Thread: Puma fuel economy

Yeah I can almost set my watch to my 10.5/11 ltrs per 100km... I also don't get bogged with all that extra weight...

13-15ltrs per 100km full load 13ft boat behind. I did 530km before the light came on going north a couple of months ago but the load was way up.

Allan

On a long trip recently wit ha lot of flat roads and fully loaded Driving just under 100km an hour mate and I worked out it used 10L per 100km except for the bit before and after Hillston it did over 10 litres on that bit....more hills.

When actually on the property I did aproximately 400km just crawling around looking for feral pigs no more than 40km and often 20km or 30km an hour unloaded and it was amazing on fuel somewhere between 6 and 6.5 litres. It was also brilliant off road.

Last July, on my Simpson desert trip I travelled just under 9000k's and averaged 13L/100k's.

PUMA was fully loaded and had roofrack on as well.

No complaints...

Unladen with BAS remap I once got 9.5l/100km. Usually I get 10l/100km.

Fully laden, on a 6000km trip to Namibia we got 10.4l/100km running the standard map with EGR-shut.

Excellent figures Nak's,

I didn't have my BAS map installed back when I did the desert trip and haven’t had the map installed long enough to work out fuel consumption figures, yet.

cheers

Originally Posted by n plus one

So, I normally get somewhere between 13l/100km and 14l/100km out of my Puma.

She's normally got a bit of gear on board (storage drawers filled with camping and recovery gear), mud tyres and I often have a rooftop tent (Maggiolina) fitted.

Figured that this wasn't great - not as good as some others report - but not shockingly bad either.

Anywho, long story short, the other day I followed a guy in another Puma down some country roads and then maintained the same driving style when he turned left and I turned right and headed onto the highway.

Turns out his driving style returns 10.5l/100km in my fully laden truck..

Moral of the story: if your Puma's economy ain't what you think it should be - it's proabably your fault.

So what's "his" driving style and what's your (old) driving style that's worth a 3 L/100 or 20% improvement?

Tony

Originally Posted by TonyC

So what's "his" driving style and what's your (old) driving style that's worth a 3 L/100 or 20% improvement?

Tony

His style is/was 90-100kmh slowing slightly on the hills, easing back up to speed on the straights, etc.

My style is foot-to-the-floor, 120kmh, overtake anything I can, chase and pass cars on windy roads, etc

Can't for the life of me see why they would result in such different fuel figures...