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Originally Posted by Diesel Virgin
Question: Are the people on here who are getting 55 + average using the turbo at all? What revs do you tend to go up to before changing gear?
1st to 2nd 2krpm
3rd to 4th 1500rpm
5th to 6th 1300rpm once warm
Ideal revs 1000rpm in 5th and 6th
Give it one blast on to a dual carrage way just to clear it out, other than that I barely breath on the accelerator.
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Thanks!
This morning from a cold start with the engine running for about 5 minutes while I de-iced (know I shouldnt really do that) then a trip of 14 miles to work I managed to get up to 35.8mpg on slow stop start motorway traffic. As I had literally refuelled last night and my fuel station is about 0.5 mile from my house its a pretty undiluted result.
I noted too that there is a good 5 mile section that is on a very very very slight gradient and whilst I was only doing 55mpg on cruise only 2 eco lights were on, and at a couple of points, none whatsoever. My return leg should therefore be much better! - he says....
I have also found the trip computer is much slower to update than my previous cars, and also the Civic does actually start from 0 whereas my last car (Audi A3 2.0TDI) started from about 20mpg and went up very quickly.