BeekeeperMG5
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5.3!
A lot of downhill and very careful driving?
Use the up/down arrows, right hand side of the steering wheelHow do you get that display up? I've not found it.
Shmbo was driving, trip to Tunbridge Wells and back.A lot of downhill and very careful driving?
Do you have the heating on full blast and the fans up high?Even if I drive carefully in eco with kers 3 I don't get over 3.1. Maybe there's a fault with my system
It does make a difference, yes, would only use when needed.I'll try tomorrow with the heater turned off and see if that makes a massive difference but I can see that it would...
5.0 is awesome. Keep it up.Today I had a run to the garden centre mix roads conditions 6/7 miles on M6 at around 60mph on the way back with 300 ltrs of compost in the boot big heavy bags roads mainly flat aircon for on a little while, using eco with kers 1&2 but with as much anticipation in driving style as possible but still keeping up with the traffic
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Hi Leo yeh did that myself several years ago broke a rear spring on my Octavia it was at the time nowadays when doing anything like I did yesterday I all spread the load amuch as possible by dropping the rear seats to get as much as I can in the middle of the car rather than all in the boot area but 300 kg isn’t that much really as for the range it as gone up to 5.0 a couple of times with careful driving but seems to be averaging around 4.4/6 so not bad I find driving in Eco mode on kers1 is fine for me then when I know I am going to have to stop or slow right down I lift off as early as possible and flick it into Kers 2 when I can the Kers 3 I find to aggressive try to leave that alone unless going down a hill obviously all depending on the traffic around you5.0 is awesome. Keep it up.
Before the lockdown, I had a similar run in my Astra carrying heavy bags. At the end of year when I went for an MOT, we discovered a failed rear suspension.From then onwards, I made it a point to check the permitted unladen and gross vehicle weight for future trips.
Hi Leo yeh did that myself several years ago broke a rear spring on my Octavia it was at the time nowadays when doing anything like I did yesterday I all spread the load amuch as possible by dropping the rear seats to get as much as I can in the middle of the car rather than all in the boot area but 300 kg isn’t that much really as for the range it as gone up to 5.0 a couple of times with careful driving but seems to be averaging around 4.4/6 so not bad I find driving in Eco mode on kers1 is fine for me then when I know I am going to have to stop or slow right down I lift off as early as possible and flick it into Kers 2 when I can the Kers 3 I find to aggressive try to leave that alone unless going down a hill obviously all depending on the traffic around you
Even at these figures where the official figures of 214/276 come from Is beyond me this is careful driving and if you where to push the battery to give you all it’s useable power of about 48kw this would mean around 192 range at best but for me I’m working on 150/160 maybe less with Motorway work they don’t like constant speeds
Les