Hello everyone,
I have a problem with very poor MPG on my Scenic. The car is 2010, still on warranty and regularly serviced.
My issue is that I'm getting only about 27MPG in urban driving, while manufacturer claims are around 47MPG for urban mode. I'm realistic about manufacturers claims but 20MPG difference seems to be a bit to much. To get this result I'm already driving like pensioner;) - very smoth acceleration and gear change around 2000rpm. I must admit, that most of my rides are really short runs, about 4 miles distance from home to work in busy Edinburgh morning and evening peaks traffic. I know that my car runs pretty much on cold engine for most of the time and it's a lot of stop-start action (on average I do this 4 miles in 15-20mins), but should it make such a huge difference on MPG?
I'm thinking of taking the car to the dealer for diagnostics and to check if there is indeed some problem, but they charge min. £90 for this even if they don't find anything :(
So I'm asking everyone for help and advise - do you thing my MPG is normal in described conditions or some fault is likely and I should take my car for warranty repair? And also, not sure if two things have anything to do with each other, when I start the car from cold it produces for short while quite a lot of white smoke from exhaust
To other owners of G.Scenics 1.5dci - what kind of fuel economy are you getting from your cars?
Thank you all for any help
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