Hey all,
Thought I'd share my story with my SR180 and the fuel economy and power.
I've posted a few thing on this forum over the years I've had the car. About the fuel econmy and power on how bad it was - I finally got off my **** and did something about it and put my hand in my wallet.
I was literally getting 28-30mpg on average on the streets and I done a drive to heathrow last year, cruised at 70mph and got 39mph.
Long story short, I needed to improve it as I would start doing 95miles a day back and fore to work so did the following things:
Terraclean - £110 as its a 2.2 litre
Cleaned out the EGR valve - actually followed the post on here, it was straight forward.
DPF cleaner - Wynns brand
I was very pleased with the results!
On a good day I can get 60mpg out of the car on the motorway but I'm guarenteed 55mpg+ on the motorway.
Street driving im getting a respectable 45mpg
The turbo lag and power has also improved greatly!!! Hell of a difference.
Being completly honest, Im only getting these figures on the motorway by doing 55-60mph and not throwing the car everywhere, and driving with my pedal to the metal everywhere , but just wanted to post this as im very pleased with the results as I never ever thought the car could reach those types of figures.
Here are some pictures of how dirty the EGR valve was.
Even though the above things helped, it definitely takes driving like a learner as well - If you can like that, enjoy starting to save some money and fueling up less often