New Maserati Coupe Owner (with questions!)

[Parisien]

Excellent MLC...am gunna have to drive harder to get those miles per UK gallon down to a suitably low level.....

Great about the discs too! Will await the up-date.


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[X1ons]

Couple of things, did any of you guys realise that the Maserati Trip computer is in Miles to the US Gallon not the imperial Gallon? Page 111 "Average Fuel consumption" of your Maserati Info Centre booklet refers. A US Gallon is 20% less than a UK gallon, therefore if you see 20mpg you are actually doing 24mp(imp)G.

Also I might have some news on the NIT discs, I found a website with Alfa/Fiat/Lancia links that might work on Maserati's. Give me till tomorrow I need to burn a disc and test it out...

Does the US Gallon conversation not therefore work the other way - 20 US gallons equals 16.6 imperial??

Converter link:

http://www.csgnetwork.com/fuelvolumeconverter.html

M

 

[X1ons]

Gents - just looking back over some old threads and wondered what we are all averaging MPG?

Over the weekend I had a trip up to Edinburgh from Newcastle. On the way up I sat at 70 (honest...) and managed 18ish, and on the way back I really did sit at 70 and seemed to get about 19.8.

Now I cannot tell if my cars computer will just not go above 20mpg or if the car is just not capable of going over 20 mpg!!

I'm also keen to know the answer to the above converter question.

Cheers!

M

 

[Emtee]

Hi X1ons, You can get it above 20 mpg...just... but mine averages 16 point something, so 18-20 mpg is pretty good I think.

 

[Andyk]

My 3200 did arounf 17.......

 

[dem maser]

same as andys for me, around 17 mpg

 

[X1ons]

Cheers chaps - good to know mine is as thirsty as the rest of them!! Around the doors I'm probably 14-16mpg.

What about the converter question? Is 18 mpg actually a higher UK reading or lower?

 

[Easyplan66]

mine has always been 14-15 at best.....

 

[conaero]

A US gallon is smaller (can you believe it) than a UK gallon:

US gallon: 3.78 litres
UK gallon: 4.55 litres

The 4200 trip computer is based upon US Gallons:

Thus you have to multiply your MPG (based on US gallon) by 1.2 so Andrew, your actual MPG is 17 mpg

X1ons you are 21.5 mpg actual

 

[lozcb]

Ive tested both the GS and the 4200, using full tank to full tank and Miles covered , long runs across europe definately in the 21 plus range , and that was often hitting the 100mph barrier, sadly around town it drops drastically to the 15/16 mark espeacially if like me you warm it up for 5 mins before you set off , track days lucky if i get 8-10 mpg ,



regards loz

 

[Klive]

Bit of statistic freak here and have measured mine from tank to tank for the past 3 years converting those metric thingy's to the real English big gallons and got this.



Ignoring the oddballs as I don't always record the right figures (shame on me) I average 19.0, (Yep, not 18.9 or 19.1 but 19.0). You can clearly see the difference between the long and short runs.
I've actually had the onboard computer reading over 24 once on a 50 mile trip. That was by keeping it below 2,500 rpm. Now that was difficult!

 

[conaero]

So basically Klive you are trending downwards, good man, plant that right foot.

Living the dream!

 

[doodlebug]

A US gallon is smaller (can you believe it) than a UK gallon:

US gallon: 3.78 litres
UK gallon: 4.55 litres

The 4200 trip computer is based upon US Gallons:

Thus you have to multiply your MPG (based on US gallon) by 1.2 so Andrew, your actual MPG is 17 mpg

X1ons you are 21.5 mpg actual

My 4200 trip computer is based on Imperial gallons. As I've explained several times before on both this forum and the other one, it is easy to check by changing the displayed units from mpg to l/100km. I've checked mine again earlier today and it displayed 19.8 mpg and 14.3 litres/100km. If it displayed US gallons, the trip computer would show 16.4 mpg.

 

[Parisien]

So, how can we change it to read in mpg DB?

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[doodlebug]

Parisien - do you mean how do I change it from US mpg to Imperial mpg? I don't know. Mine has always read Imperial.

From memory, to change between mpg and litres/100km, press MAIN, press and rotate the RH knob to select CONFIGURATION. There is a choice of things to change, e.g. °C or °F etc. Under Consumption Units there is km/litre, litres/100km and mpg. There doesn't appear to be a way to select US or Imperial. Maybe it's a choice on the installation disc but as I haven't got one of those nor the NIT handbook I am not too sure.

In any case, I'm metric so I always use litres/100km. It has the added benefit that SWMBO isn't metric and doesn't know how thirsty the car really is.

 

[BennyD]

My 4200 trip computer is based on Imperial gallons. As I've explained several times before on both this forum and the other one, it is easy to check by changing the displayed units from mpg to l/100km. I've checked mine again earlier today and it displayed 19.8 mpg and 14.3 litres/100km. If it displayed US gallons, the trip computer would show 16.4 mpg.


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Dodgy choice of music though!

 

[doodlebug]

Young wife.

 

[Parisien]

Thanks for that DB....and yes blaming a younger wife is always the default position............or is that an actual position.......


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[BennyD]

I wouldn't put too much faith in the Italian computer; by changing from Imperial to metric the travel time and range have changed too. How does that work? Are metric minutes different from imperial minutes? If so, I must have been off school the day they told us that!

 

[lozcb]

I wouldn't put too much faith in the Italian computer; by changing from Imperial to metric the travel time and range have changed too. How does that work? Are metric minutes different from imperial minutes? If so, I must have been off school the day they told us that!

Exactly Ian , thats why i did by back to back tankfulls over miles covered , several times


regards loz