General 2.0 Multijet - Thirsty???

[petes.active1.2]

Hello all 2.0 Multijet owners - I collected my 2.0 M-Jet Sport 3 weeks ago - I love the car!! Its an 09 Plate with 17,200 Miles in Maranello Red with the two tone 17'' Wheels (will post some pics up when I have cleaned her!!)
I have come from a 1.2 GP active and the performance is amazing in comparison.
Before my GP I had a Bravo T-Jet 150 Active which I had to sell due to financial commitments and I averaged 36/37 MPG in the 18 months of running it.

One thing that is a little disapointing with my new motor is the fuel economy. I do a round trip of 22 miles a day 5 days a week (mix of A roads / country lanes - Macclesfield to Stockport) and I average around 40-41 MPG according to the average setting on the trip. It seems to do a DPF regen every 100-120 miles or so and I guess that this wont help (Instant drops rapidly during this process)
I don't rag her - I change up at 2.5k-3k

What are all you other 2.0 M-Jet owners getting???? Any help appreciated.

 

[dentricrio]

I'm getting 42 MPG - I only drive on country roads going up massive hills, however when I do motorway journeys I get around 53MPG.

 

[craig20102010]

Hello all 2.0 Multijet owners - I collected my 2.0 M-Jet Sport 3 weeks ago - I love the car!! Its an 09 Plate with 17,200 Miles in Maranello Red with the two tone 17'' Wheels (will post some pics up when I have cleaned her!!)
I have come from a 1.2 GP active and the performance is amazing in comparison.
Before my GP I had a Bravo T-Jet 150 Active which I had to sell due to financial commitments and I averaged 36/37 MPG in the 18 months of running it.

One thing that is a little disapointing with my new motor is the fuel economy. I do a round trip of 22 miles a day 5 days a week (mix of A roads / country lanes - Macclesfield to Stockport) and I average around 40-41 MPG according to the average setting on the trip. It seems to do a DPF regen every 100-120 miles or so and I guess that this wont help (Instant drops rapidly during this process)
I don't rag her - I change up at 2.5k-3k

What are all you other 2.0 M-Jet owners getting???? Any help appreciated.

very thirsty car round town i think.. drinks it worse then any petrol iv had regardless if you keep the rev range below 2k rpm. Around town i can scrape around 45mpg average

motorway i can get an impressive 68mpg average on the computer on a good day.. luckily for me i drive mainly motorway..

65mpg is my normal average motorway drive

65mpg isnt the actual what its getting tho, it probably would be if i was only doing motorway from the point i filled up to the point i stopped but i might say put 20 litres in the car and get 150miles and stil have 9.5litres left in the tank (65mpg on reading) and for that amount of litres in theory i should get at least 80miles but i wont ill just about scrape the 50miles to get me an overall average of 45mpg again from the 20 litres..but the computer will tell me that i got an average of 58mpg. The car seems to hate revving past 2k as it drinks it after that..

iv done many tests on mpg as i have plenty of time on my hands when im driving home on a weekend.

e.g i put 5 litres in the other day and got 70miles from it (motorway) which is 63mpg.

i know if i put 5 litres in though and was to drive round town i would bearly get 50miles for it.. (45mpg)

got some photos and videos to prove it also...

i had a VW jetta for a courtsey car and although the computer didnt read as high on the mpg it was far more accurate when transferring from motorway to town driving and was amazing still round town. Done the same on the motorway as the bravo though but would say i was getting 55mpg average.. Bravo's computer is way out sometimes. That model was the 2.0TDI Sport 140bhp.. in theory should of been worse due to size etc.. but i found it to be a better all round car for mpg and the computer would actually reflect what i got after doing a motorway and mixed town driving..

 

[petes.active1.2]

Sounds like it could be me. I dont really rev it over 3k but I will change up anywhere between 1800rpm to 3k rpm as I have read that the engine will warm up quicker and in theory keep the DPF in a healthy condition. correct me if I am wrong.

Also I would guess that if you changed up too early then the engine will labour and thus use more fuel and clog up the DPF due to the extra soot particles.
Still early days yet - only had car around 3 weeks and if I can get around 500 miles per tankful (45mpg) with my daily commute then Il be happy.

 

[death_paladin9]

40 mpg for 165 hp diesel is not bad, if you compare it do 120 hp petrol. That is 45 HP more for same fuel amount and a little bit cheaper then petrol.

With regards,

 

[Caravadossi]

... I collected my 2.0 M-Jet Sport 3 weeks ago ... I have come from a 1.2 GP active and the performance is amazing in comparison. Before my GP I had a Bravo T-Jet 150 Active which I had to sell due to financial commitments and I averaged 36/37 MPG in the 18 months of running it. One thing that is a little disapointing with my new motor is the fuel economy ...

Bravo 2.0 M-jet
The 2004/3/EC directive figure from the OH gives 53.3mpg (5.3L/100km) as the “combined” fuel consumption. I’ve heard it argued that if you get within –10% of that you’re doing fine. (Not sure where that `argument’ comes from – so can’t cite a ref). That would suggest you should be able to achieve 48 mpg.

Bravo 1.4 150HP T-jet
You’ve already submitted you achieved “36/37 MPG.” Then that fits with the above argument. The OH gives 40.4 mpg (7.0L/100km) … & -10% of that gives 36.4 mpg.

The rule also fits with my Prestigio 1.9/16v 150HP – the OH gives 46.3mpg (6.1L/100km) & it’s actually achieved 41.7 mpg (over 15K+mls).

It would be interesting to know the mpg from your GP 1.2 Active. I’ve also run a GP 1.2/8v 65HP – that broke the rule. The OH gave 47.9 mpg (5.9L/100km) - & I found that achievable.

 

[petes.active1.2]

Bravo 2.0 M-jet
It would be interesting to know the mpg from your GP 1.2 Active. I’ve also run a GP 1.2/8v 65HP – that broke the rule. The OH gave 47.9 mpg (5.9L/100km) - & I found that achievable.

With regards my GP Active 3dr 1.2 over the 6 months of ownership the trip average was around the 44 - 45 MPG. On a run down to Devon (250 Mile trip) I got approx 47 MPG at a steady 70mph. I have family down in Devon (Torquay) and I am looking forward to my next drive down there in the Bravo over Xmas. I imagine that I will use a fair bit less fuel too!!!

 

[Peerzy]

40 mpg for 165 hp diesel is not bad

I'd count that as terrible.

How about 39MPG and 179g/km and 272bhp from a petrol?

http://www.parkers.co.uk/cars/specs/Detail.aspx?deriv=38228

 

[Caravadossi]

... I average around 40-41 MPG according to the average setting on the trip. It seems to do a DPF regen every 100-120 miles or so and I guess that this wont help (Instant drops rapidly during this process) I don't rag her - I change up at 2.5k-3k ...

Forgot to mention a few other elements …

Part of your mpg `loss’ is within your 11 mile to-&-fro run. Whereas the cracking little 1.2 petrol warms-up in no-time-at-all – your diesel will run cold & under temp for nearly half of the 11 miles. Try (the HM Forces? rule) - where possible <40mph until optimum temp. (I say `where possible’ as it can invite furrowed brows when you’re in an exec jet that can do 70+ at 2K revs).

In a diesel you can change-up earlier than the “2.5k-3k” revs you mention – if you’re not too concerned about developing the medical condition of `EGR/DPF Twitch’. If you leave your dash display on [Inst mpg] you can play around with revs & gears to find optimum mpg.

Also worth checking the black-box av.mpg read-outs against the Mark 1 brim2brim measure. I found the av.mpg read-out from my GP 1.2/8v 65HP was over-reading – whereas my Prestigio 1.9/16v 150HP under-reads. But then only changes results by ±1 mpg.