The nova's terrible on petrol

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Originally Posted by L14MNP

Wanna swap? lol

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BAAHAH!

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Originally Posted by Razorjack

BAAHAH!

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i know these kids with small engines, dont have a clue jack, 10-15mpg FTW eh lol

so everybody thinks its fairly normal then? my mate has a 1.1 fezzie, and petrol seems to last for ever in that :-(

oh, and he drives like a muppet lol

You should be getting around 30mpg even driving with a heavy foot, the 1.2spi is just 45bhp. The ECU controls the fuelling, so theres no adjustment to be made there.

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Originally Posted by NovaBoi92

i put £10 in it, and it doesnt even last a day. £5 lasts a few hours. now i dont know if this is normal because this is the only car ive ever been driving? its a 1.2, did have a corsa top box on it but now i have the standard bin lid with the front bit off. would that make a difference to fuel consumption? it has the stanadard exhaust on it by the way with the cat (put it back to standard because the one i had on there was too loud) ive looked all over the engine, there's no vacuum pipes off anywhere, its all as it should be. any ideas people? thanks

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You must have one hell of a fuel leak lol lol

But were all forgetting that these days a tenner gets you about four pitiful litres of fuel with our horrific fuel prices, so youre probably only driving about with a couple of litres in and thats why youre using your "tenner" up so fast lol

Thats true, £10 probably bought quite a bit more petrol when I had my 1.2

Anyway, why put just £10 in at a time - you just waste more petrol having to drive to the petrol station all the time.

Fit a C20LET. I got 39.49 MPG on the way to billing.

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Originally Posted by krobinson

Fit a C20LET. I got 39.49 MPG on the way to billing.

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probably because you dont need to floor it for about 10 minutes to get to 50... lol

it running rough at all ?

1.2 spi's are prob the most economical of nova's, there slow as hell and use next to no petrol. you said you put the exhaust back to standard with a cat on, did u plug in the lamda sensor on the downpipe of the exhaust ? (if its got one that is) that would probably effect fueling. could also be a blowing exhaust, loss of power causes the engine to use more fuel to get it around.

it could be a number of things tho, like a loose jubilee clip on your feed or return fuel lines, and fuels gradually evapourating, could have a leak tankside or the engine just could be knakered and burning alot of fuel.

you dont have 200 kilo's of subs etc in the boot do ya ?