Molandme

So it seems my mpg is what I can expect. I'm seriously regretting changing the car now as all I'm saving (which was the object of the exercise) is £100 a year on road tax. Better than nothing, I suppose, but not what i was hoping for. Hey ho, you live and learn. Thanks for all the responses. Nora

On motorways I do anything between 60 and 70 but generally I do try to stick to the speed limit - not because I'm a goody goody but I got caught a couple of years ago and can't afford to get caught again now I've retired! I'm used to towing a caravan and, recently, driving a campervan so don't tend to go so mad and accelerate fast and brake hard these days. My car has the long fuel gauge down the left hand side with the trip meter at the top and the miles remaining at the bottom. I do find that miles remaining figure very off-putting and do my best to ignore it and just look at the gauge. Unfortunately the part of the computer that tells you your mpg isn't working, although everything else seems to be, so I've been working out my mpg the old fashioned way. Nora

My Peugeot returned a lot better mpg than the figures claimed, but I had a Peugeot 206 before that which did exactly what they claimed. Obviously, it was a much smaller engine but I did get 62 out of that. I wouldn't mind only it was one of the main reasons I bought the car. :( Nora

At the end of February I bought a 57-reg (early 2008) C4 VTr+ diesel automatic. In the technical data for my car in to the handbook (it appears to be the electronic gearbox system because it definitely isn't the other auto mentioned), the fuel consumption should be around 48.7 urban, 74.3 extra urban and 62.8 mixed. I am well aware that this isn't set in stone and all hinges on the road conditions, journeys made, driving style etc. but I am very disappointed in what I've been getting. I went to Essex and back twice, approximately 500 miles round trip, and only got around 55 mpg. I would have expected considerably higher than this for a journey made almost entirely on motorways and dual carriageways. My mpg for the last couple of weeks has averaged out at 45. While I admit that quite a lot of that is just around locally, I have done some reasonable journeys on good roads. I previously had a 2001 Peugeot 406 which returned around 57 mpg on the Essex run, cost me £140 a year to tax, as opposed to £30 for the C4, and was 13 years old. As I've recently retired, I thought I'd get a slightly smaller, newer, car with lower running costs. Not taking into account what the C4 has cost me to buy, I'm very disappointed with the mpg as it really isn't much different to what I was getting from the Peugeot so I'm actually only saving £110 a year on the road tax. I was hoping to get much better mpg than I have been getting and am seriously considering changing the car again. What mpg do other people get? Nora

Thanks for the welcome. I gave up the caravan about three years ago. I'm in a club for campervan owners, as we used to have one, so decided to join them. I've got a Talbot campervan and the club is for Renault owners so I'm staying with the French theme! I do sometimes miss the caravan when I want to go out for the day but I didn't really enjoy towing. Nora

Thanks. I did think of taking the old one apart and trying to put it in the new one given to me by the dealer - but decided to leave well alone, at least this way I have two useable keys! Nora

That's interesting, paul.h. I recently bought a C4 which only had one remote key. The dealer gave me an uncut key and the money to have another one cut but he did say that it wouldn't work as a remote because it had no chip. The original key was a bit "floppy" so I thought I'd prefer to keep that as a spare and buy a new remote. I spoke to several people before I contacted out local Citroen dealer and nobody suggested that I could just swap over the "innerds". Anyway, in response to the original post, the replacement key I bought from the dealter cost me £104 and then it cost me another £48 to have it coded. For that £48 I could have had any number of keys coded though. Just shows how they vary from place to place. I hope the OP has got his new key sorted by now. Nora

Hi, I'm Nora and I've recently purchased a 2008 C4 VTR+ automatic. It's probably about the 10th Citroen that I've owned, either on my own or with my husband, over the years. We started off with a GS back in the late 70s/early 80s and had a beautiful Reflex at one point which we bought new. I'm a dedicated Citroen fan, although I've owned a Peugeot 406 for the last 8 years which we bought to tow a caravan. I have one or two queries which I'm hoping I can get help with via this forum, so I'll go and have a browse round. Look forward to chatting to some of you soon. Nora