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I wasnt going to make 1000 - I know that - But I was hoping to clear 900.

Last night went completely to 5h1t. After offering to pop 30 miles and see this A8 for Richard on the way back from Birmingham, the M6 was mostly closed Northbound and Birmingham was gridlocked.

I'd arrived in Birmingham with the fuel needle resting at the bottom, but still 25 miles showing in the tank.

After crawling for 30 mins towards spaghetti it became obvious that getting onto the M6 with minimal fuel was going to be a bit stupid.

I had no choice but to fill up in order to proceed.

Heres where i got to in the morning, I managed a further 3 more miles before pitting in the evening:



So, 819 miles. The 25 miles remaining was though painfully stationary traffic, and would have been 40 - 50 miles on a gentle motorway run, with an extra 30 ish miles once I'd gone past 0 miles on the DIS by my calculations.

This is all backed up the fact that she only drunk 83 litres to fill.

83 liters = 18.28 Gallons = 44.8 MPG. We know we needed 45.4 MPG to do 900 miles on a 90 liter tank, so I'm comfy we could have got there.

Could it do 1000?

Yes, I really think it could - Heres some reasons why I fell short:

1) Multiple journeys with multiple cold starts - Cold engine kills MPG + Aux heater kicks in using more fuel

2) Multiple journeys with parking and manouvering at each end

3) Several 14 miles journeys from Harrogate to the A1 and back - Lots of hills, bends and turns. Not good for MPG at all.

4) Although I did initially turn the A/C off - It turned itself back on at some point unknown to me. This explains why I averaged 50mpg on one journey and never managed it again <doh>

5) I was enjoying my 1000w of B&O far too much. I'm sure that wasnt power efficient

6) Likewise, the majority of journey was in the dark with lights etc blazing

7) I did probably 50% of the journey on ACC - Doing it manually would have been even more efficient I dont doubt.