car drinking petrol

[Robbie]

hey

i have a 1.1l peugeot 206 and it seems to be drinking petrol atm. don't have any figures about mpg or anything, but £15 at about 134.9p lasts me about half a day hardly driving anywhere. pretty much never brake or accelerate harshly as i have a smartbox on the car.

any idea what it could be?

thanks

[Shockwave.2CC]

I know my vehicle seems to be drinking its petrol like nobodys business. I only go on it like 3 times a week for about 30mins (1hr 30mins a week) and my tank seems to be near enough empty buy the 3rd day I go out on it

[redtom]

Roughly how many miles are you driving? You shouldn't be going through £15 in a half a day that's like 75 miles

[Robbie]

Roughly how many miles are you driving? You shouldn't be going through £15 in a half a day that's like 75 miles

About 10-15 lol

[myke]

Short journeys will use more petrol, is the car regularly serviced?

[redtom]

No way you should be using anywhere near that much fuel, book it in somewhere and get it checked out.

[Recursion]

That's ridiculous, I can easily make £45 (full tank) last ~3 - 4 weeks, with usage everyday in my 107.

[GoldenMerc]

That's ridiculous, I can easily make £45 (full tank) last ~3 - 4 weeks, with usage everyday in my 107.
I could prob drive say 35 miles on £10 to be fair and thats a hyundai coupe

[Metric1]

there's no way a 1.1L engine should burn that much petrol, my car is a 3.0L i6 and I was averaging 300 miles per tank on the highway on my way home.. so doing all the math it costs me a little more than 40 pounds to fill my car and drive 300 miles.

[Swearwolf]

get the fuel filter changed and if you cant do it yourself it wont cost much at a garage, the other BIG thing to check is air filter, you can easily do this yourself especially on a pug lmao and it only costs couple quid

[Robbie]

cheers guys, i'll +rep you all later.

[Disaronno]

Where you put you petrol it has a ball thing that floats. Its inside a glass tube, if the glass tube is broken it won't display on your gauge correctly. See if that's broken. Happened to my mate

[e5]

I was thinking it might be the gauge and not the actual amount of petrol in the tank. You may have plenty of petrol but your gauge is tellin you otherwise.

Where you put you petrol it has a ball thing that floats. Its inside a glass tube, if the glass tube is broken it won't display on your gauge correctly. See if that's broken. Happened to my mate

[tdi]

Tyres, air filter, fuel filter, lambda sensors, cat, emissions,

[You]

Buy a diesel, cheaper than sorting out the petrol pug ;)

[David]

is someone siphoning you

[Recursion]

Buy a diesel, cheaper than sorting out the petrol pug ;)

hahahahhaaha Diesel's taxed more in our backwards country, in the long run it wouldn't be.

[Swearwolf]

in newer cars petrols are far more economical now anyway lol diesel is almost not worth it in other cars, the price you pay for it you dont save a lot

[GoldenMerc]

diesels smelly aswel

[myke]

The only diesel 206 worth getting is the 2.0L HDi which will happily be more economical for long journeys (dual carriageways etc) but insurance wise it'll cost a bomb.

[GoldenMerc]

The only diesel 206 worth getting is the 2.0L HDi which will happily be more economical for long journeys (dual carriageways etc) but insurance wise it'll cost a bomb.

its the word "turbo" that seems to not screw me over, i don't even get the results back. only about 2-3 people touch me haha

[Undesirable]

I do an 80 mile round trip everyday to work. I spend about £50-55 a week on Petrol. My only benefit is i drive a long distance so my fuel stretches a little further. If you do loads of short journeys some cars will just eat fuel like its going out of Fashion. I want to change my car to a diesel but im not sure what i want.

[GoldenMerc]

I do an 80 mile round trip everyday to work. I spend about £50-55 a week on Petrol. My only benefit is i drive a long distance so my fuel stretches a little further. If you do loads of short journeys some cars will just eat fuel like its going out of Fashion. I want to change my car to a diesel but im not sure what i want.

Im on something silly like 18 miles to the gallon, considering getting LPG conversion

[Undesirable]

Car talk confuses me, i've been trying to work out my MPG, but again.. i'm not knowledgable about cars. I know that i get approx 420 miles every tank, depending on traffic etc i'm stuck in. Which seems reasonable? But it could be better i think.

[GoldenMerc]

Think 25-30 is reasonable. Depends what litre it is really, then again some new BMW's (2 litres) get 50+ mpg

[Undesirable]

I drive a Corsa SE i think it is. Petrol, 1.2 something or another. It was meant to have fantastic MPG and yet i don't really see it lol.. and i know when they publish those figures it's done under certain control.. but still! My brother drives a new shaped clio and it's diesel and he does the same miles and it barely even tickles the fuel guage!

[GoldenMerc]

I drive a Corsa SE i think it is. Petrol, 1.2 something or another. It was meant to have fantastic MPG and yet i don't really see it lol.. and i know when they publish those figures it's done under certain control.. but still! My brother drives a new shaped clio and it's diesel and he does the same miles and it barely even tickles the fuel guage!

You prob get like 22-25 per gallon

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[tdi]

I could prob drive say 35 miles on £10 to be fair and thats a hyundai coupe

That's not a good fuel economy out of something that's not a performance car.

[Shockwave.2CC]

My Motorbikes petrol seem to go down when its a hot day for some reason

Because a few days ago I filled it up and went on a 30mile ride (my bike can do just over 60miles on a full tank) and when i got home, it was just over 1/2 a tank left, then when i went to go out on it again the next day my tank was nearly empty

[Demi]

Should have gotten a diesel, my 1.9tdi golf mk4 does 52 miles per 7.50