General: 1.6 S drive 2010 model start stop problem

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Originally Posted by iainmd

Nowhere near. We have a 2009 1.6D DRIVe SE and it averages 45 with a pretty equal mix of town/A/B/motorway driving. Took it fully loaded to France and back (2,000 mile return trip) with roofbox and motorway driving all the way and the best it got was 41mpg average.

I've not had a lightly loaded long journey yet to see what's achievable in more ideal conditions but I'd wager it would struggle to top 55mpg at best. Why the DRIVe model used to only have 5 gears I'll never know. That kills the MPG on the motorway.

The gearing on the 1.6 D Driv e is altered from the standard model to optimise fuel consumption .
"fully loaded" and "roof box" , are bad words for economy .. so is 60 + mph ,
I bet you were doing a lot more than that :-).

What was your average speed by the way ? it needs to be in a band 38 - 50 mph .

yes i have seen 3 driv e volvos now showing mid 70's mpg on their average consumption , it is ironic that they have all been V50's though ,
It CAN be done but the only way in my experience is to sit at 55 mph on the motorway hoping there are not too many hills .

I find it very easy to get 50 mpg even in town , a lot harder to get 60 mpg and as above VERY hard to get near 70 mpg .. but it is possible .

I recently did 4 x identical 100 mile trips from the south to the midlands in the D2 version with 6 speed , my average speed was 42 mph , i did not touch a motorway and i got 63 mpg driving for economy , after the second journey i had reached a plateu and could not get it higher but it was maintained for the other two trips . There was traffic on 3 or 4 occasions too .

set your display to instantaneous mpg and you will soon see where you are going wrong , with the D2 version the vast majority of the time it was showing 85 - 99 mpg ,
hills are a killer and so are the first few miles from cold start and pulling away from traffic lights . NEVER use boost or overtake anyone !

Remember the official government figures are nothing to do with volvo , they are just there to compare one car to another not imply that any car will actualy do that on the road .