fuel milage

[driller]

Hi, I was wondering what sort of fuel consumption is expected on a Griff500? For comparison, I get about 210 miles from just full to exactly a quater full, on the run at 80mph, which seems fair enough to me. Cheers

[apache]

sounds about right

[MartinN]

I got 300 miles out of a full tank going to exeter from london and back doing a steady 80 to 90.

[apache]

thats gotta be a record!

[davidd]

I think the most I've had was about 285, the needle was off the bottom! It had 1 litre left in the tank!! The problem is the fuel guage does not track properly, ie ou drive along, it is on 1/4, then you stop and restart and it just about manages to drag it's self from zero!

[MartinN]

I was coming back to london one night and thought i would be a bit clever and try to squeeze a few more miles out of the tank which was showing a bit of fuel left. However, the guage lied and i came to a spluttering hault just by Batersea bridge and had to run a mile to the nearest petrol station, the moral of the story, never trust the petrol guage.

[manek]

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I was coming back to london one night and thought i would be a bit clever and try to squeeze a few more miles out of the tank which was showing a bit of fuel left. However, the guage lied and i came to a spluttering hault just by Batersea bridge and had to run a mile to the nearest petrol station, the moral of the story, never trust the petrol guage.

We-e-ell, I'd argue you need to get to know your petrol gauge. On my Chimaera (same gauge/sender combo as a Griff), I know it can read zero and still there's three litres in there because I can fill it up with 53-54l of fuel. But that's as close I personally would ever want to take it, otherwise I'm sure all sorts of cr*p gets sucked up into the filer or engine.

-Manek-

[angusfaldo]

It's a bit off topic, but what's the worst you've ever had?

I got 140 out of a full tank crossing Wales from Ross on Wye to Dolgellau plus a bit of extra driving.

That's about 12 mpg

[xain]

I have once got 300 out of my Chim 500. That was lots of 60/70mph on french open roads. Most pleasant!

My daily driving is so predictable that I regularly have to put in 55litres of fuel, so I'm pretty confident of how my fuel guage shows. Plus I *always* carry a can of fuel :-)

One other thing to remember is that you can very quickly fry a fuel pump if you run it dry. I don't think just running out of fuel is too bad (best to avoid for many reasons) but if you keep trying to push it on while it's sputtering, then spend ages trying to start it while the tank's empty, the chances are you've just burned out your pump.

Ask me how I know...

[EdT]

210 miles on indicated 1/4 left - part motorway part commute. Running on 95.
Ed