£40 quid full tank and i get 330 miles ? 1.2 ibiza

[Dillan G]

Hi people just wanted to see how many miles i could get on my seat ibiza 1.2,
A full tank cost me 40 pounds and ding mototrway driving as well as city driving and i have done 330 miles and the red light is on is that good ?

How many miles do you think i can get when the red light shows, as it always comes on at a 1/4 of a tank :s

Thanx

 

[stezo2k]

yeah 330 miles is pretty decent for the 1.2, i used to average 300 but now i average 350 since servicing. i have seen somebody get 400 out of the 1.2, not sure how though

 

[Nath_123ni]

Hi people just wanted to see how many miles i could get on my seat ibiza 1.2,
A full tank cost me 40 pounds and ding mototrway driving as well as city driving and i have done 330 miles and the red light is on is that good ?

How many miles do you think i can get when the red light shows, as it always comes on at a 1/4 of a tank :s

Thanx

I put £20 in my 1.2 and id get about 110 miles before light comes on

 

[Alex 17]

I get about 550 out of a 54 poud tank of fuel in the leon , not sure how good that is but im not light footed

 

[Dillan G]

Yeah i think when i service mine i can get more miles mabey .. but im happy with that

Alex17 your leon is so nice .. please dont tell me thats your first car ... if it is its very nice i want one of them next

 

[andycupra]

why not talk in litres rather than money then we can have a more realistic view of what you are using / mpg..

lets assume you are paying 106.9 per litre..
thats 37.418 litres
and 8.232 gallons.

so 330 miles for £40 of fuel gives you 40.09 mpg. which is pretty good. not fantastic, you could certainly get more, but we dont really know what sort of driving you do, town driving kills mpg.

 

[Armitageshanks]

yep lets talk in litres! i always put 40 litres of deisel in my pd100 and run it 10 miles or so in the red zone and get around 370-380 miles of london stop/ start driving. I put an uncomfortable 36 psi in my low profile tyres to milk the economy as much as possible tho.

 

[s1l3nc3r]

I had a 1.2 before and got around the 300 mark on a tank so sounds about right..

 

[CUPRACAR]

If I realy try hard I can get my LCR down to 8 mpg I love it

 

[tooly1]

id be pretty happy with any where between 300- 350 mpg these cars seem more appealing and £40 to fill the tank cant be moaned at ! and alex 17's leon is actually stunning!

 

[MadFaz]

id be pretty happy with any where between 300- 350 mpg these cars seem more appealing and £40 to fill the tank cant be moaned at ! and alex 17's leon is actually stunning!

i think a lot of people would be happy with 300 MPG

 

[kidinspace]

I usually get about the 400 mark to a tank with my 1.2, filled up today and it wasn't even empty and I'd done 412... I usually run for about a day after the light and the BEEEEP comes on...

Click my sig for the numbers...

.G.

 

[Breezapom]

im lucky if i get 250 miles out of a tank knew i should of kept my 1.4

 

[rocky2008]

why not talk in litres rather than money then we can have a more realistic view of what you are using / mpg..

lets assume you are paying 106.9 per litre..
thats 37.418 litres
and 8.232 gallons.

so 330 miles for £40 of fuel gives you 40.09 mpg. which is pretty good. not fantastic, you could certainly get more, but we dont really know what sort of driving you do, town driving kills mpg.

from reading that i assume you know a formula for working out how many MPG your car gets, i want to work out how many miles per gallon i am getting but dont know a forumula, could you tell me it please cheers.

 

[andycupra]

from reading that i assume you know a formula for working out how many MPG your car gets, i want to work out how many miles per gallon i am getting but dont know a forumula, could you tell me it please cheers.

no problem.

This is what you do.
Firstly you need to fill the tank and reset the trip to record miles covered while you use this tankful.
Then simply use the car until you need to fill the tank again. Fill it up to the same point as before, (ie full).
Note the litres used to fill the tank and miles covered.

Then you can work out the mpg.

Many people use 4.5 litres = 1 gallon. But i use 5 litres = 1.1 gallons as this is slightly more accurate and im my head its easier to work out the gallons.

lets use an example of 300 miles covered and 40 litres used:

Take the number of litres used to fill the tank, divide it by 5 and multiply by 1.1 to convert litres into gallons.
Eg 40 divided by 5 is 8. Multiplied by 1.1 is 8.8 gallons.

Then simply take the miles covered and divide by the number of gallons.
Eg 300 miles covered, divided by 8.8 gallons is 34.1 mpg. (to 1dp)

or in short:
(40/5)*1.1=8.8
300/8.8 = 34.091 (or 34.1)


the alternative is:
40/4.5= 8.889
300/8.889 = 33.750 you can see this gives a slightly different amount as the litres to gallon conversion is not as accurate. (but shorter).

 

[rocky2008]

no problem.

This is what you do.
Firstly you need to fill the tank and reset the trip to record miles covered.
Then simply use the car until you fill the tank. Note the litres used to fill the tank and miles covered.

Then you can work out the mpg.

many people use 4.5 litres = 1 gallon. But i use 5 litres = 1.1 gallons as this is slightly more accurate.

lets use an example of 300 miles covered and 40 litres used:

Take the number of litres used to fill the tank, divide it by 5 and multiply by 1.1 to convert litres into gallons.
Eg 40 divided by 5 is 8. Multiplied by 1.1 is 8.8 gallons.

Then simply take the miles covered and divide by the number of gallons.
Eg 300 miles covered, divided by 8.8 gallons is 34.1 mpg. (to 1dp)

or in short:
(40/8)*1.1=8.8
300/8.8 = 34.0909091 (or 34.1)

spot on mate! thanks alot, im not the best at maths but you explained that superbly!

 

[Alex 17]

My 1.2 managed about 350 on a tank ,
And thanks for the kind comments , Nope the leon was not my first car had a mk4 seat ibiza first , Click the link in my signature for my readers ride thread

 

[Bigjohn84]

I've just filled my tank up in my Cupra 1.8 20VT and my digital gauge says 330miles how is that?

 

[britishsligean]

My 1.2 52 gets me roughly over 100 miles on 1/4 of a tank so I get about 300 miles before the light comes on, but I feel the tank sensor is off as it comes on when I hit 1/4 tank

 

[DavieTDI]

I put 1p into my tank and drove to Jupiter and back. I just love some of the figures that get claimed on here.