RAT8OY

As above,

I do around 30k business miles a year around London and therefore treated myself to a 56 plate Ford Fiesta Zetec S TDCI. The car has 25k on the clock and as far as I am aware is in fine fettle.

The book quotes 72mpg as possible, but I never for a second thought I would achieve this and would be over the moon with 60mpg. Well all I can say is how disapointed I am. If I drive it like a complete snail with no air con on I can just squeeze it to 54mpg if I put my boot in (and I dont mean really thrashing it just enjoying the torque) it drops to 41!!

My ST TDCI Mondeo does 48-50 and that gets booted everywhere it goes!

I bought it from a Ford main dealer and have a month of warrenty left. Do you think I should ask for it to be checked over, I changed the fuel filter myself and this has made no difference!

How do other people get on with them? Two friends reckon theirs are always around the 60-65mpg mark, if driven sensibly.

Len

iTrader: (2)

My wife has a TDCI & averages around 44mpg around town, but she always stuck in rush hour traffic, we have owned the car from new., it has 30,000 on the clock now.

gtir1281

check this site out

Welcome to the Real Life Fuel Economy Register.

This springs from widespread dissatisfaction with the official EC fuel economy figures which many drivers find to be unattainable and generally misleading.

The Real Life Fuel Economy Register enables you to register the fuel economy you are actually getting against your make and model of car, its engine and type of transmission.

Every time you enter an average consumption figure against your car, the overall average self-adjusts to reflect it. This can then be directly compared to the claimed EC figure.

Different types of driving and usage and the experience of thousands of drivers all average out to give an overall figure that you can reasonably expect to achieve.



http://www.honestjohn.co.uk/realmpg/

BRAMMER

iTrader: (23)

Different car but my golf does up to 40mpg around town and up to around 45 on longer journeys, 50 M-way but some say these do up to 60 round town which isn't correct

If i put my foot down in mine i can get it to low 20's

Tottie xr2

iTrader: (1)

My mate has a 56 plate focus 1.6 tdci 70,000 miles an is doing 54.6 mpg average.

Derby_Gav

I went to Skegness and back in my ex's zetec s tdci. Some driving round town, bit of foot down and some country lanes. I managed 73mpg average over 210 miles.

Gavin.