The price of fuel or is there something wrong?

[Billy Bob Bob]

I have recently started out on my own after being paid off from my old job. In my old job I had a company car/van so never paid much attention to the price of fuel. (I did pay for private miles which worked out at 13p a mile)

After viewing loads of vans I got myself a 51 reg 1.9d Citroen Dispatch which ticked all the boxes I needed. However I have had the van now for a few weeks and have found it to be very expensive on fuel. The last couple of times I have put £40 of fuel in which takes it to just below half a tank and I only get around 160 miles before the light comes back on!
Is this normal and just down to the current cost of fuel?
I would of thought I would be getting about 200-250 miles.

Does anyone else have the same van and if so what miles do you get?

So the question is do you thing this sounds right or could there be something wrong causing me to use excess fuel?

the dispatch is the same as a Peugeot expert yea?i have the expert but its 2003 and the 2.0 hdi it goes like a rocket but is crap on diesel so may be something common to these engines and the 1.9 is sluggish in the vans size,my car a rover 75 with the BMW diesel engine is chipped to give 150 bhp and is still better on fuel than the van even with 5 passengers

 

[LegionellaSlave]

Rip-off Britain!!!!

:veryangry2:

 

[REDSAW]

I appreciate this is a fun comment (it isn't?!!) but by the time you'd paid import duty, diesel duty, VAT, customs and excise administration costs and transport it would make our 139.9p per litre cheap as chips!!

thats the problem!.
it only costs around £1,500 to ship a 40foot shipping container irrespective of the contents...
thats a few litres of fuel,no?.

you could get by on pocket change in Caracas, Venezuela, where a long-standing government fuel subsidy means drivers there are getting by on 6 cents a gallon. Tehran, Iran, and Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, are the next cheapest, with an average per-gallon price of 38 cents and 45 cents, respectively.
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Why is there such a wide spread between Venezuela and Eritrea? Rozell explains: "Some countries want to try to encourage conservation and alternative fuels, so they might tax it. Others [like Venezuela] might want to subsidize it so that their people get cheaper fuel." Also, he notes, "In Europe they tend to tax a lot. That's why a lot of people don't have vehicles, and they have better mass transit."

 

[The_Tonk]

When was it last serviced - in my experience a vehicle is 10% less economical after about 10 months, so if it's not been serviced for 2-3 years then this will have quite an impact.

I'd expect around 33mpg with one of those (about 200 mile range). My old Transit Connect gave me about 42mph and my Transit gives me 38mpg but I have a very light right foot and usually wait for downhills until I try to reach 60mph.

Not sure for defo when last serviced as not long got van but am planning on servicing in next week or so.

 

[The_Tonk]

I also have a light right foot!

Although I have had a company car for the lase 3 years or so I have never been much of a racing driver.

 

[The_Tonk]

I suppose I am spoilt as I get an easy 60 mpg without trying

What do you drive to get this?

 

[quality]

I have a VW caddy that gives 60 mpg without trying