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Old Feb 11th, 2012, 21:28   #1
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Hi present 240 saloon and estate owners

Out of interest what mpg do you get

A. Around town
B. On a motorway run at fair speeds lets say 70mph

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Hi present 240 saloon and estate owners

Out of interest what mpg do you get

A. Around town
B. On a motorway run at fair speeds lets say 70mph

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240 GLT estate auto.

A no idea only do mostly A roads and through small towns.

from full to the start of reserve around 265 miles at the moment. Not great but could be worse!! How much fuel does the reserve hold?

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Worst: about 19-21 mpg (urban).

Overall: 23.8 mpg (~3,300 miles, about 2/3 urban).

Best: 33-35 mpg (after decent runs).

My typical cruising is around 60mph as long as road and traffic conditions allow, but I'm quite happy at 50mph. I'm in no hurry and the enormous roof rack makes quite a bit of noise at speed. Before I got the rack I would do 70(ish) mph quite happily and it still easily gave 30+ mpg.

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25-28 in town, 32ish on the motorway. 1993 estate, B200F, M47, either 3.73 or 3.91 axle and 205/55 16 oversized tyres.

32 was achieved on a haul to north Wales heavily laden down and doing 75-80 the whole way up the motorway, so I could probably get better out of it if I actually tried.
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How much fuel does the reserve hold?

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About 8 litres. The most I've ever got in it in one go is 52 litres (nominal 60 litre tank) and the needle was just below the white line at the bottom of the red region before fill-up. The red also holds about 7-8 litres, so if the needle is at the top of the red you still should have around a quarter of a tank of fuel.
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25-28 B200F, M47, either 3.73 or 3.91 axle and 205/55 16 oversized tyres.
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Thanks for this although what is a B200F M47 (I take it is the engine type? - long time since we had a 240 series with the last one being a 145DL back in the 70's and a 244DL back in 82/3)

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B200F is the 2.0 engine, 10:1 compression, with electronic fuel injection (1990-1993). M47 is the 5-speed gearbox (1986-1993).
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Chugging about around here I can push it to 300 out of a full tank. So think comes to 27 ish. B200e that is.
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Chugging about around here I can push it to 300 out of a full tank. So think comes to 27 ish. B200e that is.
So what is the difference between the e and the f?

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On our last holiday, Shropshire/Staffordshire, it was around 32mpg. That included some motorway/A-road driving but a fair amount of pootling around country lanes and stop-start driving in town traffic. Three people, two Collies and masses of luggage as it was November and we needed lots of warm clothes. We find that it runs a lot better, and presumably more economically, on 97 octane petrol, but whether it justifies the extra cost is debatable.
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