172 / 182 For Commute - MPG Question

[L888DER]

Honest MPG's please. also if buying a 3/4 year old one what should i be looking out for?

just want something nippy and unasuming. Thanks will daily use with maybe 35/40K miles on the clock an issue?

[Funk]

A mate of mine gets mid-thirties out of his 172. He doesn't drive it particularly to be economical.

[-J-]

I use my 172 cup everyday to and from work.

Around town I normall get around the 30mpg, On a run back from Oxfor to North London last week i saw 47mpg

[John D.]

L888DER said:

Honest MPG's please. also if buying a 3/4 year old one what should i be looking out for?

just want something nippy and unasuming. Thanks will daily use with maybe 35/40K miles on the clock an issue?

I get low to mid thirties day to day (I don't pay too much attention tbh as I do very little miles commuting). FWIW I got 18mpg thrashing it on track yesterday, and hooning all day in Wales the computer said 27 mpg

Mine is 52 plate on 58k (bought on 31k, June '06) and has been fine for me day to day apart from a few issues - Do a search for known problems. I know I've posted on the subject more than once on here in the past

Try cliosport.net for all the info you could ever need too.

[warren182]

I've had 5 different 172/182's. The 172's returned 34.5-35 mpg, the 182's 31-32 on the same journey's. Thats calculated, not just using the trip computer.

[bones33]

I drive my S2 172 to work everyday which is a total of about 30-40 miles. Depending on how I drive if I dont boot it and keep revs to below 3-4k I get 38 average on the trip so I would say this is more like 35 calculated.

They are a good fast dailey just be warned if you boot it and you will the fuel goes down quick.

[Yugguy]

I had a 172 for 18 months, the biggest factor I found in the mpg was wether or not you revved it past the valve timing change, if you kept it under 4k (iirc) it would return mid 30s.

That said it's not easy to do that, the kick in the back and the scream to the redline is very addictive.

[AliV6]

172's will do 30+ all day long, 40 if your nice to it on the motorway. The Vee does about 18!

[warren182]

Yugguy said:

I had a 172 for 18 months, the biggest factor I found in the mpg was wether or not you revved it past the valve timing change, if you kept it under 4k (iirc) it would return mid 30s.

That said it's not easy to do that, the kick in the back and the scream to the redline is very addictive.

VVT starts at 1450rpm, doubt you'll be able to keep it under that!

[John D.]

warren182 said:

Yugguy said:

I had a 172 for 18 months, the biggest factor I found in the mpg was wether or not you revved it past the valve timing change, if you kept it under 4k (iirc) it would return mid 30s.

That said it's not easy to do that, the kick in the back and the scream to the redline is very addictive.

VVT starts at 1450rpm, doubt you'll be able to keep it under that!

Might be a problem!

He's right about keeping it below 4k for economy though. Equates to 80mph on motorway IIRC.

[172ff]

This week I've averaged 38.6 mpg to work. Helped by the schools being off. Normal stop start traffic over 15 miles, 9 being M way is usually spot on 35.0

[rev-erend]

My 185 gets 35 mpg around town .. plenty of slow driving to / from the station , stop start journeys and gets 40 or close to on longer runs.

At the weekends - it can give TVR's a run for their money .. but cannot tell you the MPG then but it's better than the TVR's get