My City is drinking fuel. I'm supposed to send this over to SC and get it fixed, but no budget yet for this month

Using petronas, i can get up to 400km on full tank.
Most i can get is 500km full tank with consistant 80km/h driving.

I went back to my hometown last few weeks, and filled up my City with BP petrol, guess what.. driving at speed of 110 - 160km/h at highway i can get 500+km on full tank.

As my city was drinking fuel like insane, i think for normal City can way pass their normal mileage figure.

Go try!

Er not yet. Now trying caltex. Petronas all bersepah2 here, seems i don't have much choice.
Cheap fuel lah petronas, no quality one.. kwahahah

I will try and find esso / mobil and try it out. But why? Good ar?

wah, esso / mobil actually gives you more mileage? And shell as well?
Hmm.. interesting.

How come you can only go up to 400+ on city idsi with petronas??
(now i'm wondering if my city idsi drink fuel or is this normal?)

Most people told me my city idsi drink fuel and go do something bout it as it can only go up to 400+km with petronas for full tank (and yes that is rm70+-).

I do notice that my acceleration is a bit jumpy when i floor the pedal (i'm assuming it's my spark plugs).

But yeah, is this normal? 400+km for full tank ?

My car is not modded, all standard. Myself? Can say a bit modded
Usually i tend to drive a bit faster than average driver. But i rarely floor my City, just sometimes accelerate quick to overtake (and i do lots of overtaking)

But 400km / fuel tank is normal? Huh.. i tot city save fuel and can go up to 550km / RM60, meaning if rm70 about 600+leh?

Wah so many nice drivers aa out there?? I just dun believe it

Based on what other people says, i think you and i have the same car 'fuel drinking' issue kcng.
Do you notice anything wrong with your city? Like jerks when trying to overtake, etc?
I experienced this a lot if i shifted to S gear.

Tell me if you do something and fixed your mileage. I think the same fix can go for my idsi city as well.

On the other hand, it's good to know that you're not alone

Hm, i didn't check mine for quite some time. Wait for next month salary then can go check.
Anyone knows Honda SC near sri kembangan? or maybe puchong?

But hey, even if my city is drinking fuel, mileage still better than proton cars

This post has been edited by neato4u: Sep 17 2007, 06:52 PM

Darn! I just replied and my post dissapeared!

Have to start again loh.. aiyoh!

Look for additional accessories (eg. leather seats, ICE, rims, tinted, etc). I bought mine for same price but have leather seats. Trust me, it gives the more expensive look if you have them. A loss for me as puspakom ripped off my tinted window (they claimed it's too dark @ 40%)

kcng - Here's to add to your list - Caltex RM70 = 400km (it struggels to go there).

So my next tip to improve mileage is...
1) pump my tire to 230psi
2) fill up with esso / mobil or at least shell / bp.
3) send car for full check at SC (when i have money)

Where about is the SC near bukit jalil. I rarely go out so i dunno lah.. Any chance you have map?

I got the squeak sound from dashboard as well. Not so squeak but i think more to a metal sound. To resolve this (temporarily), i firmly press the 3 knobs with the palm of my hand. It goes away for a while, but when you hit hard bump it will sound again.

Hola everyone

kcng, i tried caltex just once. No jam whatsoever, i think it's my normal driving condition (trafic lights, minor speeding, usual cruising, etc). Maybe I'll give it a try later when fuel empty

But you know what, i fill up RM100 with mobil / esso (first time RM70, second time topup another RM30) and went from Selangor to Ipoh and back - my total trip until fuel light came up was 671.5km


How come you got better mileage with mobil / esso?
But FYi i was driving at constant 140km/h and sometimes speed up to 160km/h for a while
I was driving alone and driving fast actually keep me wide awake (if slow i will yawn and pull over at roadside or R&R and sleep for hours)

So if you drive at an average of 140km/h, you get 671.5km with RM100 of mobil / esso

Now i'm trying BP again (as it gave me the furthest mileage before).

Er.. so 230kpa is overkill? I don't know that.. my tires are stock (with stock rims). Guess better lower that down to 210kpa huh?

I think it's 14" (stock). But how to check? Super noob here

Haiyoh kcng, late already still not sleep? Tomolo not working aa?

This post has been edited by neato4u: Sep 27 2007, 07:58 PM

Ok just before this thread close off, let me share with you something

Some of you might seen my speedometer blasting off at 230km/h+.
I tell ya, for normal City, this is NOT possible.
For modded City speedometer.. this may be possible (er.. speedometer?)

Yes, speedometer modded with Paint Shop Pro lol!

The secret to this :

1) the original picture i took, where the car is idle (0km/h)


2) Then the needle, i carefully extract those and apply a mirror image of it
With a little blend and then tilt the picture to 25degree left plus adding a motion blur, would give the feel of how hard it is to snap a 230km/h+ overthespeedometer shot


Hehe don't flame me guys, i didn't say the picture was real on first place
In fact, i didn't say anything at all

But it was good to see excited people comments about it
Maybe someone can really mod and get City to run at that speed, i know it's possible

Sayonara V3!

This post has been edited by neato4u: Sep 29 2007, 11:02 PM

Hahaha so fast mydelsol, i haven't submitted the entire post yet lol lol!

Hahaha.. yes 170km/h was my fastest as well, wife sitting beside me oso like that bising2. Hehehe.. well, we all loves our wife more than car yes?. And usually i dont drive that fast with passengers around



I'm still thinking of sending my City for engine tuning
But dunno when will i have the time to do that.. sigh.