Speaking of the cams... apparently my cams and followers are worn...
I don't think it's had any major real service since it left the factory, so Im not sure how the thing is going to be out of adjustment (I say adjustment in the liberal sense).
Would this cause a fuel economy problem?
I hope it's the exhaust though. The heatshields on mine rattle and reverberate something wrotten. But there's nothing wrong with it apparently.
Ta Simon
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Knowing BMW's teutonic machinations it probably has a solenoid valve that shuts off the fuel when it reads zero. "Ve haff told you there is no more fuel. Zer is no more fuel."
Of course. How else could it work?
With a low tank it's fun to watch it *climb* as the engine warms up and reduces its fuel consumption.
Somene syphoning your fuel in the night?
Tim
Ah - you didn't give any of that sort of useful information. You could have just got the car, and your previous one was a manual Micra. ;-)
It's difficult to find conditions which closely relate to the way the official figures are calculated. Deliberately so, IMHO.
All the french cars I've had have had very linear accurate gauges. It's about the only thing they do right :-) My Rover 214 however, it stays at full for nearly 100 miles then wanders around due to hills or braking and acceleration.
Do a compression test. My Rover 214 was down to 22mpg and running like a dog. Turns out it had a cracked valve. Strong smell of petrol especially when just started.
"gazzafield" wrote in message news: snipped-for-privacy@pipex.net...
I get around 60 mpg from my Escort when the tank is full, and closer to 50 when it is only a 1/4 full.
-- Billy H
I had a metro wth a dodgy gauge once,. I was calculating how much fuel I
*estimated* I was using and when I was nearly empty I took it to the filling station.Leaning against the car and thinking, 'well 20 quid? keep me going for a while' I let my eyes wander, it'd take at least a minute.
at around a fiver the fuel was overflowing. Come to think of it I can't remember why it never clicked off. Strnage, maybe I ignored it and started again.
-- Billy H
Well it could be based on an overall average fuel consumption, which with my car seems to be pretty stable at around 24 mpg, at an average speed of 26.6 mph. And there was me thinking I was a relatively fast driver.:-)
Fun maybe, but apart from telling you when you need to think about filling up, I can't see how it can be described as accurate.
I don't think it's possible to predict a true 'running out figure' as it that figure would depend upon how you drove the car. It might be accurate at any given instant, but how do you even know that?
Maybe one of us should put a gallon of fuel in the boot. Drive until the car runs out of fuel to see if the OBC reads zero miles left at the same time. :-) Mike.
Got to be a Diesel surely?! My son gets 32mpg around town, 37 mixed, 43 motorway only.
Slightly OT, but top gear driving to Edinburgh from London, and back, on one tank of fuel in an Audi (A6?) - sounded a bit far-fetched. The engine struggles with 25 miles to go, and yet all is fine at the end. Bull, definitely filled up on the way!
Bloody clarkson and his handsome unguilty face.
15.4 gallon tank and about another 1/2 gallon in the swirl pot, filter and fuel line. 800 mile round trip - 52MPG. Certainly not impossible if you drive properly. I can get 17MPG out of my Artic when it's empty even though it's an 11 litre diesel and weighs 15 tonnes unloaded. Trick is to do all the economical driving techniques such as coasting up to traffic lights/roundabouts and timing it so you don't come to a stop at them. Also lifting off the throttle as you hit the 100m marker for a motorway exit and coasting to the end of the sliproad.
For example, if I time it right approaching Howden on the A614, I can lift off the throttle and the engine braking will slow me down, hitting
30 as I pass the 30 limit sign, coasting to the roundabout - about 1/2 mile using no fuel whatsover.Conor wrote: [regarding an artic]
JOOI, how much engine braking do you get compared to a car? Do you notice any engine braking with a fully loaded vehicle?
Andrew
yeah, diesel. and old too. L reg'd.
I only now this after watching the needle and filling up a few times. Doesn't have an OBC, has more hands on and let's DIY gadgetry inside, still a pain in the ass to decide what's wrong with at times.
Proably time I scrapped it, but it seems to have a long life in it yet, when it does run...
-- Billy H
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That'd be a petrol A6? My sadly defunct diesel would do it. 85 litre tank helped, of course.
It's got a switch on the dash that gives me two stages and comes on when I lift off the throttle pedal. The maximum setting will slow you down as if you've pressed the brake pedal with reasonable force when you're empty. On hills on motorways such as M1 J28, M1 J22-23, M62 Windy Hill, it'll hold the speed at ~40 tonnes. Basically, the higher the engine speed, the more brake effect you get so the idea is to drop it down a couple of gears so it is just below the redline for the best effect.
For you, Tommy, ze journey is over.
Si
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I used to use that as a way to get trainee instructors to look further ahead than they were used to and to outguess the other drivers on the road. Driving round Watford for half an hour without being allowed to come to a halt (except at STOP lines, of course) was fun. Even more fun was doing it without being allowed to use the brakes.
So you already did that? Or the tank was empty, you put 12.61 litres in and got exactly 50 miles?
If you know more than you say, then you'll get people telling you what you already know...
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