How many K's can u get on a full tank of petrol?

well ive been using normal unleaded in my dc2 vtir for the past two three weeks.... woooooops, no one told me!

but ive been getting over 400 before my light comes on. thats with vtec occassionally and random driving, PLUS newbie manual driver who over revs a lot of the time.

put in premium last ngiht, filled up 37l, but the car seemed sluggish or something, and it was a nice cool night. maybe my launching wasnt great and so i lsot losta power in wheels spin, and so second had nothing in it. will see tongiht i guess.

eric.
ps... who's premium is better? or doesnt it matter? BP? MOBIL synergy? SHELL optimax?

iput anything in my car... :lol: :lol: :lol:

15 bux gets me half a tank. LOL

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Originally Posted by luzinit

sorry to post in an old thread :( but im new here heheh

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Used to get about 450kms with about 10 - 15 L left in tank with Optimax.

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farkkk that is excellent Q!!! in the civic, i get about 350kms, with about 7litres left, i think the tank is about 40L's??? this is mainly driving on parra road to the city n back to my home.... never really got over 400 km's, don't even recall it ever reaching over 400..... :( howcome it takes so much petrol??? i dun even vtec that much... oh yeh forgot, my car is a civic vtir..

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the civic does drink more than the teg when you rev it...you must get stuck in a bit of traffic.

I get around 450+ on Optimax, occasional VTEC travelling from nth shore to syd every day.

This is a Civic VTi-R by the way.. highway driving i get bout 600 i think.

Hard driving it chews so much petrol, but its worth it :)

I had a K&N pod, but put the stock filter back on and get at least 50km more out of the tank.. but then again probably cos i like the sound of VTEC too much with the pod! :lol:

The best I've done was 670kms from the start of the Hume Hwy (Melbourne) to Manuka in Canberra.... which left me with ~1Lt. :wink:

This included a few high speed squirts and a race with another car around Parliment House! :P

After all my 137K worth of driving - I pretty much know that when the fuel 'warning' light starts blinking on and off, I've got between 100-150 kms left. Once the light remains on, I"ve got about 60-100 kms left.... which of course, depends on how one is driving!! :shock:

okok.... so premium left me with under 400kms a tank before the light came on, 385 to be exact, with vtec occassinonally to frequently...
thats BP premium, 95 octane.
then with BP ultimate, i got 400kms of HARDLY RARELY vtecing, and with 2000 unleaded from MOBIL, i seem to be getting a lot more kms, plus with quite quite a lot of vtecing, ATM im on 405kms and the light hasnt hit yet.

i drove a dc2 vtir.... can anyone explain why i seem to be getting more milage from lesser octane fuel?

im confused! isnt it meant to be the other way around
i havent gotten around to buying a5 litre or so bottle to store petrol in, cos then i will drive with the light on, and see how far i can go with that light.

Just depends on how the fuel is mixed. It is not suprising you get more kms out of synergy compared to Ultimate.

I still prefer the Ultimate over Synergy and Optimax as I find it burns cleaner....even if I lose some kms over it.

Eric, the best way to work out your fuel consumption is like this.

Fill up all the way to the top (1-2 clicks of the pump) and then zero your trip meter. Then drive around untill you get to the petrol light or towards empty.

Then fill up again and take note of how many km's you've done and also how much fuel you filled up with.

Use this to work out how many Litres you use per 100kms and post back (if you can't do the math, then post here and i'll work it out ;) )

Any other way of checking consumption (EG waiting for your light to come on) isn't accurate.

-Win

this is very bad...

i must have the worst fuel consumption ever..

i drive a 2.2 litre accord n/a with no mods.. and i estimate doing about 14L/100km...

because i can only get 450km out of a 65 litre tank! with about 5 litres to go...

im doing a proper test right now to see whats going on, i'll get back to u guys in about a week

but when u guys are getting 500km from 40 litres... my 450kms from 65 litres is looming as a huge problem =/

maybe my car is old? its a 92 model..

btw i have to drive really carefully to get 450km aswell, if i go lead footed i only get about 400km to the tank..

more displacement equals more petrol, but 14L per 100 kms? That's a bit odd. Could also be the fact that ur car is old like u said. Components get worn and eat more petty.

i should be getting 11/100 or less
i'm testing it now properly

if i end up with 13+/100 again i'm gonna assume my o2 sensor is blown and i'm burning it rich...

might try BP ULTIMATE and see if it gets any better

okay, tested out the efficiancy for my little beast on my trip down the coast.

Old motor - 430km

New motor - 520km

This includes mixed with hwy driving and city driving (not granny city driving).