MPG on an 05 auto

[05XC90]

Was on holidays all last week, covered almost 1000miles, with the bulk of that travelling to and from Devon, quite a lot of motorway miles at 70mph, fully laden, roofbox and 4kids. Average mpg reads 37 but I worked it out to be around 32. Does that sound about right?

It was super on the trip though, couldn't have done without the aircon, temp actually read 39 on Sunday!!

[XJSDriver]

My average has been consistently between 32-34 until this hot weather where it has dropped, probably due to the a/c working hard.

[aland]

That's way better than I get from my 2008 D5 manual - but it's the 185 / Euro 4 engine which is known to be rather thirsty.
Mine averages around 27 displayed (and i'm scared to calculate the real figure), however does quite a few short journeys and longer ones often have a caravan behind and bikes on top!

[Tony500]

That’s cracking mpg your getting there 🤷🏼*♂️.

My 07 185 D5 auto does 23mpg on a long stretch. 20mpg round about the doors.
Just put a new swirl flap assembly in and cleaned all the carbon out so hopefully see 1-2mpg on a long drive now.

[05XC90]

Good to know it's getting what it should be then, AC on full blast non stop on the trip!

[cchidzey]

Originally Posted by Tony500

That’s cracking mpg your getting there 🤷🏼*♂️.

My 07 185 D5 auto does 23mpg on a long stretch. 20mpg round about the doors.
Just put a new swirl flap assembly in and cleaned all the carbon out so hopefully see 1-2mpg on a long drive now.

Thats terrible.
I've got an 07 185 auto too, I regularly drive from north England to Aberdeen and back, sits at 70mph on cruise control, computer averages 36mpg, I work it out at 33.

[thedonnmeister]

I have a 60 plate D5 Polestar and get 31mpg on my 60 mile round trip to work and when we went to France last month with 5 people, 2 dogs and a roof box, cruise set at 85 and we were getting 28mpg.

[TonyB65]

Originally Posted by 05XC90

Was on holidays all last week, covered almost 1000miles, with the bulk of that travelling to and from Devon, quite a lot of motorway miles at 70mph, fully laden, roofbox and 4kids. Average mpg reads 37 but I worked it out to be around 32. Does that sound about right?

It was super on the trip though, couldn't have done without the aircon, temp actually read 39 on Sunday!!

I have an 09 and mine is bang on 32mpg for the last three fuel ups (my calculation) but usually says 35mpg on the OBC, so that sounds pretty good to me. I towed my caravan with it for the first time the other day, only a short trip, but my mpg was barely affected, which surprised me. I've noticed mine tends to use the engine to brake on long downhill slopes so I switch to geartronic and change up when that happens and it can make a slight difference.

[Floodys]

We have also just got back from a 1000mile caravan trip with the 163hp xc90, 3 kids, 3 bikes on roof and a fully load big Bailey caravan weighing around 1750kg, the car averaged 22mpg, bit shocked but some of the hills on the south coast, Cornwall and Somerset were fairly big!

[Shala]

Bought my XC90 last June, have a 5 seater runaround for the town, xc90 for when I need to go with 5 people. Most driving is between hampshire and london area. so mostly motorways. The average MPG shows as 34MPG.

I wanted to buy a 2015 XC90 as they say its 45MPG but Honest John states real world MPG on new XC90 is 34MPG also. I'm a bit confused here. Don't want to shell out £30k+ to still be in the same but nicer looking boat

https://www.honestjohn.co.uk/realmpg/volvo/xc90-2015