fuel milage

Submitted by savannah on January 20th, 2010
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Hey I love my cube. I bought it in October and for the first few weeks got great fuel milage. Then it slowly started to go down hill. It has now gone from bad to real bad, im getting 10km a litre! Anybody else haveing fuel milage problems? Still love my cube, just not loveing fuel bill.

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Submitted by Unhinged on February 6th, 2010.

Are you accounting for idling time? Remember that you are getting "0" miles to the gallon or an infinite number of litres per 100km when at a standstill. The computer averages this as well. Winter usually equates to lousy fuel economy.

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Submitted by Anonymous on February 6th, 2010.

Yes we have accounted for idling time. Even on highway driving the milage is not good. We drove only 412 km on the highway and had to refill. Maybe my expectations are unrealistic.

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Submitted by Unhinged on February 8th, 2010.

I expect it would get it's best mileage in the 70~90 kph range. Let's face it, in terms of wind resistance, it's not much better than pushing a brick through the air. Having said that, my range on a tank seems to be about 450km of mixed driving (haven't measured it lately though) and I have 17K on mine.

I would bring to the attention of your service manager given that you're not idling a lot and we will assume you're not lighting all the boilers when leaving a traffic light or stop sign. ;)

The problem is that there are so many factors that can affect fuel economy on a 1.8L engine. (ie; weight, wind, amount of throttle, etc.)