Another 5.6 (OBC) on the way home today, after the cold start and first few km were excluded. I don't think I would see 5.5 on my car in these conditions: 90 km/h posted highway with hills and about 12 stoplights. The stoplights kill you and I usually hit at least 3 or 4 of them.
Only in BC would they be installing NEW stoplights on Vancouver Island's only highway!
I may drive to Tofino this weekend if the weather forecast holds true, so that would give a five-up and loaded "mostly highway" with few town/stoplight areas economy result. But flat roads would be better!
Hi Mike,
Why are you excluding all the bad #'s. Let the dice roll!!
Don't you really want to know the honest fuel consumption of you car over the total time of ownership. Why eliminate startups and the first few k. etc........
I've never reset and I know the the #'s showing have not been fudged by anyone except the slightly generous OBC.
Take a break from resetting for a bit and see the complete OBC #'s.
Off topic:
A while back we we're told that the original oil in the B was factory filled semi-synthetic.
Do you know of a way to confirm that statement and find out the name of oil that was factory installed in our B?
Cheers, Derek
My SAAB has a computer that will also show instant MPG or L/100, one time on a slight downslope it showed 2L/100 for close to 3 KM at a speed of 120 KPH However when people ask me what mileage I get I report the average 14.2L/100 K Fudge is only good when it has real calories and no artificial sweeteners.
The original oil in the car is good for 20000 KM so it would appear to be a full synthetic. The list of recommend oils show Mobil 1 is good for the full 20000 but others such as Quaker State are good for only 15000. Most cars come equipped with a full synthetic now a days so I can not see why MB would use anything less. But who knows what lurks in the bowels of the MB labs.
Derek
Reports of a MB helicopter flying north of Montreal, in stealth mode, are still unfounded. I think next trip you will find an average of 9L/100K and a free MB key Fob on the dash.
Bill
Hi Bill,
I did notice that stealth-mobile last night, but the bears that patrol our perimeter scared them away for now.
ps: Off-topic oil.
I think it was Dennis who contacted a German MB tech, who told him that the factory fill for the B was semi-synthetic. I'll try to find out who said it and report back.
Hope your's is a sunny one. Derek
I was seeing if I could replicate the number you got last weekend, that's why.
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Don't you really want to know the honest fuel consumption of you car over the total time of ownership. Why eliminate startups and the first few k. etc........
I don't have incomplete records; they're all visible to anyone at my spritmonitor account (see signature).
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I've never reset and I know the the #'s showing have not been fudged by anyone except the slightly generous OBC.
I am not sure I like the implication you are making there, Derek. I do not fudge the spritmonitor numbers.
Mike, Mike !! What I'm saying is anyone on your spritmonitor site can play with their #'s or fuel bills.
When I don't reset, I get a real feel of the fuel consumption from start to finish.
The next day or after 4 hours, it starts again.
With -30's some mornings, I surely don't get 5.5 or 5.6 l/100km and I really enjoy seeing the true variation from season to season using the OBC.
Off topic: Do you remember the comment of our B being filled with semi-synthetic oil from the factory? There is some very strange info coming out about not changing our oil as we have been, and I don't know what to believe.
Time to put the fudge back into the fridge, the temperature is a little warm and it might get soft and runny.
Bye the way what kind of bears?? Come out to B.C. to see real bears, we have lots of grizzle bears in them thar hills. We have lost more tourists to the bears than we have to the high Canadian Dollar The only critters near our house are raccoons and a family of beaver that intend on flooding the pond behind our house, but the thought of a possible moat should keep salesmen out.
Fuel prices peaked at 1.347 Cdn per liter this last weekend, high for us but an incentive for all our friends in other countries to visit. Our America friends will just have to come for the great beer
What I'm saying is anyone on your spritmonitor site can play with their #'s or fuel bills.
No-one but the person entering the data, and the webmasters, can play with anyone's data.
The spritmonitor webmasters in Germany certainly don't give a rat's ass what is entered for my car's FE, so.....who is left to be implicated in a fudge scandal?
The only critters near our house are raccoons and a family of beaver that intend on flooding the pond behind our house, but the thought of a possible moat should keep salesmen out.
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