Rover 200 & 400 Owners Club - Miles per tank of fuel?

Paul_1978_yorks · Post by **Paul_1978_yorks** » Fri Jun 13, 2008 11:26 pm

Paul_1978_yorks wrote:I have a Rover 214SEi. I do 200 motorway miles per week and about 25 miles per week round town.

It has a 55 litre tank and I get about 380 miles per tank out of it on a good week (depending on how I drive it etc). I rarely go above 70mph on the motorway and drive it carefully.

Cheers
Paul

Further to previous, I've recently been getting 420 miles per tank (getting down to last 5 litres before filling up) which is strange because I'm not driving any differently.
Cheers!
Paul

DiverJim · Post by **DiverJim** » Fri Aug 15, 2008 2:24 pm

I have a 1995 214 SLi 16v. 101k. I run from Plymouth to Portsmouth every week and average 430 miles to a tank, costing £51 to fill. Around town I get about 320 miles to the same fill. I think I use more coolant than fuel!

mo · Post by mo » Mon Aug 18, 2008 12:03 pm

I get about 400 miles out of my SLD, and I drive it hard

, though I don't really go above 70 on the motorway though.

Red Icon · Post by **Red Icon** » Mon Aug 18, 2008 7:46 pm

I've nevered check what I get per tank but my VVC Coupe does about 38/40 mpg and I rarely go over 100mph on the motorway

the wife wont let me

The R8 Man · Post by **The R8 Man** » Mon Aug 18, 2008 8:02 pm

An obvious enharncement, but I've found I get around an extra 35-40 miles from a tank full of petrol if I give the tyres a few more psi, currently running my single point 214 on 32psi all round (opposed to 30psi in the handbook) and I can manage just over 400 miles on a good run from London to Lancashire, though that was untill my nerves held out so I guess fully brimmed to empty might see another 15 to 20 on top of that.
Weight is another big factor, with four passengers I'd be lucky to get 370 miles....

r216si · Post by **r216si** » Tue Aug 19, 2008 8:07 am

well on £35 i got 292 miles

mo · Post by mo » Tue Aug 19, 2008 9:24 am

Agreed fully on weight, if you want better millage take everything you don't need out f the boot, and take off that roof rack (if you have one). Also, what do we need rear seats for anyway?

Oh and Red Icon, careful what you say on a public forum. KNowing what the police are like these days, if they read it you will be nicked

. Anyone remember the guy who was arrested for posting a video of his escort on you tube?

Mo

richard moss · Post by **richard moss** » Tue Aug 19, 2008 9:26 pm

r216si wrote:well on £35 i got 292 miles

I get about 360 miles from £35 on my 827 (2.7 litre V6).

r216si · Post by **r216si** » Wed Aug 20, 2008 7:51 am

is my milage bad then

richard moss · Post by **richard moss** » Wed Aug 20, 2008 7:41 pm

I've no idea - but if you gave us an MPG figure then we might have a clue.

Miles per £x is a useless measure because it depends upon the fuel costs. The figures I gave, for example, is for LPG purchased at 55p/litre. Converted to MPG that comes out at about 27 MPG and means something useful. However, cost wise, that's the equivalent of about 55 MPG because the fuel's so cheap.

Assuming a typical £1.14 per litre, you were getting about 44 MPG which sounds pretty good.