I have never really looked at the fuel consumption on my motorhomes, I am a relative rookie having only discovered motorhoming 2 years ago and enjoyed several holidays and weekends in the 2001 Hymer Swing with a Fiat 2.8 JTD that I bought to test the water.
I always thought that was a bit heavy on the juice but I put it down to being relatively old technology, so when I bought a low profile 56 reg CI Cipro 55 on a Mercedes Sprinter chassis I was expecting an improvement......!!!
Well we have just had a long weekend in Hertford on the Balls Park Camping and Caravan Club site there, (highly recommended, they are not called the friendly club for nothing :thumb: ), I drove over 450 miles and logged my fuel usage on a full-to-full basis. What a shock I had when I found I had averged 20mpg and that was me driving like a nun for goodness sake!!!
Where do people get these 30mpg figures from? When they are parked up with the engine ticking over perhaps?
20mpg is not really acceptable so I am thinking of cutting my losses and selling the CI and getting another older van now
I always thought that was a bit heavy on the juice but I put it down to being relatively old technology, so when I bought a low profile 56 reg CI Cipro 55 on a Mercedes Sprinter chassis I was expecting an improvement......!!!
Well we have just had a long weekend in Hertford on the Balls Park Camping and Caravan Club site there, (highly recommended, they are not called the friendly club for nothing :thumb: ), I drove over 450 miles and logged my fuel usage on a full-to-full basis. What a shock I had when I found I had averged 20mpg and that was me driving like a nun for goodness sake!!!
Where do people get these 30mpg figures from? When they are parked up with the engine ticking over perhaps?
20mpg is not really acceptable so I am thinking of cutting my losses and selling the CI and getting another older van now