£40 quid full tank and i get 330 miles ? 1.2 ibiza

Dillan G

Active Member
Aug 9, 2009
108
0
Sittingbourne Kent
Hi people just wanted to see how many miles i could get on my seat ibiza 1.2,
A full tank cost me 40 pounds and ding mototrway driving as well as city driving and i have done 330 miles and the red light is on is that good ?

How many miles do you think i can get when the red light shows, as it always comes on at a 1/4 of a tank :s

Thanx
 

stezo2k

Anjuna Monkey
Mar 15, 2008
2,804
1
Dudley
yeah 330 miles is pretty decent for the 1.2, i used to average 300 but now i average 350 since servicing. i have seen somebody get 400 out of the 1.2, not sure how though :)
 

Nath_123ni

Cruising is not a crime!
Oct 13, 2009
136
0
Newtownabbey
Hi people just wanted to see how many miles i could get on my seat ibiza 1.2,
A full tank cost me 40 pounds and ding mototrway driving as well as city driving and i have done 330 miles and the red light is on is that good ?

How many miles do you think i can get when the red light shows, as it always comes on at a 1/4 of a tank :s

Thanx

I put £20 in my 1.2 and id get about 110 miles before light comes on
 

Dillan G

Active Member
Aug 9, 2009
108
0
Sittingbourne Kent
Yeah i think when i service mine i can get more miles mabey .. but im happy with that :)

Alex17 your leon is so nice .. please dont tell me thats your first car ... if it is its very nice i want one of them next
 

andycupra

status subject to change
why not talk in litres rather than money then we can have a more realistic view of what you are using / mpg..

lets assume you are paying 106.9 per litre..
thats 37.418 litres
and 8.232 gallons.

so 330 miles for £40 of fuel gives you 40.09 mpg. which is pretty good. not fantastic, you could certainly get more, but we dont really know what sort of driving you do, town driving kills mpg.
 

Armitageshanks

Active Member
Feb 20, 2007
143
0
yep lets talk in litres! i always put 40 litres of deisel in my pd100 and run it 10 miles or so in the red zone and get around 370-380 miles of london stop/ start driving. I put an uncomfortable 36 psi in my low profile tyres to milk the economy as much as possible tho.
 

tooly1

1.2 power !
Oct 17, 2009
116
0
Nottingham
id be pretty happy with any where between 300- 350 mpg these cars seem more appealing and £40 to fill the tank cant be moaned at ! and alex 17's leon is actually stunning!
 

kidinspace

Service Desk Specialist
Dec 3, 2008
1,227
1
Glasgow, Scotland
www.flickr.com
I usually get about the 400 mark to a tank with my 1.2, filled up today and it wasn't even empty and I'd done 412... I usually run for about a day after the light and the BEEEEP [:@] comes on...

Click my sig for the numbers...

.G.
 

rocky2008

Buy Cheap Buy Twice!
Nov 16, 2008
1,029
1
North-east
why not talk in litres rather than money then we can have a more realistic view of what you are using / mpg..

lets assume you are paying 106.9 per litre..
thats 37.418 litres
and 8.232 gallons.

so 330 miles for £40 of fuel gives you 40.09 mpg. which is pretty good. not fantastic, you could certainly get more, but we dont really know what sort of driving you do, town driving kills mpg.

from reading that i assume you know a formula for working out how many MPG your car gets, i want to work out how many miles per gallon i am getting but dont know a forumula, could you tell me it please :) cheers.
 

andycupra

status subject to change
from reading that i assume you know a formula for working out how many MPG your car gets, i want to work out how many miles per gallon i am getting but dont know a forumula, could you tell me it please :) cheers.

no problem.

This is what you do.
Firstly you need to fill the tank and reset the trip to record miles covered while you use this tankful.
Then simply use the car until you need to fill the tank again. Fill it up to the same point as before, (ie full).
Note the litres used to fill the tank and miles covered.

Then you can work out the mpg.

Many people use 4.5 litres = 1 gallon. But i use 5 litres = 1.1 gallons as this is slightly more accurate and im my head its easier to work out the gallons.

lets use an example of 300 miles covered and 40 litres used:

Take the number of litres used to fill the tank, divide it by 5 and multiply by 1.1 to convert litres into gallons.
Eg 40 divided by 5 is 8. Multiplied by 1.1 is 8.8 gallons.

Then simply take the miles covered and divide by the number of gallons.
Eg 300 miles covered, divided by 8.8 gallons is 34.1 mpg. (to 1dp)

or in short:
(40/5)*1.1=8.8
300/8.8 = 34.091 (or 34.1) :)


the alternative is:
40/4.5= 8.889
300/8.889 = 33.750 you can see this gives a slightly different amount as the litres to gallon conversion is not as accurate. (but shorter).
 
Last edited:

rocky2008

Buy Cheap Buy Twice!
Nov 16, 2008
1,029
1
North-east
no problem.

This is what you do.
Firstly you need to fill the tank and reset the trip to record miles covered.
Then simply use the car until you fill the tank. Note the litres used to fill the tank and miles covered.

Then you can work out the mpg.

many people use 4.5 litres = 1 gallon. But i use 5 litres = 1.1 gallons as this is slightly more accurate.

lets use an example of 300 miles covered and 40 litres used:

Take the number of litres used to fill the tank, divide it by 5 and multiply by 1.1 to convert litres into gallons.
Eg 40 divided by 5 is 8. Multiplied by 1.1 is 8.8 gallons.

Then simply take the miles covered and divide by the number of gallons.
Eg 300 miles covered, divided by 8.8 gallons is 34.1 mpg. (to 1dp)

or in short:
(40/8)*1.1=8.8
300/8.8 = 34.0909091 (or 34.1) :)


spot on mate! thanks alot, im not the best at maths but you explained that superbly! :D
 

britishsligean

Active Member
Dec 23, 2014
341
0
Ireland
My 1.2 52 gets me roughly over 100 miles on 1/4 of a tank so I get about 300 miles before the light comes on, but I feel the tank sensor is off as it comes on when I hit 1/4 tank
 
Nimbus hosting - Based solely in the UK.