Reading some of the posts lately by people casually dropping things about the car like being able to disable the RAID by holding the switch down, checking the oil level electronically (a gem) and pulling the seat base forward, I thought there may be some other useful nuggets that all owners may not know about, so here is the place to spill all, however trivail you may think it is. Might turn into a very useful thread. I'll start;
By resetting the mpg computer on-the-fly on the way up to the Lakes recently I calculated that the best fuel economy was achieved when driving at around 57mph (in 5th gear obviously), saw it go as high as 48mpg! This was using Shell V-Power on straight, flat sections at a negligable height above sea-level, but I DO have a re-map, so a standard car may be very slightly better (or worse but I doubt it) than this. At 70 mph, 43mpg is easily achievable and it drops dramatically to about 27mpg at 100mph! Above this the experiment was hindered by loud words from the passenger seat.
By resetting the mpg computer on-the-fly on the way up to the Lakes recently I calculated that the best fuel economy was achieved when driving at around 57mph (in 5th gear obviously), saw it go as high as 48mpg! This was using Shell V-Power on straight, flat sections at a negligable height above sea-level, but I DO have a re-map, so a standard car may be very slightly better (or worse but I doubt it) than this. At 70 mph, 43mpg is easily achievable and it drops dramatically to about 27mpg at 100mph! Above this the experiment was hindered by loud words from the passenger seat.
