Merc ce 200 manual mpg

[Sinky]

Help please I just done 83.3km and used 9.41 litres

At the currant exchange rate 1.23 euro to the £
It works out at approx £10.50 to do approx 52 miles

So say about 25miles to the gallon
A bit on motorway and town driving.

Is that about right for a Merc w124 2lt petrol manual do you think
thanks

[TurboDieselWeasel]

How did you drive it? 'Normal' and steady, or with a heavy foot? For normal driving that sounds like too much. But I'm totaly clueless about the modern W124 M111 engines... Oxygen sensor? A temperature sensor? Loom of doom?

[jrevillug]

That's 51.76 miles, and 2.06 Gallons = 25.1mpg.

I'm going to guess that most, if not all, of the journeys were short - under 10 miles - as you've only done 50 miles in total, so it's probably not unreasonable. Bear in mind that the 2.0 will be working quite hard on the motorway.

[Sinky]

Yeah!! spot on short journeys not driven hard and it certainly (2lt) has to work hard on the motorway. m111 pretty gutless really pulling a w124
I don't think it suffers from the loom of doom. Does it?

[Brian Damaged]

How short are your journeys? if it's mainly town driving, that's probably about right, urban driving will cost you whatever you drive. My wife's 06-plated 1400 Fiesta only does about 28mpg on short journeys.

My W124 is a '94 E200 auto, I do a 36 mile per day commute on a mix of motorway/A-road and it's averaging 36mpg. I've checked and double-checked it and it's 100% accurate. Worst I've had is 34, best 38. On a long journey sitting at 60-65 with the cruise control on it does just over 40mpg. Having said that I do very little town driving with it.

As far as I know it's the six-cylinder models which suffer most from engine bay wiring loom troubles.

[ChasR]

Some big engined cars do surprise you on MPG.

A sheddy Ovlov 740 2.3i Auto I owned did 35MPG average loaded up on a 40 mile commute, with a more modern injected 2.0 before it doing 30MPG average.

The strange one was the troublesome Mondeo V6 we owned. With a slushmatic 'box and not being particularly careful with nearly pure town driving it used to average 24MPG.

In your case for short journeys I would expect it to be better, but not by alot.

[tonycocacola]

my '95 E220 auto does ok too.
worst is around 30, and the best on a motorway run to benzboys hood was 42.
i can handle that.

[froggy]

Air flow meters are prone to go a but senile with age on these , any flat spots or hesitation when driving ?

[Sinky]

Yeah .....sometimes. I never really boot it tho?

[Onne]

I don't think it's far off the mark, my 300SE does about 18mpg on the daily commute, and 25 on a long run (both on LPG) (22/28 mpg on petrol)