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16v drinking or not????

Posted: Wed Oct 25, 2006 7:57 pm
by twistedl
I have just upgraded from a 1.0 6n to the 16v 6n and I am wondering how many miles people get with before the petrol light comes on from a full tank. The reason I am asking this is that my car has done about 230 miles and has hit the line before the red. With my old 1.0 I used to have about 330 before that stage, so I am wondering if it has a problem. I have been booting it fairly at times but should this make the car use that much petrol.

Posted: Wed Oct 25, 2006 11:02 pm
by david burton
sounds about right - 320 miles out of a whole 16v tank is the best I EVER got. usually closer to 280/300.

giving it some would get 250 miles I'm sure. what sort of driving?

Posted: Thu Oct 26, 2006 2:40 pm
by KITT
Blimey! Mine must be a special 16v as the light doesn't come on till about 320 miles :) My best ever was 412 miles with 2lts remaining!

On average I tend to get about 350 miles out of a tank. And that's with 15 miles motorway to and from work at 80mph (i.e. 4200rpm). And plenty of red lining along the back roads between the motorway and home :D It's also modified running a K&N panel filter and a full cat back stainless exhaust system.

Posted: Thu Oct 26, 2006 3:10 pm
by mysteryboy
KITT wrote:Blimey! Mine must be a special 16v as the light doesn't come on till about 320 miles :) My best ever was 412 miles with 2lts remaining!

On average I tend to get about 350 miles out of a tank. And that's with 15 miles motorway to and from work at 80mph (i.e. 4200rpm). And plenty of red lining along the back roads between the motorway and home :D It's also modified running a K&N panel filter and a full cat back stainless exhaust system.
Interesting...

Wanna sell? :P