Fuel consumption
14 January 2014, 02:23 PM
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Well considering I had subaru's for 10yrs now I think you could be wrong.
FYI, fuel injected cars don't use ANY fuel on over run so why would you press the gas and waste fuel when you don't have to,
leave it in 5th and you do pretty much the same speed with your foot off the gas.
If you want to p!ss your money up the wall that's your choice, I chose to spend mine wisely and still have fun with both of my subarus.
P.S. Excuse me I just clocked your username and spelling and now realise i'm dealing with a retard.
FYI, fuel injected cars don't use ANY fuel on over run so why would you press the gas and waste fuel when you don't have to,
leave it in 5th and you do pretty much the same speed with your foot off the gas.If you want to p!ss your money up the wall that's your choice, I chose to spend mine wisely and still have fun with both of my subarus.
P.S. Excuse me I just clocked your username and spelling and now realise i'm dealing with a retard.
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14 January 2014, 02:30 PM
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you trying to be cleaver - only DIESEL engines don't take any fuel when in gear and off the throttle
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Nice edit of your original post, maybe you'd like to edit the one above too.
14 January 2014, 02:38 PM
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16 January 2014, 05:36 PM
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Well, back to the topic
I filled up with Shells vPower Nitro Plus stuff earlier, pulled out of the garage, fuel tank only showing 50% full! However, i was seemingly generating fuel on my way home, as the needle kept going up and up and up. Stopped started the engine a couple of times, nothing. Weird. At just over full now though.
Anyone else had this? Surely it's just a coincidence?
I filled up with Shells vPower Nitro Plus stuff earlier, pulled out of the garage, fuel tank only showing 50% full! However, i was seemingly generating fuel on my way home, as the needle kept going up and up and up. Stopped started the engine a couple of times, nothing. Weird. At just over full now though.
Anyone else had this? Surely it's just a coincidence?
16 January 2014, 05:46 PM
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mine takes a while to go to the top, nothing to worry about, they have a system to stop the fuel level being transfered to the gauge while it sloshes about
16 January 2014, 06:32 PM
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Well, back to the topic
I filled up with Shells vPower Nitro Plus stuff earlier, pulled out of the garage, fuel tank only showing 50% full! However, i was seemingly generating fuel on my way home, as the needle kept going up and up and up. Stopped started the engine a couple of times, nothing. Weird. At just over full now though.
Anyone else had this? Surely it's just a coincidence?
I filled up with Shells vPower Nitro Plus stuff earlier, pulled out of the garage, fuel tank only showing 50% full! However, i was seemingly generating fuel on my way home, as the needle kept going up and up and up. Stopped started the engine a couple of times, nothing. Weird. At just over full now though.
Anyone else had this? Surely it's just a coincidence?
I find that my 2005 Wrx takes over 5 mins plus to reach thefull level after filling up. The arm in the tank/electronics is very under-sensitive unlike most women
17 January 2014, 03:02 PM
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Last tank did 300 miles, and still not low enough for fuel light.
50/50 motorway and town.... Come to think of it after nearly a year of ownership I have never seen the fuel light.....
Must check the hand book to see where it actually is....
50/50 motorway and town.... Come to think of it after nearly a year of ownership I have never seen the fuel light.....
Must check the hand book to see where it actually is....
18 January 2014, 09:15 PM
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[quote=Streetracersti;11323528]you trying to be cleaver - only DIESEL engines don't take any fuel when in gear and off the throttle
Please elaborate, how to MPI petrol injectors work then?
Please elaborate, how to MPI petrol injectors work then?
18 January 2014, 09:29 PM
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Had mine almost six and a half years I get 260 to 280 miles full tank to petrol light running on 99 octane with a mixture of driving over the week the only variant is ambient temps summer to winter about 10 miles extra out of a tank. Mapped at 34,000 now 69,000 gain of 10 miles extra out of a tank after map.
19 January 2014, 02:19 AM
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It does come on but you have to get it low (which I try to avoid) and doesn't get you many miles when on. Although with your mpg it might last a while,I can only dream of that mpg although am due a map check at some point soon. Think the most I ever squeezed was around 260miles on a tank but I generally only get about 50-60miles to £20 of shell optimax/vpower/nitro
19 January 2014, 02:25 AM
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Hi all, second question of the night, had my 06 2.5l Hawkeye for seven months now and loving every minute ; ) the car is my everyday runner so been running it on 95 octane, it has been serviced, loved and everything seems fine. Now obviously I understand that if you toe it every where then the fuel consumption is going to be bad. This past month I have been driving very carefully to try and save some money and I'm still only getting about 80ish miles to half a tank ? Now I totally get the fact that I have purchased a Sports car and economy and going fast don't mix lol, but when I'm not driving quickly which is the majority of the time I would hope the mpg to be a bit better any suggestions ???
19 January 2014, 02:38 AM
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Right, so most of you who have replied have STI's and as stated in the owners manual you have to run it on 98 or better. Mine is just a standard WRX and it says that 95 or better is to be used and it says this also on the label on the inside of the fuel filler cap. So surely it's ok to use it in my car and higher octane is just a performance bonus. I'm going to start using momentum now as there is a tesco local to me but I'm worried now that I've unknowingly done damage.
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