Hi, I'm new to this group but would welcome feedback on X-Trail fuel
consumption from any other owners out there. I'm getting between 35.5
and 38 miles per gallon doing mainly long distance driving at 70 (ish!)
on the motorway. This seems lower than the published figures but the
garage says everything is fine.

Thanks for your help,

regards,

Keith

"Keith Hanson" <k.hanson (AT) ntlworld (DOT) com> wrote

quick and accelerate quite rapidly and have had it up to 115mph. I was
rather dissapointed in it but considering the way I drive I suppose its to
be expected. By comparison I had a 2.0l DTi Zafira before the X-trail and
was getting around 40mpg out of that while been driven in the same manner.
Other owners were reporting top 40's or 50 so it is probably just my driving
style.

Steve

In message <mhx7e.43527$mV1.10610 (AT) fe3 (DOT) news.blueyonder.co.uk>, Steve
<no.way (AT) com (DOT) ?.invalid> writes
a constant 70 and 74 at a constant 60, both worked out on the motorway
over 300miles with 3 stops for tea etc.
--
Clive.

say 100 miles and see what consumption I get.

I have tried this before but gave in cos Ive ended up putting my foot down
to play with people cos they automaticlly think that its a slow vehicle,
will have to resist!!

Steve

Steve wrote:

Hi Steve,

Thanks for your answer. My X-Trail is a 134 bhp DCI.

Regards,

Keith
"Steve" <no.way@com> wrote

I measured the consumption as promised. When I filled up, the previous
consumption was around 35 which is the best I have had so far. I drove 134
mile and refuelled to the brim. I drove between 56 and 65 mph all this and
as a guess was sitting at about 63 most the way. I worked out consumption to
be 43mpg which is rather cool. After filling up again I drove the rest of
the journey at a greater speed, did some about town journeys for a couple of
hours and then filled again and got 35mpg again. Hope this helps

Steve


"khanson" <khanson (AT) flyer (DOT) co.uk> wrote

That's great,

Many thanks for your help Steve. Sounds like our two cars are doing much the
same which is reassuring at least!

Thanks again,

regards,

Keith
"Steve" <no.way@com> wrote

"khanson" <khanson (AT) flyer (DOT) co.uk> wrote

no car will ever be unless you never rev it over 2500 rpm and change gear
early, accelerate gently etc. Its nice to know that I can get 43mpg from it
if I wanted too. Also nice knowing that the X-trail will do 115mph (GPS
recorded speed) which is pretty quick for a small SUV and 3mph more than the
specs say. Had a young chav in a newish honda civic pushing in front of me
and a longish queue of other people at a roundabout by driving up the right
lane and then pulling in front of me at the exit of the roundabout. After
about a mile the now SC comes to another roundabout then onto a DC for a 1
mile long slip to the motorway. Soon as we offf the roundabout he really put
is foot down to overtake a couple of vans and he was constantly looking in
his mirror to see if I was still there. He was really really booting it.
Moved over to left lane and I just shot past him still accelerating when his
civic had just seemed to not want to build up any more speed. Think that
x-trail gave him a shock!

Steve