Fuel consumption on new 2014 Vios

[Somtamnication]

I am no math expert, but this has me stumped.

Had the car one week, this Friday. Toyota gave "free" 500 baht gas. I put in 1000 baht (2 x 500). Last one being this past Wednesday when the yellow light came on. I do not drive much, city driving.

Car has 187 km, gas bought 3 times 1500 baht / 38 baht per litre= 39.4 litres/187= 4.84 km per ltr.

My toyota prerunner did better than that.

This is a 1.5cc engine, as opposed to my very much missed 3.0 cc diesel.

Yesterday I put in 28 ltr of fuel, reset the trip odo to 0 and will study this again.

My point is, is this normal?

[tingtong]

These numbers arent normal.

Why not go back to the dealer and ask their opinion about it?

[sotsira]

Are you sure Toyota put in 500bt free fuel, that's about 1/3 of a tank?

Was that showing on the fuel gauge when you picked the car up?

[JAS21]

The only real way to get a reasonably accurate figure is full tank to full tank. So fill it up ... do the mileage and then fill it up again. The petrol flap tank does lock I assume?

[Jerry Cornelius]

The only real way to get a reasonably accurate figure is full tank to full tank. So fill it up ... do the mileage and then fill it up again. The petrol flap tank does lock I assume?

Even with just 1,00THB of fuel, around 6km/l really is excessive fuel consumption. While fuel consumption is a bit higher on a new car for a while, there's something really wrong with that figure. Take it back to Toyota. If there's nothing wrong, hide the spare key.

Jerry

[Somtamnication]

The tank was almost half a tank when I drove out of the dealer lot. I like the full tank to full tank idea. Will do it if my readings later this week also show low gas mileage. The petrol flap does lock.

[Ace of Pop]

Lock up the Key.

[Dmaxdan]

I have a 2013 (new shape) manual gear Vios. I don't very often fill it up, normally just 500 baht of E20. That gives me constantly about 220 km, which if you do the maths;

500 baht (E20) at 36 baht a litre = 13.8 litres

220 km on 13.8 litres = about 15 km per litre.

My driving is a bit of a mix, city and highway.