Fuel Consumption

Peugeot Boxer based Autoquest  5.75m long with luton.

On a tour of Yorkshire with four adults and a dog, fully booted and suited including water and tyres at a comfortable riding pressure, up hill and down dale, returned a healthy 29.6mpg on a round trip of 650 miles...

I think so as well, weight also has a lot to do with it as well. My last motorhome a 3.8 ton 7.5 meter Hi-line Autotrail Mohican on a Mercedes Sprinter chassis used to average about 24 m.p.g. I'm lucky if I get 20 m.p.g. out of my 6.5 ton 8 meter RS on an Iveco chassis with a 3 litre Fiat engine. Typical average is 19.6m.p.g. but on mountainous roads it can easily drop below this. Even these figures are better than I used to get out of one of my tow cars.

peedee

ive had trips in my earlier Boleros where i 'got 32+' mpg...but other, less ecoonomical journeys would always bring the long term average back down....to around 28 ish...

the latest two 150bhp vans have been around 26-28, again depending on speed on autoroute etc...

 slow, quiet trips (not too many roundabouts) might see this van back towards 29+ but that would be rare...27 is a fair reflection of the 6500 miles this year...

anyone getting over 30 long term average is doing pretty well...

32 is really good (small light van, slower speeds?)

36 is pretty darn good and i wouldnt want to be behind you.....

Are these figures being worked out on Fuel put in and Miles traveled or what the dashboard is telling you.?

If you base it on the vehicles on board computer then I wouldn't believe to be factual.

I have used both methods and generally found both to be pretty much with 1 m.p.g. of each other.

peedee

I've had five motorhomes in 18 years and each gave me just over 27mpg.

My current one [Aclass dynamics of a brick] has averaged 29mph over 27,000 miles in 4 years. Whether it is the Comfortmatic or the 130 engine or my more relaxed style of driving now I'm retired I don't know. It may be simply because more of our trips avoid the Pennines and the motorways. On a run south through Cheshire and Shropshire I will get into the 30s and over 30mpg was regular when we toured the Continent. Our dash reading is, like peedee finds, about 1mpg out - the Fiat figure is consistently lower - measured over a thousand miles or so at a time.

I wonder whether CY's figures will get marginally worse as he gets used to the van. I'd be pleased with his current figure. 

I measured actual fuel used against mileage for the first couple of thousand miles and found the computer to be comparable.  As the computer is taking an average over a long period I would expect it to be accurate.  Don't bother now; nothing is going to change the consumption by much unless I slow down significantly and as we all know (because the government has told us) going too slow on the motorway is DANGEROUS!

My  figures  ( as  above )  are  calculated  from  TOTAL  FUEL  & TOTAL  MILES  COVERED  over  the  time  I  have  owned  the  'van

All  these  are  logged  in  my  "Little  Blue  Notebook"  when  filling  up.

The  one  point  made  by  some  is  the  speed / acceleration    --  I  don't  reach  the  speed  limit  on  M-ways,  I  treat  the  trips  out  as  a  part  of  the  leisure  experience  and  so  keep  to  the    lorry  limits  normally.

Over 5 years of motorhome touring all over the UK and France we generally averaged between 28 to 30 mpg. 

I was happy with that. 

K

I'm getting 28.2 mpg from my 2.0 litre 2017 Bailey Autograph II, while towing a Toyota Aygo on an A Frame, (sorry for using the 'A' word). I'm pleased with that, I drive normally not frugally, but stick to speed limits. Hoping to get more mpg once the engine is bedded in, that's if diesels aren't banned by then.