QUOTE (neil oconnor @ Feb 16 2005, 05:00 PM)
hi,
yes I have tried driving as careful as possible, being as light on the pedal as one could be. but it made no difference at all. People here with there 3llitre sabbs and 7 series bmws get much better mileage. They laugh when they hear what I get, they think I am joking!
The papers here reviewed it (after I bought it) and rated the tucson very highly but asked if there was a hole in the fuel tank. Hyundai sweden said they would investigate it and came back saying they tested the car and managed 10l/100km on it. They compared it to the 3.5L V8 volvo xc90, which did 13.5 in the test vs the 14 the tucson did! They were quite amazed!.
Its very strange how the tucsons down under get much better mileage... do the ones down there have the automatic geat box too?
Someone parked a tucson right next to mine at teh supermarket the other day so I waited till he came out. He had 10000km on the clock and said his now does about 12-13l regardless of motorway driving or city driving. He said at the start he was filling up the tank all the time though but he never remembered it being as bad as what I get!.
Judging by what everyone else is reporting I still seem to be guzzling the most! Even the dealer thought it was high, despite feeding me the usual crap that you cant go by what the brochure says as its ideal conditions they measure it on. My answer was that the santa fe brochure said 9.8 mixed and for that I got 500-600km. The tucson said 10l/100km mixed and for that I get 270-310km and asked him to do the maths. But he is quite ok about it and at least tries to contact hyundai, who first said they were investigating the problem, and a month later came back saying I had not enough km on the clock to tell!
I was really **** off before, now Im just praying if enough of us keep pushing them they might actually do something...
If it is any consolation, you are not the only one ! My petrol light came on after 320km for my last tank !! I have already done 55k km in my car and instead of getting better like what most people are saying here it is in fact getting worse. Now on the current tank I am using Shell's new petrol called FuelSaver over here in HK. I am already almost half tank and I have only done 125 km !! Can you believe that ?!! I would be lucky to get 150 km by the time the guage reads half tank.
Like you, I had also tried to be lighter on the pedal, no major difference at all. I will call up the dealer to complain. Even for urban + spirited driving it shouldn't be that bad for a 2 litre car. The dealer told me mixed driving should average about 12L/100km, but the rate things are going I am approaching 17L/100km. My friend even told me that his BMW M3 drinks less. Now that's really taking the **** !!!
Tucson Fuel Consumption Issues(petrol models only), PETROL MODELS ONLY
Apr 28 2008, 02:43 PM
