New Vios 1.5G Mileage

**Djerms** · November 5th, 2009 09:11 AM

Really depends on the distance/road you travel. Depends on the term "city use" for you.

**vinj** · November 5th, 2009 11:19 PM

IF you drive inside Cebu City then that is a lot of stop-and-go traffic from my experience. Try to adjust your driving habits as well. ;)

**niky** · November 6th, 2009 08:36 AM

Is this an automatic? Then it's normal.

Consider this:

If you drive at 60 km/h on the highway, you can get 15 km/l. Using 4 liters per hour.

You're averaging around 20 km/h in traffic... you're getting 6 km/l... which is also about 4 liters per hour.

Of course, it's never an exact calculation... but then, you can never exactly calculate fuel economy in traffic based on highway economy, because traffic gives you the added problems of driveline drag (transmission), heat soak (which saps engine power) and jackrabbit starts (acceleration uses much more fuel than cruising).

This all above and beyond the fact that at 0 km/h, you're getting 0 km/l.

Same message I give to those who think their i10 is too "gas guzzly"... take it on a long trip... no traffic. If it doesn't at least hit 14-16 km/l when driven at 80 km/h on the NLEX, then you can complain. I don't think you have the same kind of roads in CEBU, but you can always RoRo to Bohol and go on a vacation drive...

**josefarrugia** · November 6th, 2009 09:38 AM

Alright guys. Thanks for all your comments. Much appreciated! I am less worried now ;)

**green_machine** · November 7th, 2009 09:19 PM

Originally Posted by josefarrugia

Alright guys. Thanks for all your comments. Much appreciated! I am less worried now ;)

Wag ka na mag-worry. Ganyan talaga kasi bago pa. Yung Altis namin nakaabot pa nga ng mga bandang 5.0++ km/l isang beses. Although stop-and-go driving lang kasi palagi tsaka nakaka-300 kms pa lang nung makita ko. It will gradually improve. Ngayong lampas 500 kms na yung amin, umakyat na sa 7.0++ yung FC. Mababa pa rin, but it's improving. Pagtapos ng 1K PMS mo marami mag-iimprove, like yung performance tsaka fuel consumption.

**mda** · November 7th, 2009 09:25 PM

Yep. Usually kapag bago yung car, I've noticed medyo malakas kumain ng gas.

06 Civic 1.8S AT = 7-8KM/L when we bought it. Now doing somewhere in between 8-8.5KM/L
--pure metro manila driving and no highways (EDSA/C5 doesn't count when you're always in the Mandaluyong/Ortigas/Pasig/Makati area).

**harold13** · November 26th, 2009 11:06 AM

yup normal lang yan after 1k daw mag iimprove na sya.

**basti08** · November 26th, 2009 11:23 AM

hahaha sir, i thought my Vios is a guzzler too.. 1.5G AT. Just went pass a thousand kilometers and i realized i just didnt know how to use the trip computer. If you really wanna know how much is your actual average km/l, you have to reset it before a trip.

before i was averaging 6km/l i thought, but then when i learned how to properly use it, im consistently getting 9.5-10.5km/l mix 80% city and 20% highway driving. I expect to improve it after the 1K pms.

**basti08** · November 28th, 2009 09:08 AM

Last night, I gas up at Shell Kasing-kasing in Kamias. After the fill up, i notcied my gauge didnt change, but sometimes the Vios' trip computer lags in recalculating for about a couple of minutes, makikita mo na lang na nagbago once you are moving. Kaso, nakarating na ako sa bahay... Wala pa din, even its range didnt change at all. Dinaya kaya ako ng gas station o sira yung MID ng Vios ko? Natatakot tuloy ako, kabago-bago tapos baka sira, wag naman sana.