Buy a Griff for great fuel consumption!
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Just did a 150 mile return journey in the piddling rain down to Henley-on-Thames for lunch with my girlfriend and her parents - as I wasn't in a hurry, and the weather was so poor I decided to try for minimum fuel consumption and basically went at 2k revs in fifth the whole way. By the time I got back, the needle was only slightly past the 3/4 tick point. Not bad! I guess the guage will be mega-nonlinear now and zip down to zero in 50 miles. This car is the best, fast or slow!
Oh and the windscreen wipers move and squeak in perfect synchronisation with The Scientist by Coldplay. Class!
Glad to hear that your'e so pleased with your new Griff. I too have tried the same trick and managed to get around 25 / 26 mpg on a motorway by keeping the sensible side of the speed limit. Before anyone says 'what a wuss', the car is brilliant and love it to bits but you tend to see the potential performance in a slightly different way when you have your young daughter in the car. At the eopposite end of the scale (or should that be gauge)please don't fall into the trap that I did and assume there's plenty in the tank when i fact there isn't. The gauge seems to be a optimistic and you may find that 'nearly empty' is a bit beyond that!!!!!
I've seen a wide variety on mine. I get about 25 on a sensible long run but have seen it drop to 9 on track days. That is some way of a landmark as the only other car I owned to drop under 10 was a Ferrari Daytona; but that took little effort to make it drink
Edited to add - the fuel gauge is pretty close, if it's low it's low. It seems spot on. Maybe I got lucky
>> Edited by donatien on Sunday 15th December 19:03
Edited to add - the fuel gauge is pretty close, if it's low it's low. It seems spot on. Maybe I got lucky
>> Edited by donatien on Sunday 15th December 19:03
Yeah it was around 60mph I think. Have brought the car into work today and the boss was mightily impressed - did the old "We're paying you too much" line, but he wants a spin in it (not literally), so will be happy to oblige.
Keep starting it up for people and giving it some revs. Heh heh!
Keep starting it up for people and giving it some revs. Heh heh!
becky said:The gauge seems to be a optimistic and you may find that 'nearly empty' is a bit beyond that!!!!!
This is a real pain in the ar$£. At the weekend (with about 1/2 inch of fuel in the tank) I removed the sender (5 posi's) and did a bit of judcious "tweaking" of the float arm.
I swung the float through its full range and found that empty actually means the needle is on the lower dot on the fuel gauge.
Having measured the tank depth (37cm)I bent the arm so that it could swing further round the rheostat and actually read zero on the gauge with about 1 inch of fuel (about 3/4 of a gallon) left - leaving a few miles to fill up. at the other end of the scale I had to balance this by showing full when the tank was full.
In short, the part of the arm when empty which is horizontal is now about 1/2 the length it was to achieve full, and the lower stop was bent to allow the gauge to read empty.
So far, at both full and empty it seems OK. I will see what happens in between this week !!!!
>> Edited by plipton on Monday 16th December 16:34
Keep starting it up for people and giving it some revs. Heh heh!
Unless the engine and oil is warm, this practice will knacker the engine (cams in particular) quicker than anything else....
Kepp the fuel economy going as you will need the money for a new cam.
>> Edited by shpub on Monday 16th December 18:45
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