ChillyWilly

I've a petrol 1.6 S which I've had a couple of weeks. It's 8 months old and has only done 2000 miles.

It's the short journeys which are killing my mpg. I only travel 3 miles to work and can see the readout dropping for the first 1.5miles before it stabilises then edges up. I'm only getting 28mpg on the trip meter.

After a reset I did a run the weekend before last which was a steady 55 miles in some of the scenic bits of Derbyshire followed by returning on the M1 at 80-85mph. This returned 40mpg.

This weekend I did another steady run on just A and B-roads and got 46mpg which I'm happier about. I'll do real figures when I fill up next.

Thanks for the replies, and I totally appreciate the comment that I bought what I saw. I'm annoyed with myself that I ignored the little voice in my head when I viewed the car and that I didn't take the advert along with me.

Anyway, it got to nearly 5pm without a call, but while I was winding myself up for another rant and a demand for my deposit back, the phone rang and it was the salesman. Before he could start I told him what I thought about the customer service there. He was very apologetic saying it's not what they're about blah blah.

Bottom line is they've still not tracked down the missing alloys, but are putting some on from another car and will recalibrate the engine with them on which apparently they have to do. I told him that I thought I was due some recompense for the way I've been messed about, like a full tank of fuel and a free service. He phoned back after speaking to the sales manager and said OK. He claims they're making a branch loss of £600 on the car now, but don't want unhappy customers blah blah (again). Oh, apparently the sales manager didn't phone back because he forgot he was off for 4 days, as you do.

I'm going to collect it tomorrow.