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13th January 2016, 06:33 AM
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Special OCD award?
Well, I have owned my current '8 for just over 3 years now and, as some of you know, I'm rather fond of the old gal.
 One of my (many) OCD habits is to log every tank-full of petrol, the mileage and the MPG from the pump volume and odometer (more accurate than the DIS figure). It's also a helpful early warning of minor problems (as you can see from the attached log). The log covers 3 years and 65K miles. Does this get today's OCD award? 
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2002 Final Edition S8. Ebony black with Silver Grey leather and myrtle wood trim. Current mods: solar sun roof, 20mm rear spacers, 15 mm on front, red brembo callipers, 6k headlights, rear view camera, engine remap, alloy dash dial rings, alloy navi rings, tt/phaeton pedal upgrade, (and custom matching foot rest) dension ipod interface & parrot hands free kit (both fully hidden), av input, tv in motion switched thro' PF switch in blanking plug right of steering column, Audi 'quattro' sill covers, repositioned centre console switches, radio clock, .Planned mods: auto-dimming rear view mirror, dash cam (as steamship's), fit the ski hatch, refit philips drl's (or maybe not - nope, definitely not - horrible botch!). 
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13th January 2016, 07:12 AM
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#3
13th January 2016, 08:08 AM
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Nice work Jim.
I also do the same with our cars. In our spreadsheet there's a column to calculate the average over 10 recent fill ups. I find this useful as we can't always fill up when empty and thus removes the extreme MPG readings when calculating MPG per fill up.
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13th January 2016, 08:27 AM
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 It shouldn't matter if you fill up when empty or not. The MPG is simply the number of miles covered on the trip odometer divided by the amount of fuel used to fill up. You don't have to wait until the tank is empty, but you do have to fill it up each time and remember to reset the trip to zero.
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2002 Final Edition S8. Ebony black with Silver Grey leather and myrtle wood trim. Current mods: solar sun roof, 20mm rear spacers, 15 mm on front, red brembo callipers, 6k headlights, rear view camera, engine remap, alloy dash dial rings, alloy navi rings, tt/phaeton pedal upgrade, (and custom matching foot rest) dension ipod interface & parrot hands free kit (both fully hidden), av input, tv in motion switched thro' PF switch in blanking plug right of steering column, Audi 'quattro' sill covers, repositioned centre console switches, radio clock, .Planned mods: auto-dimming rear view mirror, dash cam (as steamship's), fit the ski hatch, refit philips drl's (or maybe not - nope, definitely not - horrible botch!).
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13th January 2016, 08:51 AM
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I generally fill up to about 1/2 or 3/4 tank, rarely do I have a full tank unless I know it's a long journey. Therefore for me I can't work out how many litres I've used.
Do you fill up to full?
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13th January 2016, 08:53 AM
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Yes, always to the cut off at the pump.
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2002 Final Edition S8. Ebony black with Silver Grey leather and myrtle wood trim. Current mods: solar sun roof, 20mm rear spacers, 15 mm on front, red brembo callipers, 6k headlights, rear view camera, engine remap, alloy dash dial rings, alloy navi rings, tt/phaeton pedal upgrade, (and custom matching foot rest) dension ipod interface & parrot hands free kit (both fully hidden), av input, tv in motion switched thro' PF switch in blanking plug right of steering column, Audi 'quattro' sill covers, repositioned centre console switches, radio clock, .Planned mods: auto-dimming rear view mirror, dash cam (as steamship's), fit the ski hatch, refit philips drl's (or maybe not - nope, definitely not - horrible botch!).
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13th January 2016, 09:03 AM
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That does make it easier.
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13th January 2016, 10:35 AM
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13th January 2016, 10:42 AM
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2002 Final Edition S8. Ebony black with Silver Grey leather and myrtle wood trim. Current mods: solar sun roof, 20mm rear spacers, 15 mm on front, red brembo callipers, 6k headlights, rear view camera, engine remap, alloy dash dial rings, alloy navi rings, tt/phaeton pedal upgrade, (and custom matching foot rest) dension ipod interface & parrot hands free kit (both fully hidden), av input, tv in motion switched thro' PF switch in blanking plug right of steering column, Audi 'quattro' sill covers, repositioned centre console switches, radio clock, .Planned mods: auto-dimming rear view mirror, dash cam (as steamship's), fit the ski hatch, refit philips drl's (or maybe not - nope, definitely not - horrible botch!).
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13th January 2016, 10:49 AM
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Audi D3 S8 - 2007 - V10. B&O, Phantom Black, black and silver interior, and still completely standard with everything working as it should Audi TT - 2015 - Ultra
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