Maximum mileage of W124.

[Guest MBfallshirmjager]

I know this is old news but I am testing and stretching my W124 yet again by driving maximum mileage before heading to the petrol station. I manage to hit until 617km before decidng to fuel up. I could have experimented by going or pushing my german tank further but felt a little worried and scared so decided to fuel up quickly. Is this mileage clocked considered average or normal? Who has gone...say up to 650km or close to 700km before hitting the petrol stations huh?? Fyi, I am using fuel grade 95.

[keltanky]

you got a great light right foot! :-)

[Guest paddy]

lightened body???? what you are getting is fantastic mileage!!

[Guest MBfallshirmjager]

Thanks guys....but my FC is so so only leh....of between 9.5~10.2km/l....According to the manual....You can get better than that.

[Guest paddy]

hmmm.... "according to the manual...."

that's probably applicable to our w124 prob 15-18yrs ago???

[Guest benzw124]

I get like 400Km on a full tank on a good day lol... but usually average 350 only before i have to visit the petrol station. Mind sharing some tips on how to save petrol? My engine has been overhauled but transmission is starting to give problems. Could this be the cause of the high fuel comsumption?

[mothersuperior]

benzw124 wrote:

I get like 400Km on a full tank on a good day lol... but usually average 350 only before i have to visit the petrol station. Mind sharing some tips on how to save petrol? My engine has been overhauled but transmission is starting to give problems. Could this be the cause of the high fuel comsumption?

Yeah it might be possible. My 124 used to drink quite a bit of fuel - in fact quite similar consumption to yours - before I had it sent for a gearbox rebuild. It returned a much better consumption rate after the rebuild. 450kms average return to the tank.

[Guest aremean]

furthest I ever went was 672km.

I am not light footed and am usually the first one off the junctions. I usually travel at 90-100km/h

60% highway and 40% streets

[Guest mr w124]

Hey guys. Feel quite dumb cos been trying to log in to the old site for abt a week before i realised there was a new one. Anyway, best i have gotten is 480km full tank. Just did a top over haul of engine n a recon gearbox so hope to pass that elusive 500km barrier or hopefully, 600km.

[Guest noelhon]

Hi Bros, recently just pump the shell $1 petrol (98) and it give me pretty gd mileage. Travelled 478km before i pump 53L, which translate abt 9km/L. Before this pump, i used to get abt 8km/L. Guess you guys full tank mean 60L right? Am now thinking shld i change to electric fan for better FC n power (mech recommend i should).

[Guest E200]

noelhon wrote:

Hi Bros, recently just pump the shell $1 petrol (98) and it give me pretty gd mileage. Travelled 478km before i pump 53L, which translate abt 9km/L. Before this pump, i used to get abt 8km/L. Guess you guys full tank mean 60L right? Am now thinking shld i change to electric fan for better FC n power (mech recommend i should).

Yes, tend to echo this too... I'm using Caltex currently (becoz of the 12% discount by OCBC)... but somehow when I pumped Shell during the $1 promo, yes, the milege was more by about 40km over my usual full-tank. So Shell's slogan of "extra milege" works...

But then again, I still pump Caltex becoz of the 12% discount... haha

[Guest jameslhm]

hahaha same here

[Guest noelhon]

agree with you guys. pump shell once only and revert back to caltex 95 cos of 12% disc.

[Guest collincbb]

HI, I am new but amaze by this achievement. I get 10km to a litre 1995 16V and still exploring and getting ideals to run better then 10km.collincbb

[Guest calp]

Hi guys,

My best mileage was 560 km with 55 lt of petrol.

I always pump Shell 95 or 98; it is 50m away from my house...

On a side note:

Is it possible that when there is little fuel (~5lt) in the fuel tank, the car can 'momentarily' run out of gas while climbimg up the multi storey carparks?

I think this almost happened to me last week: I was abt to reverse into the lot after climbing a few storeys, when I engaged the reverse gear, rpm dropped below 500 and car started to shake, then I pull back to N, still below 500... engage D; still below 500...

Quickly parked the car, and shut the engine... Damn scary.

Next morning, started the engine: No problem at all. Slowly drove to Petrol station... Pumped petrol; up to now, no such recurrence...

Hopefully, this is a one-off incident...