3008 mpg

[dhep1]

Hi everyone.

Can you tell me what mpg you get?
I bought my 3008 sport diesel auto in June 2010 and was doing 40 mpg local and 45 on a run, I took it back to hull where I bought it the 'fitter' went out in the car and because it showed 48 mpg on the display said I was LYING and if the display says 48 then it is doing 48, I go by the mileage divided by the fuel to fill the car, I had done this 7 times when I took it back and also had the diesel receipts, he still did not believe me and refused to put the car on the computer, so I took it to a dealer in Lancashire he told me the same if it says it is doing it then it is, I contacted Peugeot but they were not interested.
I am now getting 36 local and 40 on the motorway and do not know where to turn, my brother in law gets 47 local from his, the same only the executive model.
Peugeot said it was the government who decide the fuel figures, in this day of £1.32 per litre they should now tell the true figures not what it takes to go round a track with only 1 ltr of fuel and a empty car and a strong wind, to get the 62 mpg on a run I would have to push the piece of c--p.
I cannot have the seat raised because I am too near the steering wheel and many other complaints.

[montycarlo]

Dhep1,

I have only had mine for a couple of weeks, its a 1.6hdi sport with the funny gearbox, the car has now travelled 800 miles, about 300 in my hands so only just started to be "run in" I don't expect fuel consumption to be excellent until later.
Looked at the computer this evening and it is showing 51.8 MPG. Mixture of local traffic and some motorway use, mind you I have a lightish foot, with the price of diesel do you wonder!
Last car was a Citroen C5 2.2hdi auto, on this one I managed to squeeze high 30's and low 40's on a motorway run.
One thing I have found on the 3008 is it changes gear at a lot higher revs then the C5 did. Difference between someone laid back and someone on those happy pills, would love to be able to tweak that gearbox especially between one and two.
Is yours the full auto gearbox or the EGS variety.

Steve

[chopper1192]

Originally Posted by dhep1

Peugeot said it was the government who decide the fuel figures, in this day of £1.32 per litre they should now tell the true figures not what it takes to go round a track with only 1 ltr of fuel and a empty car and a strong wind, to get the 62 mpg on a run I would have to push the piece of c--p.
I cannot have the seat raised because I am too near the steering wheel and many other complaints.

Yes, the EU determine the method used for determining official consumption figures - the manufacturers hate it.

With the seat, and your other complaints, I have zero sympathy - you should of done your homework and had a very thorough test drive before buying it. The clue is in the word "test". It's like buying a sofa and then blaming DFS cos it won't fit in your flat - who's fault is that?

I have more reason to have the 3008 than most after the debacle of my first car, but I did my homework and used a decent dealer who backed me to the hilt over the matter, and the replacement 3008 is so sweeeeet!

[dhep1]

[QUOTE=chopper1192]Yes, the EU determine the method used for determining official consumption figures - the manufacturers hate it.


With the seat, and your other complaints, I have zero sympathy - you should of done your homework and had a very thorough test drive before buying it. The clue is in the word "test". It's like buying a sofa and then blaming DFS cos it won't fit in your flat - who's fault is that?

I have more reason to have the 3008 than most after the debacle of my first car, but I did my homework and used a decent dealer who backed me to the hilt over the matter, and the replacement 3008 is so sweeeeet![/QUTOTE]

As for the seat yes I should have checked but what a useless idea my brother in law ordered 1 just after me when I got mine and he saw how cr-p this is he paid a extra £50 for a flat folding seat, he did not get it they told him that it would be now £500 what a s--t company and typical of peugeot agents, obviously you are WRONG about the manufacturers and the mpg, they love it, if they had told me the real mpg was 36 local 40 on a run, that is what I would have done, I admit new cars do not do what they say but this is way out, the fact is my previous car was lease and had to go back so I got this 'diesel gobbler' I was buying a picasso 1.6 diesel semi auto but citreon canceled all orders on them, my other brother in law bought 1 it says 38 local and 54 on a run and it actually does that!
Obviously your dealer was not part of jct 600.
The problem now is the fact these people are 'fitters' not mechanics as I was, we repaired cars not just fit new parts as these do!

[chopper1192]

They don't love it - they spend oodles developing a car, and then have to tune it to give economy at certain points in the rev band to suit the test and max the figures (and the same for emissions) and this costs them even more money, and often leaves cars with flat spots and holes in the power delivery.

As for the rest, it's only your fault if you bought a car that doesn't suit your needs.

[dhep1]

The problem was I was LIED to about so many things, I was told that it would have leather seats until I proved the salesman wrong, sat nav mpg and several other things they even took me out in a 2 litre when I told them I wanted to test a 1600 my wife commented on the speed and after several mins of questioning he admitted it was a 2000, so as mentioned time was passing my car had to be returned so I had to go 60 miles to a different dealer my 1st mistake was the second dealer was part of the same group, I explained that I needed the mpg more than the other things and to be honest I went on the internet and the folding front seat was not top of my list I cannot understand the point of this seat not folding flat.
But I have to admit I lost my temper when the so called top fitter called me a liar!

[chopper1192]

Well why did you even accept delivery if the car wasn't what you ordered? Should've flung the keys back and gone to a better dealers.

I didn't find the 2 litre much quicker, though the box didn't need stirring so hard. When you own a V-Max any diesel feels so slllloooooooowwwwwwww.

I've also figured out why the MPG you calculate differs from the cars computer. At slow speed, or when idling, the fuel flow is too slow to accurately meter so it doesn't register and the display shows "---". when you speed up, the display comes back. Now, you're obviously still burning fuel even if the computer isn't recording it, and the cumulative effect is that your real MPG is lower than what the car records.

If the car drives properly, isn't smoking, and you still do not get the MPG you would like then there are 2 scenarios - either the use to which you put the vehicle is not conducive to decent economy (short journeys under 5 miles, stop-start, urban etc), or you are not driving it in the best way to acheive economy.

go to another dealer to have the car checked, and if the car is fine you need to have a cold hard look at which of the 2 above scenarios is the cause.

[voiciclive]

re: your low MPG - maybe the hint lies in the two words "auto" and "sport". I purchased an Exclusive 3008, 1.6 HDI, 110 FAP EGC, late last year on the basis of economy, capacity and comfort (and good looks). I had only run it in for a few miles when I took it to Spain. OK, I acknowledge the route down included a few decent straight stretches. We did very little autoroute driving but took a lot of winding rural roads and did a fair amount of mountaineering.
On the way back the rear seats were flat and we were fully loaded i.e. the contraband was level with the back of the front seat. God only knows what we would have done if we had a puncture! That spare was well and truely hidden.
We did not hang around even returning with a heavy load but also I did not engage that "sport" mode. What did we get? 51.3mpg over 3146 miles.
Recently I checked the consumption after 5220 miles, it was 52.2mpg and this was running around Norfolk, not known for its straight autoroutes. On a carefully driven local run, 55.3 mpg was achieved.
When driving, I keep an eye on the running mpg display and use the paddles occasionally to over-ride the "auto" setting. I think I get a good run out of my litre of diesel.

[jmkent]

Its a fact of life.... cars don't ever get the quoted mpg from the brochures... they just aren't measured on 'normal' journeys... we've just got to live with it I'm afraid. My 407 doesn't do what I had hoped, but that isn't anyones fault, it just doesn't like urban/cold driving.

[chopper1192]

I think what most folk fail to appreciate, is that the "combined" figure is just that, ie, and average of the Urban and Extra Urban figures. It is not an actual tested driving cycle figure, simply an average of the other 2.

That said, I get smack on the official combined figure in the 107, and got my 3008 up to 58.7 on the last tankful (average speed 27MPH, so that's awesome for what is essentially an urban average speed), so I've no grumbles.