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(Message started by: JohnJ on Apr 12^th, 2004, 6:51pm)

Title: Good MPG from the 2.3 ;D
Post by JohnJ on Apr 12^th, 2004, 6:51pm

I was comming home from Donegal (Ireland) my home place and filled the car with petrol just over the border in southern Ireland as its only 63p per litre.....anyhow I reset the computer (average mpg) and drove a constant 56mph as much as I could. to cut a long storey short I got a astoninsing 37.4mpg.....and for the sceptics out there this photo was taken when I got home and turned off the engine. the trip was 90 miles.

http://groups.msn.com/TheFordScorpio1995/johnjscarwiththesticker.msnw?action=ShowPhoto&PhotoID=462

There was a nice clean MAF :) ;) :D ;D

These are marvelous on long jorneys.

JJ ;D ;D

Title: Re: Good MPG from the 2.3 ;D
Post by Alan on Apr 13^th, 2004, 9:33am

I wish I could get that sort of mpg out of my car. I have a 24v cosi and it hooves about 19/20 mpg arroud town and short motorway miles.
Nice one ;) ;) ;)

Title: Re: Good MPG from the 2.3 ;D
Post by Badboytunes on Apr 13^th, 2004, 9:08pm

Hey Al, I went away over the weekend and managed 28.9 @79mph on the motorway. The only problem was trying to avoid all the people cutting me up!!!.

C ya at derby

Title: Re: Good MPG from the 2.3 ;D
Post by Alan on Apr 14^th, 2004, 12:02am

Yer looking forward to it.
see what we can avrage on the way up is it ;)see you there
Alan

Title: Re: Good MPG from the 2.3 ;D
Post by geraghtyg on Apr 14^th, 2004, 3:03pm

I cleaned the MAF and have learned to be light with the throttle - I also do a lot of cruising when I see a line of cars of red traffic lights ahead. My MPG is up to an averge of about 24MPG now - That's with mainly open roads and a few miles city driving. Although the cith driving is ok this week - due to Easter holidays, the roads are fairly clear. What a Godsend! Still, when I first got the car, I was getting about 21-22MPG (before I cleaned the MAF)!

Title: Re: Good MPG from the 2.3 ;D
Post by JohnJ on Apr 14^th, 2004, 6:16pm

Just picked up the wife from the airport and got 33.1mpg this time, Newry to Belfast had to go through Lisburn which is now a city and got held up behind a tractor. on a flat road it gets up to 40mpg, soon as I hit a slight incline it falls to around 27 and then settles....I think the cruise control can sometimes be a bit severe on the throttle, if the speed drops suddenly because of a very sharp incline the CC will think nothing of flooring it. so when I see a large hill I'll turn off CC and ease it up the hill ::). ...but as far as scorpios go its good on the juice. I've done over 200 miles now and still have over a 1/2 tank of petrol.
;D
JJ

Title: Re: Good MPG from the 2.3 ;D
Post by Richard on May 18^th, 2004, 6:54pm

Hello,
Are you relying on the fuel computer ?,I think you might be by the figures you are coming up with.