CU2 Auto, 1000km on 1 tank

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Originally Posted by alex31

Absolutely I agree with you. Thus I memtioned before using cruise control on country highway, that is flat road. In fact, I dont want to active cruise control on hill ways, bit dangerous, especially on sharp turns.

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When I am on a highway I leave cruise control on at all times, even in hilly country & I don't find it dangerous at all. You just have to understand how it works & that the transmission will kick back the required number of gears to maintain a given speed. The only exception to this would be for advisory speed signs that indicate a certain corner couldn't be negotiated at the posted speed limit. eg - a posted 60kph corner can be taken at 100kph, but a slower indicated corner you have to adjust your speed accordingly & this would be the only time I turn cruise control off.

My CU2 standard auto is new so the engine is yet to run in fully (although I realise that honda run them in in a sense at the factory). However yesterday we covered 200k of flat Bruce Highway and at 100-110kph it was chewing an average on the trip computer of 5.8l/100k....nice.

Cheers

Hi guys, Can any1 clarify something that confuses me all this time? When I drive and then I see red light, I let my CU2 "glide" with setting the gear to N and hit brake slowly. But when I'm almost full stop, the "fuel consumption" meter (the one that has bar telling you how much roughly you've spent at that time) says 15L/100kms+++ I thought having it on N should save the fuel consumption??? enlightened me please :)

i do the opposite Denot & use the paddle shift to change down & use engine braking to decrease speed. Having it in neutral & coasting does not necessarily save fuel. It also saves on brake wear.

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Originally Posted by denot

Hi guys, Can any1 clarify something that confuses me all this time? When I drive and then I see red light, I let my CU2 "glide" with setting the gear to N and hit brake slowly. But when I'm almost full stop, the "fuel consumption" meter (the one that has bar telling you how much roughly you've spent at that time) says 15L/100kms+++ I thought having it on N should save the fuel consumption??? enlightened me please :)

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Leave it in P when slowing down. Only put it in N once you are fully stopped. Putting it in N does not save you more fuel than in P when your car is moving.

Also, when you are stopped, your consumption is measured by L per distance covered. Since you are stopped, you don't cover any distance, so the consumption is high. That's why hybrids can get good economy in traffic jams but don't make a difference on the highway.

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Originally Posted by aaronng

Leave it in P when slowing down. Only put it in N once you are fully stopped. Putting it in N does not save you more fuel than in P when your car is moving.

Also, when you are stopped, your consumption is measured by L per distance covered. Since you are stopped, you don't cover any distance, so the consumption is high. That's why hybrids can get good economy in traffic jams but don't make a difference on the highway.

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I think Denot drives a manual hence the reference to shifting to N and letting the car glide so I don't think your reference to P doesn't apply to him. I was also just wondering, how do you shift into P when slowing down? I thought you can only shift to P when you've come to a complete stop? :confused:

In P????? How can i moved while in P? :O
hehhe anyway, thanx for the clarification guys
ps: i drove matic

Yeah, what's the go aarongg? LOL!
P manually locks the tranny, so I don't think you would be going anywhere soon....
Would be funny to see someone try it though!

Aaron got P and N the wrong way round.lol

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Originally Posted by aaronng

Leave it in P when slowing down. Only put it in N once you are fully stopped. Putting it in N does not save you more fuel than in P when your car is moving.

Also, when you are stopped, your consumption is measured by L per distance covered. Since you are stopped, you don't cover any distance, so the consumption is high. That's why hybrids can get good economy in traffic jams but don't make a difference on the highway.

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I think aaronng refer to "D" rather than "P".

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Originally Posted by Type R Positive

Yeah, what's the go aarongg? LOL!
P manually locks the tranny, so I don't think you would be going anywhere soon....
Would be funny to see someone try it though!

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Not really funny when it happens mate, i can assure you. It happened to my FD1 Civic Auto (while parked). A dumb female with her Dunnydore parked in front of me decided to light up her rear tyres in reverse. The poor FD1 was pushed back several feet & became the meat in a Dunnydore sandwich. Ruined a great car, but I have a better 1 now

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Originally Posted by denot

Hi guys, Can any1 clarify something that confuses me all this time? When I drive and then I see red light, I let my CU2 "glide" with setting the gear to N and hit brake slowly. But when I'm almost full stop, the "fuel consumption" meter (the one that has bar telling you how much roughly you've spent at that time) says 15L/100kms+++ I thought having it on N should save the fuel consumption??? enlightened me please :)

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Hi Denot,

When coming to a complete stop the instant fuel consumption meter will go to 15L then drop to 1L shortly afterwards.

That's how it functions on mine.