Sinky
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Help please I just done 83.3km and used 9.41 litres At the currant exchange rate 1.23 euro to the £ It works out at approx £10.50 to do approx 52 miles So say about 25miles to the gallon A bit on motorway and town driving. Is that about right for a Merc w124 2lt petrol manual do you think   thanks |
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How did you drive it? 'Normal' and steady, or with a heavy foot? For normal driving that sounds like too much. But I'm totaly clueless about the modern W124 M111 engines... Oxygen sensor? A temperature sensor? Loom of doom?
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That's 51.76 miles, and 2.06 Gallons = 25.1mpg.
I'm going to guess that most, if not all, of the journeys were short - under 10 miles - as you've only done 50 miles in total, so it's probably not unreasonable. Bear in mind that the 2.0 will be working quite hard on the motorway.
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Sinky
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Yeah!! spot on short journeys not driven hard and it certainly (2lt) has to work hard on the motorway. m111 pretty gutless really pulling a w124
I don't think it suffers from the loom of doom. Does it?
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Brian Damaged
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Merc ce 200 manual mpgBrian Damaged
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How short are your journeys? if it's mainly town driving, that's probably about right, urban driving will cost you whatever you drive. My wife's 06-plated 1400 Fiesta only does about 28mpg on short journeys.
My W124 is a '94 E200 auto, I do a 36 mile per day commute on a mix of motorway/A-road and it's averaging 36mpg. I've checked and double-checked it and it's 100% accurate. Worst I've had is 34, best 38. On a long journey sitting at 60-65 with the cruise control on it does just over 40mpg. Having said that I do very little town driving with it.
As far as I know it's the six-cylinder models which suffer most from engine bay wiring loom troubles.
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ChasR
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Some big engined cars do surprise you on MPG.
A sheddy Ovlov 740 2.3i Auto I owned did 35MPG average loaded up on a 40 mile commute, with a more modern injected 2.0 before it doing 30MPG average.
The strange one was the troublesome Mondeo V6 we owned. With a slushmatic 'box and not being particularly careful with nearly pure town driving it used to average 24MPG.
In your case for short journeys I would expect it to be better, but not by alot.
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my '95 E220 auto does ok too. worst is around 30, and the best on a motorway run to benzboys hood was 42. i can handle that.  |
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Air flow meters are prone to go a but senile with age on these , any flat spots or hesitation when driving ?
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Sinky
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Jun 10, 2012 12:29:54 GMT
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Yeah .....sometimes. I never really boot it tho?
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I don't think it's far off the mark, my 300SE does about 18mpg on the daily commute, and 25 on a long run (both on LPG) (22/28 mpg on petrol)
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thanks
