How to make my 1.1 fuel efficient

27th January 2014, 16:34

I've got a 1.1 Saxo and I know that the engines not big and fuel wont last long but I'm wondering if I make my Saxo more fuel efficient and if so, how? ATM I'm putting in £20 which fills up half a tank and that lasts me 1 week and a bit if I'm driving around a lot. Cheers guys

27th January 2014, 16:36

i put £20 every 2 days nearly in my VTR , but i do alot of miles. £20 a week sounds amazing to me lol

27th January 2014, 16:37

i put £10 in my vtr it does about 60-70 miles and i drive it hard all the time.

27th January 2014, 16:43

Wow. What engine size is a VTR? I worked out that £20 does around 60 miles because I went to Nottingham and it's about 50 miles there and back and that cost me 35 or 40 quid, I cant remember.

27th January 2014, 16:43

its a 1.6l

27th January 2014, 16:45

i would think to be more fuel efficient make sure there is no extra weight in the car and keep the revs down, if your on the motorway doing 60mph make sure your in 5th not 3rd, but i would think that is common sense.

27th January 2014, 16:47

Well £10 is right good! how many miles is GRUMGTI doing every 2 days haha

27th January 2014, 16:48

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Originally Posted by ashj22

i would think to be more fuel efficient make sure there is no extra weight in the car and keep the revs down, if your on the motorway doing 60mph make sure your in 5th not 3rd, but i would think that is common sense.

Not meaning to sound blunt but yeah I know about all that, I'm just wanting to make a few performance upgrades to make my fuel consumption a bit lower. I feel like my cars robbing me of my own money.

27th January 2014, 16:50

getting a car re mapped can be make the car more fuel efficient, but it really does not seem worth it on a 1.1.

27th January 2014, 16:50

I also read that a supercharger is meant to lower fuel consumption and increase horsepower but my brother fitted one and said it consumed too much fuel

27th January 2014, 17:07

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Well £10 is right good! how many miles is GRUMGTI doing every 2 days haha

i do roughly 1000 miles a month. but its my1st car so im driving all the time for the sake of it lol, the novelty will soon ware off, but in all fairness its a 50mile round trip so see familly and close freinds and i do that pritty much daily sometimes more than once a day lol.

27th January 2014, 17:10

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Originally Posted by kieran_w

Wow. What engine size is a VTR? I worked out that £20 does around 60 miles because I went to Nottingham and it's about 50 miles there and back and that cost me 35 or 40 quid, I cant remember.

Something's not right if your getting 60 miles to £20!
How hard do you drive haha

My vts gets 100/110 to £20 and that's all town driving

27th January 2014, 17:16

20 a week on fuel? I wish!

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27th January 2014, 17:41

Cheep that lad!!

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27th January 2014, 17:55

£20 a week is good mate so I wouldn't worry.

27th January 2014, 18:01

Servicing at correct intervals makes a difference to fuel economy,as does correct tyre pressures.

27th January 2014, 18:45

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Originally Posted by Saxovch22

Something's not right if your getting 60 miles to £20!
How hard do you drive haha

My vts gets 100/110 to £20 and that's all town driving

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Originally Posted by Ryancoyle

£20 a week is good mate so I wouldn't worry.

Ahhhhh! Mixed emotions :/ I suppose a 1.1L doing £20 a week is equivalent to 1.6L doing £10 a week. I don't know! I've heard people say its not worth doing up a 1.1 but I'm going to have the car for at least 2 years so I want to make it worth it.

27th January 2014, 18:53

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Originally Posted by kieran_w

Wow. What engine size is a VTR? I worked out that £20 does around 60 miles because I went to Nottingham and it's about 50 miles there and back and that cost me 35 or 40 quid, I cant remember.

i used to do 190 to £20 quid in my 1.1 and it started using more and more so had a look around and my fuel filter was leaking not much but enough so maybe have a look at that?

27th January 2014, 19:08

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Originally Posted by watson123

i used to do 190 to £20 quid in my 1.1 and it started using more and more so had a look around and my fuel filter was leaking not much but enough so maybe have a look at that?

Thanks for the advice, ATM it's in for an oil leak so will look at it in a few days. I'm beginning to think that the fuel gauge is a bit off because my car will last a really long time running on virtually thin air, the fuel gauge will have the light on and it will be on empty but like I said it will last a few days then I get scared and give in to filling up lol

27th January 2014, 19:27

£20 a week,lucky git

27th January 2014, 19:30

I can put £50 a week in mine and do about 280 miles lol. If you want more feul economy then give it a good service

27th January 2014, 19:45

I been thinking about petrol injectors or whatever it is to clean inside (im not really sure what it is) but thats meant to be more efficient isnt it?

27th January 2014, 20:00

Lovely hard tyre pressures, with Grade A tyre efficiency.
Lay you aerial flat/remove it
remove as much weight as you can spare (seats, radios, spare tyres, no boot rubbish etc)
Gentle driving.
If you bang it up to the redline through gears you'll sap your petrol.
3.2k rpm is the sweetspot.

27th January 2014, 20:04

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Originally Posted by kieran_w

Wow. What engine size is a VTR? I worked out that £20 does around 60 miles because I went to Nottingham and it's about 50 miles there and back and that cost me 35 or 40 quid, I cant remember.

Your car must be fucked!! Should be doing way more than that.
Christ! Give it a service, check your tyre pressures and remove and dead weight you don't need to be carrying around.

27th January 2014, 20:05

my dogshit civic averages about 26mpg I fill up around 70 a week should be well happy with 20 quid

27th January 2014, 20:11

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Originally Posted by kieran_w

Wow. What engine size is a VTR? I worked out that £20 does around 60 miles because I went to Nottingham and it's about 50 miles there and back and that cost me 35 or 40 quid, I cant remember.

Just to confirm myself, I meant 50 miles there and 50 miles back so 100 miles in total give or take a few.

28th January 2014, 09:44

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Originally Posted by Dany4494

my dogshit civic averages about 26mpg I fill up around 70 a week should be well happy with 20 quid

thats fucking shocking from a cooking model civic, the ep3 type R gets better than that!

28th January 2014, 09:50

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Originally Posted by Gandi699

thats fucking shocking from a cooking model civic, the ep3 type R gets better than that!

yeah tell me about it cant wait to get rid of the fucker.

28th January 2014, 09:53

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Originally Posted by Dany4494

yeah tell me about it cant wait to get rid of the fucker.

Weren't you asking close to £3k? Not surprised you still have it!

28th January 2014, 09:58

lol 3k for an ep2, no wonder it won't shift.

The 1.1 is efficient. Service it properly and it will remain efficient. If you fancy more efficiency, avoid budget tyres. Besides, first line in the stickies: http://www.saxperience.com/forum/showthread.php?t=59943

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Originally Posted by kieran_w

Wow. What engine size is a VTR? I worked out that £20 does around 60 miles because I went to Nottingham and it's about 50 miles there and back and that cost me 35 or 40 quid, I cant remember.

I can't speak miles per quid, as actual mpg is more accurate. Now £20 for 50 miles smells like a heavy right foot.:correction: you said 100 miles, that isn't too impressive either unless you pay 2+ quid per liter.

28th January 2014, 10:20

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Originally Posted by Muel

Weren't you asking close to £3k? Not surprised you still have it!

I was asking 1900 but its short on mot so ill probably get it a 12 month ticket and bang it on ebay or px to a dealer maybe, its a nice car to be in and comfy cheap insurance but its an very underpowered car.

28th January 2014, 14:43

You need to work out your miles per gallon to see how good or bad it is.

When you fill up your car do it to the max, to say the second cut out of the pump. When you get back in reset the miles counter and then next time you fill up record how many miles you did and how much fuel in litres you put in.
Rest the counter again and repeat.

Bang it all in an excel spreadsheet make a nice graph and you can see how it changes over the year.

My 97 saxo 1.4i does about 35/Mpg on average, min is about 30 and max 40 when i was driving 15 miles each way to work.

28th January 2014, 17:41

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Originally Posted by Kyouken

You need to work out your miles per gallon to see how good or bad it is.

When you fill up your car do it to the max, to say the second cut out of the pump. When you get back in reset the miles counter and then next time you fill up record how many miles you did and how much fuel in litres you put in.

Rest the counter again and repeat.

Bang it all in an excel spreadsheet make a nice graph and you can see how it changes over the year.

My 97 saxo 1.4i does about 35/Mpg on average, min is about 30 and max 40 when i was driving 15 miles each way to work.

Put it in excel and a graph?!? Couldn't be arsed with that!

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29th January 2014, 21:51

I put 40 a week in my 1.1 so I'd be happy with twenty as you I don't get double the miles, have decent tyres with correct air, don't rev too hard, don't accelerate and brake harsh, keep it serviced and just look after it if you want better economy I do everything apart from harsh accelerating and high revs :/ but I'm still happy with 40 because it does give okay power for a 1.1

29th January 2014, 21:54

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Originally Posted by Quinny1995

I put 40 a week in my 1.1 so I'd be happy with twenty as you I don't get double the miles, have decent tyres with correct air, don't rev too hard, don't accelerate and brake harsh, keep it serviced and just look after it if you want better economy I do everything apart from harsh accelerating and high revs :/ but I'm still happy with 40 because it does give okay power for a 1.1

why the hell do you drive a saxo 1.1 if you have an audi a3 s-line?

29th January 2014, 22:08

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Originally Posted by Muel

why the hell do you drive a saxo 1.1 if you have an audi a3 s-line?

I wondered this,a 1.1 saxo is a weekly shopping car nothing else.

30th January 2014, 20:45

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Originally Posted by Manu

The 1.1 is efficient. Service it properly and it will remain efficient. If you fancy more efficiency, avoid budget tyres. Besides, first line in the stickies: http://www.saxperience.com/forum/showthread.php?t=59943

I did read the sticky. Even though its thorough and in-depth it, it seemed like it wasn't too specific for a 1.1

30th January 2014, 21:07

Because I'm on a shit wage so can't afford to run my audi as much as I will be able too soon so that's my weekend car

6th February 2014, 09:05

Replace air filter
Change oil and filter
Check tyre pressure - mine's 35
30 mph you should be fine in 4th gear, maybe even 5th but not up hill
Redex is good for cleaning the fuel system
I had a loss of power and worse mpg lately but fixed with a spark plug change and don't boot it everywhere!