General Average petrol usage on 1.2 8v Punto?

[gingerbenn]

Am slight worried about the amount of petrol a punto 1.2 8v I picked up for my girlfriend is using.

I only purchased it Saturday, tank was empty light on dash I wacked in £20 and drove home about 25miles. Gauge after puting £20 of petrol in at roughly £1.23 litre was showing just under half a tank.

I've worked out I roughly done 60 miles since putting the petrol in and the gauge is showing just under quarter of petrol is left.

Does this seem right?
I thought these punto's did pretty well on petrol???
Engine seems to be running fine as well.

I know petrol prices have gone up, but what do most people with punto 1.2 8v get on your fuel gauge when you put £20 of petrol in the tank if your fuel gauge light was on?????

 

[SeanW]

By that, you're estimating 240 miles to the tank?

On motorway runs, I can do that on half a tank (same engine)

 

[gingerbenn]

Sean how many miles would you get on half a tank of petrol?
B

 

[rallycinq]

Fuel gauges are

a) gauges not instruments

and

b) Not linear

The only way to check the consumption is to fill it to the brim, drive it for a tankful, then refill noting how far you've gone.

Bear in mind that with cold ambient temps you will use more fuel.

Cheers

D

 

[david295]

Am slight worried about the amount of petrol a punto 1.2 8v I picked up for my girlfriend is using.

I only purchased it Saturday, tank was empty light on dash I wacked in £20 and drove home about 25miles. Gauge after puting £20 of petrol in at roughly £1.23 litre was showing just under half a tank.

I've worked out I roughly done 60 miles since putting the petrol in and the gauge is showing just under quarter of petrol is left.

Does this seem right?
I thought these punto's did pretty well on petrol???
Engine seems to be running fine as well.

I know petrol prices have gone up, but what do most people with punto 1.2 8v get on your fuel gauge when you put £20 of petrol in the tank if your fuel gauge light was on?????

i get 580 on a full tank mk 2 1.2 8valve

 

[Focus Owner]

http://www.fuelly.com/driver/dazrich/punto
might be worth signing up

 

[gingerbenn]

David295 how much does it usually cost to fill whole take on your 1.2 8v?

Just concerned that £20 worths of petrol has't lasted very long in my punto, it was on empty and felt very empty when filled up with £20 of petrol. Gauge only registered just under half a tank which I was surprised at. I roughly worked out I've done just over 65miles and my gauge is showing on the 2nd from last bar from registering empty plus the light on the fuel gauge has already come on.

On £20 worth of petrol I was at least expecting a good 200miles or more.
Average price of petrol around my way is £1.20ish a litre.

 

[Benny 1992]

its a 47 litre tank on 1.2 8v puntos so £20 is not going to be half a tank cos thats only like 14 litres or summat

 

[Oll1e]

I think ur lookin at about right. It depends a hell of alot on where your driving, i.e town vs motorway, and how you drive, i.e boy racer vs grandad! Also Puntos have quite a big reserve on them. My petrol light always comes on just before it reaches the red zone, yet the on board computer always says i have around 100 miles of driving left, and thats just on the reserve so to speak. So if u filled up when it was litterally on fumes then you did well to get it near the half way mark on just £20. and as rallycinq said, they arn't linear as you'l see if you fill your tank up to full. The first half always goes pretty slowly, then the second half seems to get used up really fast!

 

[DaveMcT]

Fill it properly (cheaper anyway as fuel prices are continually rising) and then fill again after 200 miles or so. Then you can work out the true consumption. A full to (nearly) empty tank gives a better mpg average.

If its below 40mpg on long runs come back and discuss any other running symptoms.

 

[GoGoPunto]

i have a 3dr 1.2 8v punto, i drive in and around central london 6 days a week. If i drive carefully i can easily achieve 40-44mpg. if traffic is heavy or if i push it a bit i tend to get about 37mpg.

i normally fill up £15 at a time and get 110miles for it.

fuel prices are fluctuating a lot right now, so the above is only an average of what i've been getting recently.

hope that helps!

 

[Brendan W]

We get 9 to 10 miles per litre on average , sensible mixed driving.

 

[RuSZ]

^^ thats about 43mpg for the above post.

I have an average on the trip computer of 47.8mpg but tend not to reset the computer.

I tend to do a mix of motorway and city driving, and have had 56mpg on a motorway journey from Leeds to London.

but in real terms measuring against miles against fuel used im getting around 43mpg.

 

[gingerbenn]

Ok am going to do a proper check on the mpg, when I fill up again.
Found this pretty useful website: http://www.fuel-economy.co.uk/calc.shtml

At the moment I think I am averaging about 36mpg, with alittle but motorway and mostly town driving.

Can anyone tell home much petrol I have when your gauge is on the botton orange bar?

Also I take it the Punto Mia model does't have the extra details on the trip computer, eg it being able to tell me how many miles I should get with current tank of fuel?? I seem to only be able to get actually mileage of car and reset the trip to record current journey.

B

 

[Ziggy122]

I find that i get about 60miles to the first quater of a tank
and then it improves, pure and simply as i'm not lugging around a Huge tank of fuel

When i was driving like a Twong on short runs 95% of the times i would get 240miles to a full tank Computer estimating about 30mpg (which probs is wrong)

But when i behaved i can easily get 300 / 300+, that includes the odd time where you do have to use full throttle and the red line


And i thought the Punto's had a 40 or 45 litre tank

Ziggy

 

[DaveMcT]

I think the realistic max capacity is 45 litres but avoid going too far as the fuel pump will collect dirt from the tank bottom and if you run out it may struggle to prime. At 9 or 10 miles to the litre it could go over 400 miles on a tank.

The mpg trip is faily rubbish so set the miles trip and unless the gauge goes very low refill at 350 miles.

 

[Focus Owner]

I think the realistic max capacity is 45 litres but avoid going too far as the fuel pump will collect dirt from the tank bottom and if you run out it may struggle to prime. At 9 or 10 miles to the litre it could go over 400 miles on a tank.

The mpg trip is faily rubbish so set the miles trip and unless the gauge goes very low refill at 350 miles.

i have put in 48 before

 

[andycam06]

i get 580 on a full tank mk 2 1.2 8valve

did you build your own reserve tank or something

best i got out of mine was 420 and it averaged 42mpg

as said you cant judge by throwing in £20 and saying now the needle is here...
fill her to the brim, reset the trip, drive her till lowish, then fill her to the brim again and do the sums.
but it seems right enough to me