Re: Petrol Gauges
Originally Posted by
Bruce
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My car is not that sophisticated the next model up has all that gear but I decided I could find out the temperature outside by opening the window so I just keep a record of fuel on a spreadsheet.
These 'sophisticated' cars are OK, until they go wrong then they can be very expensive to repair.
I still haven't even worked out some of the functions and I've had the car for seven years!
Originally Posted by
Bruce
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I don't get anything like the economy that you do but it is a 3 litre turbo diesel driving a 2 tonne vehicle so about 10L/100km is not bad especially as those figures are towing a camper too.
My other car, a Scimitar GTE, has a 2.8 V6 Ford petrol engine, around town that does about 20mpg, on a journey I might get 32mpg so rather thirsty. The consolation though is performance and rarity in style as perhaps a 'one day classic'. I haven't used it for some while now though, another project to get 'sorted'!
Originally Posted by
Bruce
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BTW I used to think the "litres per 100km" was a daft measure but I must admit it is actually very useful and like it now.
I have yet to go completely metric, although on most things it does make more sense. Those figures I quoted seemed very strange. Perhaps I've been using imperial measures for too long?
Originally Posted by
Mups
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Thats what I do too, Baz. I fill up when it gets down to the halfway mark.
Better than taking chances I reckon and it's a habit that is difficult to get out of too,
even with my car being like a laptop computer on wheels!