Another bargain!

[lozz]

Nice,
have you notice all old minis have low mileage,
there either been used for 5mins aday, or woundback with a black & Decor drill

[FarmerPug]

odd innit?
no bsi to remember the mileage i suppose.

[lozz]

Nope no Bsi,
just a cable , fits nicely in the end of a drill, Ha.
iwish the 406s where that easy to trim afew miles off, id use it alot, more, Damn insurance low Mileage Deals,
Icouidnt go back to a Mini idont think, The Metros wernt to bad Nippy and cheap to insure, other than the Hydrospastic spension problems they where cool, wished icouid find another motor that icouid insure for peanuts like the minis-and the Metros,
ive been looking closely at the Daewoo Matish but that wouid be Scraping the bottom of the pan,

[FarmerPug]

the pandas as close to a mini for the just you and the car feeling.
the metro i remember the one my dad had broke down all the time and was only about 5 years old but so rusty it had to be scrapped

[lozz]

ive been looking at fiats strangely,
Mk3 puntos, have you seen the price of em,
W regs are going for £1200 full of dents ,

The End is nigh for my 406 tho its a Money pit, Reliable but insurers are making aMeal out of it,
ive heard off the grapevine my insurance is going up £125 on renewal which is a month a way,

[FarmerPug]

im happy with my 406 at the moment its reliable but just isnt doing 50mpg.

[lozz]

You wont acheive 50mpg out of any big car ,
the 406 is a big heavy lump, think of what its lugging,
on a Straight motorway run they will acheive a good 46 mpg,
not bad that,

Mines getting 40mpg ish round town, driven normaly,
drop the pedal and its around 36mpg,
but after driving big petrol cars for years ifind the 406 very cheap to run,

its just the Frikin insurance thats the down fall, My Postcode is on the hit list tho so icarnt realy blame the 406 for that,
but theyre a comon taxi up here dunno if that as out to do with it,
but iwas Propositioned Recently, by some dodgey taxi driver who mentioned did iwant to test my Air bag for a grand up front,
nah passed on that but it shows whats going on

[STALLED]

I'm getting around the 30mpg mark around town - happy enough with it.

That said, my next car will be 40+ - considering the amount of driving I do, a Golf Blumotion is looking rather attractive!

[waue1978]

You wont acheive 50mpg out of any big car ,
the 406 is a big heavy lump, think of what its lugging,
on a Straight motorway run they will acheive a good 46 mpg,
not bad that,

Mines getting 40mpg ish round town, driven normaly,
drop the pedal and its around 36mpg,
but after driving big petrol cars for years ifind the 406 very cheap to run,

its just the Frikin insurance thats the down fall, My Postcode is on the hit list tho so icarnt realy blame the 406 for that,
but theyre a comon taxi up here dunno if that as out to do with it,
but iwas Propositioned Recently, by some dodgey taxi driver who mentioned did iwant to test my Air bag for a grand up front,
nah passed on that but it shows whats going on

Thank God for that! There's somebody else getting similar mpg figures to me. Mind, I couldn't even get 50mpg out of a brand new Hyundai i30 diesel on a run...

[FarmerPug]

at the moment my car says 36mpg but it seems worse for the small amount my dad has to spend on fuel for the nissan

[DiscoPol]

You wont acheive 50mpg out of any big car ,
the 406 is a big heavy lump, think of what its lugging,
on a Straight motorway run they will acheive a good 46 mpg,
not bad that,

sorry lozz you are wrong mate, take a look at this thread about my first drive over in the '06
viewtopic.php?f=5&t=10294&start=15
but to help here is the post you should be looking for

Im Here!

took just under 36 hours with ferries and a little rest time but 1355.4 miles later im in my new country, and its bloody snowing!

so first things first a set of winter tyres is needed if this snow is gonna last, the family reckon its going to clear in the next few days, but after the somewhat exciting last few miles through untreated roads if this snow is here for another couple of weeks then snow tyres are gonna be an essential.

The 406 did a fantastic job in shifting over 600kg of belongings and people 2168 kilometres, she didnt miss a beat and was as comfortable as you could hope for, for what was essentially a van.

got weighed at a friends weighbridge on the way off and the laden weight was a tad under 2000kg, now the wifes is a mere slip of a thing (all that cabbage you know) and im not but the sum total of all the PCs, TVs, Monitors, kitchen bits, clothes, and other stuff answered any questions i might have had about what a lowered 90 estate might look like

To those of you interested in the fuel consumption for a well loaded 90 hdi estate on a fairly long run..................... 57.7mpg over the full distance of 1355.4 miles:D

it would have been much higher except for that damn Germany, the Auto Bahns cost me about 10 mpg over the whole trip but conversely i did manage the width of Germany in a little under 5 hours with 2 stops for food and "waste management" and a little roadworks but when the chance of a good run is there and you just want to get where your going as soon as possible, it seems rude not to cruise at the highest possible safe speed your vehicle can do, obviously only in the de restricted areas , but as i said this cost me a bloody fortune in the fuel department, the MFD was telling me the instant consumption was running around the 28mpg when cruising at that speed, and the braking distances had to be seriously re-thought

When i entered germany my overall consumption was running at about 67mpg over about 725 miles, after a fill up in Belgium,then realising that i had put the millers (fuel additive/injector cleaner) back where it lives in the side storage compartment in the boot and loaded the car to the roof the 406 had to live with just standard diesel for the run through Germany so a combination of this and the speed really ruined the hypermiling, but im headed back in the next couple of weeks for another car full of bits and pieces and next time im not going to do the Bahns at quite the same pace so hopefully i can get my consumption for the journey down to a decent number.

Overall though i was very impressed with the HDIs behaviour for the trip

overall consumption for the trip was 105.7 litres @ an average of about £1.04 per litre giving a fuel cost £109.93p add that to the ferry at £17 it means i managed to get 2 people, 1 car and nearly half a ton of belongings to Poland for £126.93p, you would struggle to fly for that, never mind the lack of car and belongings

I have some pics that i will try and post up later but im on the worlds slowest connection at the moment and i dont want to try uploading to photobucket till i get mine sorted out (connection that is) the consumption through the first bit of the trip was phenomenal at 72.5mpg over 300 miles i just had to take a few pictures of the MFD readout I think thats got to be my best run on the hypermiling so far considering as i said the car was fully loaded and it was on british motorways so not really renowned for their smooth ebb and flow of traffic. If i had kept that up i would have only had to pay out £104.49p for the whole trip

now that ive typed that and worked out that the autobahns only cost me about 20 quid to play on im not that bothered about the lowered MPG figure (but the yorkshireman inside me is screaming out about the frivolous waste of money )

So thanks again everybody for the cool messages and Hello from the newest Polish member

[lozz]

@ Disco,
Everybodys mpg is going to Differ, we all drive differntly,
some of us have had the odd Tweek here and there , the Mpg istated above is an Estimate,
your welcome to your opinion that im im wrong but , not all cars or peoples driving style are going to square up,

and then theres the fact that the Fuel gauge on these 406s aint acurate to start with,
the Fuel reserve on these things are Massive,
to get an accurate Reading id have to let the tank empty and brim it to work out what it actualy does .

[FarmerPug]

the gague i have is part of the problem it drops back into the red very easy.
but at the moment im just not doing very big miles which begins going up a hill and because round here is full of bmw and audi drivers its not practical to drive economically with them.

[DiscoPol]

your welcome to your opinion that im im wrong

ta

it was just the blanket statement that "You wont acheive 50mpg out of any big car" that i was disagreeing with m8,


Im a bit of a pedant on opinion being put over as fact, hope you dont take it personally, it certainly wasn't intended that way

edit, all my figures were "brim to brim" sums so i know they are accurate, i had a 406 long enough to know never trust the fuel gauge

[FarmerPug]

thats my problem not brimming the tank any more and putting £25 in (which these days is a sample) the worst i seen it was putting £25 in and the trip computer registering 233 miles to empty, i did 30 miles and it was in the red and ---- miles to empty, you dont know then how far is left its a bit risky.