Vehicle average MPG ?

Pudsey Bear said:
Surely there must be loads of 3/4 year old ones in the scrap yard Trev.
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Last built 1997, one here but chap wont break or let me open the diff, just sitting there doing nout, he wants to sell the van compleat for a grand, no mission.
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Soooo,
As some might know I’ve had a new Symbiotic relationship & Home in the form of ‘MO’ for the last 18month or so now. (A 4000Kg Vauxhall Movano 2017 Luton Box)
& the average figure for MPG has kinda remained constant doing short ish trips most days of between around 10/20miles OCCASIONALLY punctuated by a good unbroken long blow out trip of 70/100mile ish say once every 10Days or so.
I Normally travel on A roads to cover distance, Then wiggle & Shuffle the last bit to a chosen park up. I move at least 5 out of every 7 days all year around even in the Scottish Gales, Snow & Ice when safe to do so.
The AVE MPG has been-
Filling up is an Expensive Business ! 😳
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307miles
63.5lt
= 24.1ish MPG
At £100.79p
That’s 33p ish per mile 😳🫣
But THATS at Superdooper Shell diesel prices of almost £1.59p per litre as apposed to £1.43p per litre at Morrisons that would mean it would be around £10 cheaper at every fill up & saving around 4p per mile cheaper.

(Yeah was board for 15min 🤣🤣)
 
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I have & Do obviously get more MPG on a long run, but the above is a reflection of ‘AVE’ MPG across Multiple Road & Traffic conditions between Fill ups.
Another thing to mention is I ‘Try’ & put 4 supermarket fill ups to 1 Superdooper Shell Fill up as in my mind it’s a better thing to do 🤔.
Again although the Price per fill would change, I can’t actually say that I’ve noticed the AVE MPG has, because I’ve always done this 🤷🏻‍♂️
 
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I have a 2014 Boxer 435 van conversion but it has the more powerful 150?bhp engine and it returns 32.9mpg around town/A roads and up to 36mpg on longer motorway runs, this is the best I’ve ever had from a van, previous 2016 ducato was 30 ish and 2016 relay was similar but I don’t have to worry about adblue any longer and it pulls like a train. 😬
 
guerdeval said:
I have a 2014 Boxer 435 van conversion but it has the more powerful 150?bhp engine and it returns 32.9mpg around town/A roads and up to 36mpg on longer motorway runs, this is the best I’ve ever had from a van, previous 2016 ducato was 30 ish and 2016 relay was similar but I don’t have to worry about adblue any longer and it pulls like a train. 😬
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That’s BRILLIANT 👍😊
MO is the 2.3CDTI with this blinking Adblue stuff 🤷🏻‍♂️
 
I just find it helpful to know these mundane things while mulling over a coffee.
For example, in Addition to my £2000 fixed safety net, & for Budget purposes MO requires around the £150 PCM (Or as I do it £1800 per year) set aside in my Vehicle account for -.
Tax
Ins
Breakdown/Recovery
Windshield
MOT
1 Garage service per year
Ware & Tear consumables
(Wipers, Bulbs, Screen Wash, Oil, Brake & Steering fluids etc.
PLUS
Around £0.35p per mile for Fuel & Adblue) 🤔.

This is probably equivalent to my Coffee & Donut Budget.
 
I dont pay much attention to it but the average fuel trip meter on my 2015 Ducato 2.3, 8 metre+ 4.25t Swift Esprit is all over the place. I dont pay much attention to to it. I did a couple of brim to brim calculations last summer and I think it was about 24 mpg which considering I have a heavy right foot I thought was ok. Mainly motorway and A roads. I generally cruise around 70 on the motorway.
 
barryd said:
I dont pay much attention to it but the average fuel trip meter on my 2015 Ducato 2.3, 8 metre+ 4.25t Swift Esprit is all over the place. I dont pay much attention to to it. I did a couple of brim to brim calculations last summer and I think it was about 24 mpg which considering I have a heavy right foot I thought was ok. Mainly motorway and A roads. I generally cruise around 70 on the motorway.
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The trip meter is hopelessly optimistic, so brim-to-brim refills is the only reliable measure.

I leave my trip meter on the Instant Consumption setting and have seen how the consumption rises if you don't lift the foot when I reach cruising speed, or if I open the throttle on a climb instead of changing down a gear. Quite an eye opener!

The Owner's Manual says max torque is at 1900-2100rpm, but as the engine has loosened up, it now sits happier at around 2300-2400rpm and gives better fuel economy

Steve
 
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