Thread: Puma 4000km round trip from Sydney

Hi Gav,
Sounds like a great trip - good to hear the Puma looked after you well.
I average just a fraction under 10L/100km, but drive with a pretty light foot.
Guess the difference is probably the rooftop accessories you carry and the touring load.
Cheers,
Firefish

Sounds great,
Mungo is well worth visiting. ,

whats that bag on your spare wheel ??

Originally Posted by goingbush

Sounds great,
Mungo is well worth visiting. ,

whats that bag on your spare wheel ??

Hi Mate
I think at this point in the trip it was just rubbish and maybe my walking boots.

Gav, you mean to say that heap of junk TDci, with the lousy dif, crap gear box, and terrible build quality didn't **** itself 10klm down the road from home.

amazing...who would have thought

did you coast mostly on 100 or 110 for those figures. My guess is 100, though not bad I always assumed a TDCi would be more economical than the older motors. I seem to only get 11 to 11.5 out of mine.

good on you mate, hope to see a trip report show soon.

Over Christmas/New Year we traveled from Sydney to Adelaide via the various coast roads (as best as possible), then onto the Flinders Ranges then took a more direct route home. In total was 5014kms. Hit about 12000kms in total on the 2011 Puma when we returned. Did not have a single problem. It is a machine!!!

Thanks for the post.

Next week I take off an estimated 7,000km round trip to South Australia in my Puma.....

at Xmas we did a 5000km trip to NSW high country and back with plenty of 4x4ing in the middle with no problem.
Very soon we have a 6000km ish trip into the desert and back, also expecting no problems.

Originally Posted by newhue

Gav, you mean to say that heap of junk TDci, with the lousy dif, crap gear box, and terrible build quality didn't **** itself 10klm down the road from home.

amazing...who would have thought

did you coast mostly on 100 or 110 for those figures. My guess is 100, though not bad I always assumed a TDCi would be more economical than the older motors. I seem to only get 11 to 11.5 out of mine.

good on you mate, hope to see a trip report show soon.

Yep,amazing,lucky you didn't have to bleed the fuel system or have the electdickery play up or ZZZZZZZZZZzzzzz.I'm off to Broome tommorow,don't know how I'll make it without an isuzzu,LT95,Sals rear,Cooper tyres,Waeco,hold on,I need BFG tyres,Engal Pat