running on magic!

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#6 2019-07-21 15:58:03

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Re: Economy - How many miles per tank do you get?

Zippypilot wrote:
kenbw2 wrote:

Highest I ever got in I got my DW8 was 45MPG - that's all motorway at 50mph. My run around Europe last year with no economy effort returned me about 37MPG.

My new 1.9TD got me 48MPG on a similar run down from Scotland the other week, although that's on veg oil for what difference that might make.

48mpg! Wow that is  running on magic!

That was very very light footed at 50mph on the motorway


2000 Citroen Dispatch 1.9TD XUD9 Camper Conversion
1999 Citroen Dispatch 1.9D DW8 Disassembled Camper Conversion
1996 Peugeot 806 1.9TD XUD9 Spare vehicle
1998 Citroen Synergie 1.9TD XUD9 Snapped timing belt

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#7 2019-07-22 07:37:35

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Re: Economy - How many miles per tank do you get?

I get about 700 too, just had a trip to Snowdonia then down to Brecon and finishing Swansea before back to Pasty land,  £100 full tank and was close to 700 before light came on,  mega happy with that

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#8 2019-07-22 21:16:34

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Re: Economy - How many miles per tank do you get?

Thepoolman wrote:

I get about 700 too, just had a trip to Snowdonia then down to Brecon and finishing Swansea before back to Pasty land,  £100 full tank and was close to 700 before light came on,  mega happy with that


It seems these vans are great for economy, 700 on £100 is none too shabby in my book, glad to see your reply,

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#9 2019-07-22 21:17:48

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Re: Economy - How many miles per tank do you get?

Yea it's why my answer to "don't you want a bigger van?" I'm like "no I quite like my mpg"

Even cheaper when veg is 70p/litre

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2000 Citroen Dispatch 1.9TD XUD9 Camper Conversion
1999 Citroen Dispatch 1.9D DW8 Disassembled Camper Conversion
1996 Peugeot 806 1.9TD XUD9 Spare vehicle
1998 Citroen Synergie 1.9TD XUD9 Snapped timing belt

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#10 2019-07-22 23:33:22

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Re: Economy - How many miles per tank do you get?

I like to see around 700 too.  Can be more with careful cruising and no mountain climbing though.

Ken... I noticed your mention of 50mph on motorways for economy.  You would think so, but I have read in a few places that cruising at 55- 60 mph is optimum for "most" engines.  So perhaps you can go a little faster and save a few more pennies?

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#11 2019-07-23 06:59:00

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Re: Economy - How many miles per tank do you get?

I usually get 45mpg on a run up to Scotland, I dont go above 65mph on the motorway.


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#12 2019-07-25 17:45:37

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Re: Economy - How many miles per tank do you get?

Driving pretty carefully and avoiding Paris I got 39mpg. I was pretty chuffed with that considering I live in the the thing with all my things and tools. I don't go faster than 90kmh and always change gear pretty early.

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#13 2019-07-25 20:07:45

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Re: Economy - How many miles per tank do you get?

OAT wrote:

I like to see around 700 too.  Can be more with careful cruising and no mountain climbing though.

Ken... I noticed your mention of 50mph on motorways for economy.  You would think so, but I have read in a few places that cruising at 55- 60 mph is optimum for "most" engines.  So perhaps you can go a little faster and save a few more pennies?


You make a valid point about cruising speed..... I just had 4..5 nights away and averaged just a smidgen over 37mpg............ yet last time we went to Spain From Dunkirk back to Dunkirk we did 3,769 mls and averaged 40.36MPG...............(just double checked)


37MPG I would guess is an achevable normish for a DW8 (out of town) however I was feeling the engine was labouring on more than one occaion on some of the hilly parts we were Dawdling about on
(I'm sure some of the natives were pleased)..........

Where as the Spanish trip was more consistant 60mphish and as pointed out here somewhere weight does play a factor.........

A bigger role than we may initially appreciate

(I was surprised how much weight my "empty campervan" was lugging about)




(I took the opertunity to brim off in Fort William .......3/4 tank showing but true to form took 34 somthing ltrs on 286.    somthing Mls)

On return trip home I was running a little faster and noticed I'd covered 160 mls almost before gauge started to move.......... I should if I could be Bothered is to go brim it off again

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#14 2019-07-25 23:46:09

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Re: Economy - How many miles per tank do you get?

vaz2121 wrote:

achevable normish for a DW8 (out of town) however I was feeling the engine was labouring on more than one occaion

DW8 labouring - were you trying to go more than 55mph?   big_smile


2000 Citroen Dispatch 1.9TD XUD9 Camper Conversion
1999 Citroen Dispatch 1.9D DW8 Disassembled Camper Conversion
1996 Peugeot 806 1.9TD XUD9 Spare vehicle
1998 Citroen Synergie 1.9TD XUD9 Snapped timing belt

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#15 2019-07-26 08:23:05

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Re: Economy - How many miles per tank do you get?

I've just done a trip give from Spain and calculated mpg by brimming as accurately as I can. I tried on the way down but something on the dash slightly pressed the trip reset button and sent it to random numbers. I did work it out roughly and it was 35 or 37mpg ish. Most of it was motorways doing 80/85mph.

This was on the way home

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First one (top right) was Spain (just south of Barcelona) over the Pyrenees and half way up France to just south of orléans, 90% avoiding tolls so a lot of it doing 60ish and going through the odd towns.

2nd, we were running a bit behind so toll roads came into play, so most of it sat at 80/85.

3rd was Dover to bacup, and back on veg (50/50) I'd you want to factor that in.

It could be argued I'm cheating because by car is a synergie therefore slightly better aerodynamics than a van, but it was loaded up with people stuff, including a Towbar mounted luggage rack so that balances it out I suppose

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It's an 1.9td xud. Normally I generally get around 34mpg average day to day on 100% veg


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#16 2019-07-26 20:41:07

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Re: Economy - How many miles per tank do you get?

My 700 was first week July when I went up to Bala lake couple days then headed to Brecon then Swansea then back home, nice mix of ups and downs and a steady motorway drive,  first Sunday in August just doing a day trip to Haines motor museum for their breakfast club, round 300 mile trip.

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#17 2019-07-28 14:24:57

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Re: Economy - How many miles per tank do you get?

Hey great fun seeing all the posts, thanks all for posting smile

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#18 2019-07-29 02:01:45

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Re: Economy - How many miles per tank do you get?

Thought I'd add this here, although it's from another post on a different subject, It is quite relevant here too.

It looks like mine is getting round 37.8mpg, in fairness that does include a 650 mile round trip on this tank of fuel but I've not gone out of my way to be economical in my driving habits. As with all my vehicles, both 2 wheeled and four wheeled, when I got my scudo I replaced fuel, oil and air filters and I use a friction reducer such as slick 50 with my semi synthetic 10/40 engine oil.


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#19 2019-07-29 14:09:55

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Re: Economy - How many miles per tank do you get?

Think I was getting low 40s till it blew up last week, funnily enough had just brimmed so I could do the same.

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#20 2019-07-31 20:16:23

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Re: Economy - How many miles per tank do you get?

k_wyndham_t wrote:

Think I was getting low 40s till it blew up last week, funnily enough had just brimmed so I could do the same.

Oh no! Sorry to hear that, I had a Frontera blow up on me, great noise but really annoying wallet wise

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#21 2019-07-31 20:18:37

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Re: Economy - How many miles per tank do you get?

Oh, payload was light, as furniture, although can be heavy, takes up more space than load so I guess the 700 is due to this rather than carrying lead

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#22 2019-11-22 01:28:18

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Re: Economy - How many miles per tank do you get?

Once again I've added this from another post, although this time it's in my Dispatch since bits of my my Scudo crank came out through the sump, causing it to self destruct. Handy to have the Scudo for spare parts though, just saved myself a hundred quid on a set of gear cables, luckily the same DW8B engine.

Hi all,
Just got back from a trip to London and back, I had a full tank of 50/50 veg and diesel and ran it for 200 miles round the doors before I left Durham. When I got home, I had 711 miles on the odometer and refilled the tank again to find out how much I had used. It worked out at 39 MPG which I was quite happy with, as the first 200 miles was just normal driving and the trip down the country wasn't done very economically as the M1 on a Friday evening had lots of stop/start traffic and where I could, I was doing a constant 70+ MPH. On the return Journey however I kept speed down to 60-65 MPH. If I had driven more carefully for the whole tank of fuel, I could have returned over 40 MPG.

I really must try to do a full tank with completely economic driving to see what I can really get out of it but it'll have to include lots of motorway driving for best results.

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#23 2019-11-22 16:51:26

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Re: Economy - How many miles per tank do you get?

I realize smaller, lighter and geared differently also in this case fitted with (Factory) Bosch pump rather than the vans Lucus/Delphi............

Our 306 on last trip in it to the Med (Costa Brava) we just so happened to go Via the old Grand Prix street circuit/buildings at Reims ............
It just meant that so much was on National route (A roads) our speed was usually 50-55 mph and 60-65mph on dual carriageway..........

I was in something of disbelief (what with holiday sh** etc) when fuelling up just outside of Clermont-Ferrand we had returnd 57MPG...................

The pug's fitted with a DW8  and at the time had about 178,000mls on her .............

We'd fueled up in Adinkerke, Belgium (Fags etc inc) covered about IIRC 500mls and put in about 39 ltrs .....
I Remember having way over a quarter tank still showing before hand and at that rate would have managed 700 miles to the tank............

But from there on the (A75) Motorway (hilly) a Momentous storm {South}  and all the way back we'd  returned to the usual 49 ..50 mpg  .............

Even to this day (and on retirement duties) with over 211,000 it still manages about 600 miles to a tank....
I'm Happy with that .... Very............
(This is where Van kicks in not having to find accommodation or incur cost on route and convenience of stopping when tired or a cuppa)

Although to be fair on the first trip we took 306 to Spain  to visit Her father. (Atlantic coast then med..... 4,500 miles in just shy of 4 weeks).........
It did so much better than the fuel budget prediction.. We were able to have an extra W/end of accommodation and still buy Some extra Sh** at Adinkerke on way home
{In one 12 month period we did 3 Spanish trips [Costa Brava] with it }

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#24 2019-11-24 16:16:31

Zippypilot
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Re: Economy - How many miles per tank do you get?

vaz2121 wrote:

I realize smaller, lighter and geared differently also in this case fitted with (Factory) Bosch pump rather than the vans Lucus/Delphi............

Our 306 on last trip in it to the Med (Costa Brava) we just so happened to go Via the old Grand Prix street circuit/buildings at Reims ............
It just meant that so much was on National route (A roads) our speed was usually 50-55 mph and 60-65mph on dual carriageway..........

I was in something of disbelief (what with holiday sh** etc) when fuelling up just outside of Clermont-Ferrand we had returnd 57MPG...................

The pug's fitted with a DW8  and at the time had about 178,000mls on her .............

We'd fueled up in Adinkerke, Belgium (Fags etc inc) covered about IIRC 500mls and put in about 39 ltrs .....
I Remember having way over a quarter tank still showing before hand and at that rate would have managed 700 miles to the tank............

But from there on the (A75) Motorway (hilly) a Momentous storm {South}  and all the way back we'd  returned to the usual 49 ..50 mpg  .............

Even to this day (and on retirement duties) with over 211,000 it still manages about 600 miles to a tank....
I'm Happy with that .... Very............
(This is where Van kicks in not having to find accommodation or incur cost on route and convenience of stopping when tired or a cuppa)

Although to be fair on the first trip we took 306 to Spain  to visit Her father. (Atlantic coast then med..... 4,500 miles in just shy of 4 weeks).........
It did so much better than the fuel budget prediction.. We were able to have an extra W/end of accommodation and still buy Some extra Sh** at Adinkerke on way home
{In one 12 month period we did 3 Spanish trips [Costa Brava] with it }

Wow, 57 mpg? I am due to travel to Spain early next year to take tools/furniture etc to renovate my girlfriends parents flat in Torremollinos as they are too unwell to use it any more. I was thinking about the mpg versus the cost of freight. The ideal would be to have the van there to do the dump runs of the sh*t tiles and 70's carpet etc, and to collect from the nearby diy stores for materials. I guess it will be around £180 in fuel to get there with the weight on the van and same back, which is far cheaper compared to freight and the hire of a van down there.

Is there any requirements to drive through France/Spain that I should do before leaving?

Zip

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#25 2019-11-24 17:42:09

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Re: Economy - How many miles per tank do you get?

If we leave without a deal, you will need a international driving permit - 1968 for France and 1949 for Spain.
Notes for the drive south

Take A16/E402 south towards Boulogne to Abbeville - toll. Then Join A28 to Rouen - free. Then pick up N154 to Chartres and on to Orleans. Pick up N20 to Vierzon, then N76 to Bourges and Moulins, then N9 to Clermont Ferrand. Pick up free A75 to J63 Beziers - you need to pay for the Millau viaduct which is  worth it. Follow green signs for Narbonne then Perpignan. You can then pick up A9/E15 toll to Spain and come off at the N2 junction

Rouen is a pain to get round - just follow the signs for A13 Paris.

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