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Old 03-16-2019, 07:05 PM   #37 (permalink)
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The Mistress - '88 Bmw 320i Touring SE
Team m8
Last 3: 27.17 mpg (US)

Germany Beadle - '91 Mercedes 300td (estate, N/A)
90 day: 24.63 mpg (US)

The Bloodylingo - '05 Citroen Berlingo Multispace Desire
90 day: 39.77 mpg (US)

Shanner Scaab - '03 Saab 9-5 estate Vector
90 day: 26.19 mpg (US)

Clio 182 - '05 Renault Clio RS 182 182
90 day: 31.73 mpg (US)
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The first tank of the roadtrip has been finished, and the next one should be done shortly.

The first tank saw 467.6 miles completed for 65L of zero cost WVO. A new best mpg of 27.23 (32.7imp)

However, it was no without incident!

As Hot Chocolate would say

"It started with an FTP" (Failure To Proceed = failure to start)

I had to jump through Merc with the Clio. I suspect the battery is on its last legs.

Down to Tebay ( a motorway service station), no bother.

Then it threw a low coolant light as we pulled in to park.

We scranned then found something for free at Tebay : Water


You can see the 3 part cap that shouldn't be 3 parts here



A new one has been ordered from Mercedes Benz (£8.50/$11.50) and will be fitted asap.

Switching on the heater caused the light to come back on, so e added a litre of coolant, and it remained off. We think it didn't bleed properly when the thermostat was replaced.

We arrived in to Wales, and set to work on the other car..



Much as done on the Golf, but we ran short on time and had to do a late night dash back home (arriving back at 3.05am on Saturday morning)

Here's the car getting the last of the WVO we had carried before the final stint up the road.




It does do sustained highish speed cruising with aplomb, and is a most comfortable mile muncher despite nearly 320K on the clock.
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US MPG for my Renault Clio 182


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