Surely I have a leak

[clairey]

After a night out last night i had and 85 mile journey home. Checked the range in my tank to make sure I didn't need any petrol and was fine as had 177 miles in the tank. Anyway, being as it was after midnight, and the M1 was empty, and it being a new car, i decided to "have a play" and did a few blasts of excessive speeds. About 12 miles from home i notice that the petrol gauge is on empty and looking at the range i had left it the tank gave me heart failure as it only read 8 miles with no petrol station to go past I dropped my speed down to a sensible 60mph in 6th gear and managed to limp home. Now I may be female, but surely I have a leaky petrol tank, or is that amount of "extra" consumption normal from driving hard?

[eccles]

'spirited' driving will usually increase your fuel consumption considerably.

[Plotloss]

clairey said:

After a night out last night i had and 85 mile journey home. Checked the range in my tank to make sure I didn't need any petrol and was fine as had 177 miles in the tank. Anyway, being as it was after midnight, and the M1 was empty, and it being a new car, i decided to "have a play" and did a few blasts of excessive speeds. About 12 miles from home i notice that the petrol gauge is on empty and looking at the range i had left it the tank gave me heart failure as it only read 8 miles with no petrol station to go past I dropped my speed down to a sensible 60mph in 6th gear and managed to limp home. Now I may be female, but surely I have a leaky petrol tank, or is that amount of "extra" consumption normal from driving hard?

Driving hard.

My Cooper S had shocking consumption.

Average in 4 months, just over 20mpg

[pdV6]

Most trip computers (quite sensibly) work out your range based on the average consumption over the last few (10 or so) miles. Changing from cruising to full-on accellerating will increase consumption dramatically!

>> Edited by pdV6 on Thursday 26th January 14:45

[clairey]

Oh well, at least I had fun doing it