Focus Mk2 Mpg

[Jeremyc]

Hey guys

Weigh in here and post your MPG of your MK2 cars. Tips to improve if you know any. Mine is 32mpg.. :o Thats a given though as I drive in rural areas with no speed limit (isle of man) An average 70-80 on most routes and then 30-40 in more built up areas.

[Dee_82]

58 today , almost got to 60 the other week.

if I drive normally I get about 55, in the cold or totally kicking the balls out of it, 45-50

truth is, even if I had a petrol car unless I was driving your exact route in the same weather with the same load, tyres, traffic, driving style an a million other variables, you cant compare what you get with someone else, even distance speed driving is different, motorways tend to be harder on mpg than good A roads, in fact some of the best MPG roads I drive on are A roads, lift and coast!

ive recently installed cruise control, amazing mod, right off the mark I moved up from 55 to 57.

other things to remember is the distance you travel, my best MPG doesn't really kick in until about 7 miles up the road, if the first 7 miles are city driving then you will never have good mpg. unless youhavbe a good long run afterwards

[kpg]

Mines has been rubbish lately. 25 I think was the lowest. After a good lot of driving recently in this nice Warner weather I managed to get it up to 27.7 now. Go me.

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[Hassen]

Darren, are those figures from the onboard readouts? Those are pretty impressive. I have a heavy right foot most of the time :)

You are absolutely right about all the variables. There are way too many permutations to compare.

My own car readouts are 54-58mpg roughly. Using my app after brimming tank everytime I fill up, my average is 48-50mpg. Lowest I ever got was 44mpg and best was 54mpg from the app. I drive similar roads 5 days a week and a 220km round trip over the weekends.

[FocusSmudge]

I did acheive 60 from Plymouth to Portsmouth a few weeks ago. That was at 65mpg with Michelin Energy Saver +'s all round.

Now switched to Dunlop and can't acheive the same figures,

[Dee_82]

Darren, are those figures from the onboard readouts? Those are pretty impressive. I have a heavy right foot most of the time :)

You are absolutely right about all the variables. There are way too many permutations to compare.

My own car readouts are 54-58mpg roughly. Using my app after brimming tank everytime I fill up, my average is 48-50mpg. Lowest I ever got was 44mpg and best was 54mpg from the app. I drive similar roads 5 days a week and a 220km round trip over the weekends.

yeah its on board (avg not instant) so not exactly accurate I drove 250 miles the other week, id just installed CC and for most of the trip the instant read out was in the high 60s-70s (60mph)

but the town driving really kills this engine, even driving like a granny pulls it down a lot. on that trip with a city either side the average was 59.9mpg.

only trouble is my right foot gets a bit heavy so keeping it up in the high 50s is.... tricky :)

[TomsFocus]

This is a bit pointless unless you chose one engine...of course a 2.0 petrol wont even manage half the MPG of a 1.6 diesel...

Mines worked out manually over every tankful so is as accurate as possible, it alternates between 57mpg and 59mpg...no idea how or why it works like that! Trip computer is usually within + or - 2mpg.

[Dee_82]

Even having the same engine doesn't guarantee similar results, there are literally hundreds of variables, the best way to compare your mpg is comparing it against another car you've owned doing the same trip. Then you'll know if your actually on to a winner or not, what I do or anyone else, even in the same spec car, doesn't matter at all

[Incontro]

My current average is at 23.5MPG, mostly town driving. I don't think many people here get lower than that!

[Barry T]

Hi

All cars need to breath has anybody cleaned the filter or do modern day cars not have one, I remember cleaning the engine crankcase breather filter on my mk3 Cortina its a wonder the car ever went. ( the filter was thick with oil, very little air could get through )

I must admit I have never needed to on any of my recent cars. But I do not flog them now.

I have not seen it mentioned in any servicing schedule. It made a big difference to my mk3 Cortina from starting the car, the M.P.G. improved as well.

Barry T

[simcor]

I have been averaging 45-46 MPG each week since owning mine using the brim to brim method. usually shows anything from around that figure up to 50's, but currently now the weather is warmer showing 62.7MPG will be fuelling it on Monday or Tuesday next week so will see what the average is this week with the warmer weather, the OBC suggest I could get nearly 600 miles out of the tank which I have never seen before on it.

[youngy_315]

I have a 2.0 tdci and drive 30 miles each way to work along 50/60mph roads. I don't drive slow but do drive sensibly to traffic and I average 48 mpg worked out manually. On motorway runs to family I get about 52-54 sat about 70mph.

[Jeremyc]

Hi

All cars need to breath has anybody cleaned the filter or do modern day cars not have one, I remember cleaning the engine crankcase breather filter on my mk3 Cortina its a wonder the car ever went. ( the filter was thick with oil, very little air could get through )

I must admit I have never needed to on any of my recent cars. But I do not flog them now.

I have not seen it mentioned in any servicing schedule. It made a big difference to my mk3 Cortina from starting the car, the M.P.G. improved as well.

Barry T

Are you talking about the fuel filter? I may have to try myself

[TomsFocus]

He's not referring to the fuel filter, but they do need regular changes anyway.

As for the crank breather, most aren't filtered in more modern cars in my experience but I can't say whether it is or not on these, usually just a clear pipe right through so all the oil vapour and EGR soot mixes together to form a nice sticky mess in the inlet!

[simcor]

I have been averaging 45-46 MPG each week since owning mine using the brim to brim method. usually shows anything from around that figure up to 50's, but currently now the weather is warmer showing 62.7MPG will be fuelling it on Monday or Tuesday next week so will see what the average is this week with the warmer weather, the OBC suggest I could get nearly 600 miles out of the tank which I have never seen before on it.

Filled up today instead and actual was 52.3MPG so a definite improvement than I was getting now the weather has warmed up a fair bit.

So at an average of 52MPG a range of around 600 miles would be acheivable but in the colder weather is it more like 450-500 max.

That is for me, my driving style routes and geographic location too.

[Barry T]

Hi Tom,

What prevents the sticky mess getting into the engine ?. do you think it could be filtered. I would imagine it would damage the engine if the sticky mess got into it. The filter was incorporated into the cylinder head cover on the mk3 Cortina and was difficult to get to. it took me almost a day to clean it, as I remember it was made up of wire mesh tightly wound together in random circles, which allowed only air and fine particles of oil vapour through. On my car it was a solid mess of thick oil, almost like grease , I used paint thinners and petrol to remove it. I then left it for 1/2 day for all the diluted vapours to evaporate. The difference in the car was remarkable I passed the tip onto a friend who bought and sold cars for a living, I think very few people were aware there was a filter in the mk3 Cortina.

I think there will be some means on new cars to do the same.

Barry T

[mikepreece]

Ive got a 1.6 diesel and get about 35 round town and maybe 45 on motorways, think there is something wrong there, maybe my DPF is not clear?

[Jon Bhoy]

Blimey,i am almost suicidal looking at these figures !!!! I was getting an average of 27.5 mpg......I reset it the other day for a trip down the motorway about 30 miles to the girlfriends and decided to drive carefully and at one point the average slowly rose to 35 mpg! When it did I felt like I had almost gone all green and hippyish,so had to floor it back home ;-)

Car has stalled at idle a couple of times and a very slight rough idle so wondering if I have a vacuum leak somewhere making it run a bit rich hence the awful mpg,or maybe just need to take the lead insoles out of my trainers.

Never fancied a diesel,but have to say this thread has made me jealous of all the Diesel driving members of the forum.

[TomsFocus]

Diesel is alright for MPG and tax (£30 a year on the 1.6 TDCI after 2007 lol) but the bill for DPFs, frequent servicing with more expensive parts and the bill when the DPF breaks the turbo as well wipes out any savings you made lol.

[Dee_82]

Esp since newer petrol ecoboost engines aren't that much less in terms of mpg, different in the days of sub 30mpg but now we can get plus 40 odd its really not worth it....still, I'd miss that turbo :)

[sonic113]

I love the petrol engines and I think the new ecoboost are a great design in terms of moving forward with car technology.

I get about 42 -48 on my petrol focus weekly. I drive sensible enough and never over 3000 revs on the counter unless I'm booting on lol! I do always try to keep the engine in top form as I do with all our cars as I think if the engine is maintained to bits best you will get the best from it. As stated before though it depends on a lot of factors and how people drive ect

The father in law always had desiel and had issues and big bills so i talked him into getting a petrol on his last upgrade (2010cmax) and he has had 3 years of no issue driving which he is over the moon about.

He still thibjsbhebis spending around the same amount on fuel but with out the problems so therefore for him he is saving in a way.

I would not let tax price or mpg be a selling point as petrol vs diesel is concerned but I would look at your own personal needs and go from there.

[IINexusII]

67.2MPG was the best i got in my car, from Cheltenham to East London

Now i average 45-50MPG on my 70 mile daily commute to kent and back

[UnSol]

Hello All. Just to continue this topic on MPG on the Mk 2 Focus, my 2006 2.0 petrol automatic (now at 60,000) generally returns around 33 MPG. Do a few short journeys, but most are around 30 or 40 mile round trips, generally non-motorway. I'm fairly light on the throttle, which helps with MPG of course...!! Only had the car just over 6 months, and was initially a bit concerned that the MPG might not be too brilliant, but so far I'm very impressed, and can't grumble.....!!

I've understood that automatics from around this period onwards are better on the MPG than older autos. We used to run a 1999 1.4 Corsa automatic that returned a similar 33 MPG..!!

Be interested to hear from other Focus 2.0 petrol automatic owners about their MPG..!!

[simcor]

Ive got a 1.6 diesel and get about 35 round town and maybe 45 on motorways, think there is something wrong there, maybe my DPF is not clear?

Sounds about right especially if you do a lot of short journeys on a cold engine or a lot of stop start driving or have a heavy right foot.

For me to get 52MPG that is travelling to work 5 days a week without any other running around really so no short journeys. it's also 20 miles a day down the motorway at a max 70MPH after I am out of the 50MPH roadworks section, then coming home via a different rout dual carriageway and A/B roads.

I suspect the increase is actually most likely due to not driving short distances in the car.

[TomsFocus]

Hi Tom,

What prevents the sticky mess getting into the engine ?. do you think it could be filtered. I would imagine it would damage the engine if the sticky mess got into it. The filter was incorporated into the cylinder head cover on the mk3 Cortina and was difficult to get to. it took me almost a day to clean it, as I remember it was made up of wire mesh tightly wound together in random circles, which allowed only air and fine particles of oil vapour through. On my car it was a solid mess of thick oil, almost like grease , I used paint thinners and petrol to remove it. I then left it for 1/2 day for all the diluted vapours to evaporate. The difference in the car was remarkable I passed the tip onto a friend who bought and sold cars for a living, I think very few people were aware there was a filter in the mk3 Cortina.

I think there will be some means on new cars to do the same.

Barry T

Hi Barry,

It doesn't damage the engine itself as anything that gets into the cylinders just gets burnt anyway. But it does clog up the manifold, head intact tract and the EGR valve on diesels. You'll also find boost pipes are full of the oil from the breather pipes which can be annoying but can also help locate leaks. It doesn't make a noticeble difference removing this mess from the manifold in my experience. I have had a VW TDI and a Peugeot HDi, both of which modified and remapped, both around 130k miles so manifolds with this stuff at a few mm thick. I spent ages cleaning it all out and it made no noticeable difference at all!! It may make a difference with an NA engine, but it seems the boost supplied by the turbo makes this restriction insignificant on charged cars.

I would guess they stopped filtering the breather pipes to reduce the restriction in the oil system, that would cause bigger issues than some oil going through the inlet.