Cruise Control V's Fuel Economy

[buttons]

When and if I do use it, it as you have descibed above but it doesn't form part of my natural driving routine, so maybe I'll give it a go this weekend on all roads - when I remember, and see if it makes driving a "better" experience. Then I maybe a CC convert and s0d the extra fuel if it does make a diference.

Like it sod the extra fuel. Whether it uses more fuel or not will depend on the type of driver you are without it. If you are a fugal driver then CC will use a tad more fuel but if you are a boy racer then cc will save you money.

 

[Enword]

Use it all the time on Mway with large trailer (316 sprinter with Sprintshift) no difference in mpg, but wouldn't of had a motorhome if I worried to much about it.

 

[Zigisla]

Like it sod the extra fuel. Whether it uses more fuel or not will depend on the type of driver you are without it. If you are a fugal driver then CC will use a tad more fuel but if you are a boy racer then cc will save you money.

Defo Boy Racer.. Look at the aero and all with a 2.3 130 bhp

 

[Snowbird]

I find my cruise control much easier to live with since tying the piece of string to the stick jammed under the dash. Saves having to keep bending down to knock it out of cruise .

 

[Steve devon]

Cruise is so much better than trying to get your right foot in the door well, perching yer Arse on the edge of the seat and controlling the throttle with yer left foot.

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[icantremember]

I use cc regularly when I need to go back to the loo.

 

[Forestboy]

Had mine fitted by Dave Newell a few years ago its brilliant on long journeys much more relaxing and less tiring.
Mpg probably better because I dont keep drifting up into 70s just keep a steady 60/62 and overide as big hills approach.
A must if you travel a lot imo

 

[dabhand]

I find my cruise control much easier to live with since tying the piece of string to the stick jammed under the dash. Saves having to keep bending down to knock it out of cruise .

Been there, read the book!

 

[gus-lopez]

A/C not used as MH bought in Dec.

It should come on to aid de-misting. Additionally it should also be run for approx. 30 mins every week to prevent the compressor seal from drying out & then the gas will be lost.

Cruise control best thing ever, stops my leg from aching on long runs

I fitted a hand throttle.

Cruise is so much better than trying to get your right foot in the door well, perching yer Arse on the edge of the seat and controlling the throttle with yer left foot.

In a frog-eye sprite I had years ago I used to use a brick to hold accelerator down.

Before I fitted hand throttle I would always have to swop feet on the long stretches across the centre of spain.

 

[Snowbird]

Been there, read the book!

I was in the book "Cola cowboys" .

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[dabhand]

I was in the book "Cola cowboys" .

On my first "extended" tour of France in my 1983 Joseph Arnold (310, 5 speed manual Merc) many years ago, the gear lever snapped off at floor level as luck would have it, I had a small trolley Jack, the handle of which sufficed as a gear lever for several months until I got a replacement off a scrapper.

 

[Baldeagle7470]

Use my CC nearly all the time fuel economy is irrelevant compared to the price of the vehicle.
At the end of the day it doesn't make much odds to fuel consuption. It actually uses a lot more fuel as it floors the throttle every time you come to hill but that is compensated because I tend to drive slower with CC on as without it speed gradually creeps up.

Would agree with this BUT our Challenger on a Transit Chassis 6 speed 155 bhp,with CC on and arriving at a hill it slows until it loses 10kph then the CC cuts out,what the hell is that about?by the time you have lost a bit of speed and then realized what's going on you are needing to drop two gears to recover the lost impetus.
Then of course I am using more revs to regain the speed.
Neither of my cars with CC do this,one an auto (BM sorry) and the manual a Skoda, looked in the book and this is what it's meant to do.
Just spoils the otherwise relaxing drive with the CC on,just saying.

 

[Hils and Glenns]

Always use CC and get 29 mpg occasionally more on 3lt Hymer manual.

 

[Zigisla]

Always use CC and get 29 mpg occasionally more on 3lt Hymer manual.

Cannot give that a like. @Jim we need a jealous button.

 

[glenn2926]

Cc is also very good when you want change drivers without stopping..

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[Baldeagle7470]

Always use CC and get 29 mpg occasionally more on 3lt Hymer manual.

Having said the above getting 25mpg and just starting to loosen up at 4,000 Kms so hoping for a little more,blimey does it go well,no wonder trannies were always used by robbers!!

 

[Lenny HB]

Having said the above getting 25mpg and just starting to loosen up at 4,000 Kms so hoping for a little more,blimey does it go well,no wonder trannies were always used by robbers!!

Fiat don't consider engine run in until 15000 miles. noticed my Comformatic ox working much better since getting to 140000 miles.

 

[StitchesnFluff]

Fiat don't consider engine run in until 15000 miles. noticed my Comformatic ox working much better since getting to 140000 miles.

And they don't recommend first service till 30,000

 

[mjltigger]

Sadly not for me prefer to being in control ,i always find using CC takes too much control away from ,when i feel i need to reduce speed at junctions ,bends ect .When driving we all anticipate what the driver in the front or coming up the rear is going to do and with my foot on the accelerator ,again feel i am ready to react quickly. Like all of us i have done long stretches in Europe ect and always been comfortable with my foot on pedal.I know lots swear by then and to them i say enjoy.lol

Interestingly for the same reason I find cruise safer. If I'm on cruise I always cover the brake so I am a fraction of a second ahead when it comes to an emergency.

 

[StitchesnFluff]

Interestingly for the same reason I find cruise safer. If I'm on cruise I always cover the brake so I am a fraction of a second ahead when it comes to an emergency.

You may read the road ahead better whilst using cruise?

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[funflair]

I don't really see a connection between CC or not vs MPG, CC is for maintaining a speed when you want to give your foot a rest, when manual driving is required just click it off and take over. When you drive over Spain towards the South coast there are 100's of miles of straight roads with no traffic that just require a steady speed CC is a godsend.

Martin

 

[gus-lopez]

I was in the book "Cola cowboys" .

I've still got that somewhere.Coca- cola cowboys wasn't it ?

Fiat don't consider engine run in until 15000 miles. noticed my Comformatic ox working much better since getting to 140000 miles.

I'd have thought it was doing well at 140k .

No ,just looked . Why I thought it was coca-cola I've no idea.lol

 

[ShiftZZ]

I have CC on my car and I use it when on motorways it does improve my mpg, essential in roadworks with speed restrictions set, ignore, enjoy. job done..

 

[Snowbird]

I've still got that somewhere.Coca- cola cowboys wasn't it ?


I'd have thought it was doing well at 140k .

No ,just looked . Why I thought it was coca-cola I've no idea.lol

Like Coca-Cola we could be found just about anywhere on the planet during the 80s. It was not because we drank the stuff . My wife at the time thought it was because we only drank Coca-Cola, then the BBC made a film about Astran and the Middle East run and burst my bubble. Unfortunately the marriage did not last long after that.

 

[buttons]

I have just driven up the M1 from junction 1 to 5. I set my cruise at 80mph and set my watch to buzz me in ten mins just in case I nodded off. Fantastic driving early on a Saturday morning.

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[androidGB]

Like Coca-Cola we could be found just about anywhere on the planet during the 80s. It was not because we drank the stuff . My wife at the time thought it was because we only drank Coca-Cola, then the BBC made a film about Astran and the Middle East run and burst my bubble. Unfortunately the marriage did not last long after that.

 

[Lenny HB]

I'd have thought it was doing well at 140k .l

Come own up who added the extra "0"?

 

[Zigisla]

Thanks to all who replied re Fuel Economy side of using CC. I used mine all weekend and to be perfectly honest I have to agree with the majority – again!! , it didn’t seem to make much of a difference in the fuel, so where I got my original thought from Heaven only knows. On the same run earlier, I started full and ended just over 3/4 and this weekend, I had the same ish left in the tank. So clearly not too much to be concerned with. I have always used it for roads with reduced speed limits on them so that the Sat Nav doesn’t keep bleeping at me - such an annoying sound!! . As for using CC to reduce fatigue or ease of driving doesn’t make any odds to me as still not driven long enough in the UK to ever get a straight flat road. Good piece of advice about manually increasing speed prior to a hill and having to change down fewer times now, so thanks to who ever gave me that - @buttons I think. It will obviously come into its own when I venture abroad to a more MH friendly driving Country.
Just recovered the trip read out and I’m up to 23 MPH woohoo!!

Thanks again to you all.

 

[androidGB]

I don't think you can deduce much by looking at the fuel gauge, because they are inherently very inaccurate. Any change is going to be very small, and the only way you can really tell is over

a number " fill to the brim" refuellings.


Andrew

 

[StitchesnFluff]

Mpg can be affected by the slightest thing, when we travel north to Cumbria we get better fuel economy than the return journey, probably because of the wind direction!

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