RS TUNER fuel economy?

[Sam415]

Has anyone with the RS Tuner experienced an improvement in fuel economy when driven with a light foot of course?

I'm quite baffled as I seem to get much lower MPG with my Trophy than I ever did with my previous 182 full fat, I thought it would be the other way round seeing as the Trophy is lighter...maybe it's just because each engine is so different...??

 

[T5PHY]

^^^????

T'was my understanding that the engine is an identical unit to that int the 182? Please feel free to correct me though.

 

[hoolio]

Yeah just a normal 182. What milage are you actually getting?

 

[Cue]

mine ranges dramatically, normally it's around the 32mpg but the last week has seen me on 41mpg!!!! seeing if i can make the magical 400 miles per tank again.... last time i tried it i ran out of fuel.

 

[Destined for Victory]

im gettign 37mpg

 

[scott]

mine ranges dramatically, normally it's around the 32mpg but the last week has seen me on 41mpg!!!! seeing if i can make the magical 400 miles per tank again.... last time i tried it i ran out of fuel.

I get about 33.8mpg at the moment, door to door.
Motorways ive had it up to a steady 49.5mpg ish.
As for the magical 400miles, (£42 to fill it up at the time), i reached this when i drove back after picking the car up from allvehicles to Newcastle, think it was about 375miles back then i drove about another 30miles once i got back to newcastle. Quite good really considering it cost me £55 to get to Steves in my 306 GTI 6.

 

[Cue]

scott are you running a RS Tuner set-up form hank?

 

[Sam415]

T5phy, the engines are identical but they vary considerably in the amount of power they produce.

I normally get about 31mpg when driving 'normally' vs 36mpg in my 182 FF. On the motorway I get about 35mpg in the trophy whereas the 182FF delivered 39/40mpg+.

So, is the summary that the RS Tuner makes bugger all difference to fuel economy? Hope not as I'm looking for a good excuse to buy one lol.

 

[Not a Diesel]

When I bough my Wife a 182 FF we drove back 100 miles in convoy & I reset the MPG guage in both cars.

When we got home the were both on 41 MPG.

By convoy I mean I hammered it coming out of every roundabout then drifted back to 60 to let her catch up.

 

[scott]

scott are you running a RS Tuner set-up form hank?

Im running RSTuner now but when i got the 400+ miles it was the standard map.