Agreed. Getting such mileage at cities like Pune, Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore is next to impossible.
I get around 19 on highways. But in city, it drastically drops to 11-13 kmpl. ac 100% on.There's so much traffic. You can hardly reach 4th gear. Getting high FE in such stop n go, and stop situations is very difficult.
I get around 19 on highways. But in city, it drastically drops to 11-13 kmpl. ac 100% on.There's so much traffic. You can hardly reach 4th gear. Getting high FE in such stop n go, and stop situations is very difficult.
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I remove my shoes once inside the car and wear my light bathroom rubber slippers when I drive as I did once when my foot was hurt and swollen, I saw the difference of pressure that is put on the accelerator, even at traffic signals and slow moving traffic keep a little distance between the front vehicle and yours and don't ride the clutch and the torque of Swift diesel is enough to take you through without your foot on the accelerator (I wish we had a dead pedal). Also I am very particular about maintaining the right tyre pressure, I usually travel to my in laws place that's 750 kms from Pune, I again start early at 4am and control my revving if I want a good mileage, I usually don't cross over 80kmph which is safe considering the haphazard single lane highway takes a bit of time at that speed but mileage results are amazing & seriously nowadays its not at all safe to go above 80kmph on our highways due to lack of safety features like air-bags & ABS, even if you have these you never know when a two wheeler / an animal might come out of nowhere on the highways which is real scary. I'm also amazed but the figures are true and I hope they continue the same touch-wood. Even last year when my work location was different used to travel in traffic the figures were somewhere around 17-18kmpl. Also I keep switching off the A/C intermittently while in 1st-2nd-3rd gear to avoid load on the engine as the A/C effect lasts for about 1.5mins after you switch off the A/C. All this might sound a bit strange and too much for you guys but I followed this religiously for 2-3 weeks and results were awesome. And don't ask about my bike its an awesome bike don't know why LML didn't market it, touch-wood till date for the past 11ys of ownership I have just changed the speedometer cables that conk off every now and then, the 100K+ kms that I have clocked till now it still wears the original tyres too, really love this bike which has a lot of plus points maybe a different thread would be required for the same.![[;)]](https://www.theautomotiveindia.com/forums/images/smilies/Wink.gif "Wink [;)]")
, earlier before marriage I used to just swipe my card and spend recklessly a lot and later realised bank balance is zero, now I'm rebuilding everything, now its a different scenario where salaries have increased but the cost of living has increased 3 times, so need to save. And I guess the figures I get is correct because the amount that goes out of my wallet at the end of the month for the fuel is exactly proportionate to the amount of travel at the end of the day that's what matters.![[sleep]](https://www.theautomotiveindia.com/forums/images/smilies/Sleep.gif "Sleep [sleep]")
that's true but the problem is if you are having heat waves blowing outside to bake you up then you don't have any choice left but to sit in your car only and that too with AC.![[anger]](https://www.theautomotiveindia.com/forums/images/smilies/Anger.gif "Anger [anger]")
