Whats your PUMA fuel economy like

[Azza2013110]

Just a quick question.

Interested in the comparison.

Im at 10.6lt/100. 650km to a tank.

I have a 2.2ltr 110. intercooler, exhaust, Remap, and a disabled EGR.

[lightwing]

My 09 2.4 gets at best 8.4/100 and worst 10.5/100.
It is re mapped and the EGR is disabled.
Cruising at the speed limit gets a tad under 10/100.

[defender_i_hardly_know_er]

Just a quick question.

Interested in the comparison.

Im at 10.6lt/100. 650km to a tank.

I have a 2.2ltr 110. intercooler, exhaust, Remap, and a disabled EGR.

Where'd you get the remap/EGR done?

[LoveB]

Azza, who did your exhaust and EGR? could I please have a listen when I'm in town? I'm thinking of doing mine soon

[Azza2013110]

Where'd you get the remap/EGR done?

Bruce Davis from Davis Performance have done the re-map. At the moment the EGR is just unplugged but it is going in next week to get the EGR fault codes tuned out.

[Azza2013110]

Azza, who did your exhaust and EGR? could I please have a listen when I'm in town? I'm thinking of doing mine soon

Exhaust was done as a custom 1 off from Liverpool exhaust, they have done all of my cars and always will. Chevy and his old man are fantastic and they love it when its the first one they have done.
3" exhaust and there is no noise or drone, sounds the same as standard as far as i can tell. lol
PM me when your around and have a listen if you want to.

[chook73]

Just a quick question.

Interested in the comparison.

Im at 10.6lt/100. 650km to a tank.

I have a 2.2ltr 110. intercooler, exhaust, Remap, and a disabled EGR.

It is one thing to compare fuel economy however there are many factors that need to be taken into consideration, tyre size and pressures, vehicle load, roof racks or not, driving conditions (city or country) and so on.

I range between 12.5 and 14lt/100 but that is on 33's, up to 180lt of fuel and 60lt of water, roof racks and I run comparatively low pressures on the road for a vehicle that weighs in at 3.2t and is set up for touring....... oh and that is on a 2.4lt, remapped with larger intercooler, radiator, etc and so on....

[Azza2013110]

It is one thing to compare fuel economy however there are many factors that need to be taken into consideration, tyre size and pressures, vehicle load, roof racks or not, driving conditions (city or country) and so on.

I range between 12.5 and 14lt/100 but that is on 33's, up to 180lt of fuel and 60lt of water, roof racks and I run comparatively low pressures on the road for a vehicle that weighs in at 3.2t and is set up for touring....... oh and that is on a 2.4lt, remapped with larger intercooler, radiator, etc and so on....

I understand that which is why i listed some of the mods that would effect my fuel economy to others Iain.

What size tyres are you running now? You had 35s with the portals.
Great read in your posts.

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[chook73]

I understand that which is why i listed some of the mods that would effect my fuel economy to others Iain.

What size tyres are you running now? You had 35s with the portals.
Great read in your posts.

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Thanks Azza, I am running 285/75R16, the 35's were just a bit large for touring IMHO.....

[EastFreo]

I am getting just over 10lt/100km. Pretty stock 2014 110 on cross contacts. Last trip got 10.3 but I was going fairly fast - ie 115kph! My wife laughs that we now cruise at 100 to 105 nowadays!

[tcf]

That's sounding more like it to me, Chook.

I just got back from 4600km round trip - Geelong to Fraser Island and back - with the following figures

4598km
533L
= 11.6 L/100km.

That is a 2.4L 110, 235/85R16 Cooper ST Maxx, roof rack + awning, moderately loaded with fridge, batteries, clothes, supplies (but no camping gear), doing 110km/h most way with a few solid days on the beaches of Rainbow Beach and Fraser Island.

I am a realist and was pretty happy with those figures. Would love to get a remap mainly to turn off the EGR for longevity reasons. Followed by upgraded intercooler etc.

Around town these figures blow out to 14 or so L/100km, however.

Cheers

Tim.

[fatman]

Never under 12 ltr/100 klms(maybe 11.2 once,up to 17-18 on heavy and slow off-roading)
Never under 110 klms speed on highway.
Never under 2.7 tonnes weight.
Never without the puma even with heavy city traffic so average is mixed driving.
2.4 tuned,big intercooler,decated,external roll cage,lifted,tyres from 32's to 34's,etc
Almost 100k klms now-only last 20 in my hands.
PS
Same applied for my disco td5.
Cheers.

[EastFreo]

Never under 12 ltr/100 klms(maybe 11.2 once,up to 17-18 on heavy and slow off-roading)
Never under 110 klms speed on highway.
Never under 2.7 tonnes weight.
Never without the puma even with heavy city traffic so average is mixed driving.
2.4 tuned,big intercooler,decated,external roll cage,lifted,tyres from 32's to 34's,etc
Almost 100k klms now-only last 20 in my hands.
PS
Same applied for my disco td5.
Cheers.

Noticed your location. What is impressive is driving a Defender in Athens! We had a family holiday to Greece a few years ago and drove from Athens to the Pelopannes. Very different to Western Australia!

[malsgoing130]

12 to 16l/100. Standard contis with full length roof rack bull bar winch, water tank etc. worst figures are for towing camper tailer. It's a 2.4 Ali sport intercooler and bas remap.
In January got back from a trip to Esperance using our other car 120 series prado 3.0 diesel kz and was using 24 l/100 towing the same camper trailer at the same speeds. Stopped to see if I had a fuel leak[emoji15]

My old 130 Tdi used no fuel in comparison to these new engines. She had a pump tweak and that's about all could still maintain 110km/h and could not hear the wife talk. Sorry I sold it really[emoji56]

[newhue]

Im with chook.
Never made the 10.5 or even close, and that was before a very similar set up to chooks. Weight, tyre size, mods.

[alien]

Last trip we where getting 14/100 for most of it(450/tank)
2.2 with no power modifications towing a off road van and tyres on 28psi on the dirt.
Roof rack had 2 tyre carcases and steel bull bar, draws etc..
Weighed in at 4.050 tons all up doing 100Km/h black top and @60Km/h dirt.


Another Puma with us towing a No5 trailer was doing very similar figures.

[DefenderSte]

My 2008 130 twin cab roughly 676km per tank at around 100km.

Thats carrying bull bar,winch,roof rack and rear canopy........:D

Im happy with that......:D:D:D

[PAT303]

To put all that into perspective,owners of other makes are happy to get our figures driving unloaded.My stock 2.4 returned 11.9 towing our camper two weeks ago running 265/75/16's at 100-110. Pat

[newhue]

Yeh not sure about that Pat. Bloke at work got 8.8lt/100 in his 4x4 triton. Standard truck, HT tires, 4 people, back full of suitcases under a fibreglass canopy on the black top. He tows a drag car around the joint and says he doesn't crack 11. My mate with a Challenger tows a 1.5T trailer, has mud tires, same motor and reckons he doesn't go under 12. It's all hear say in some ways.
To me it is what it is...you pay it or don't go.

[PAT303]

The DiD motor is very under rated IMHO,the D4D series will never get near those figures. Pat

[DiscoMick]

Averaged right on 10 l/100kms driving to Sydney and back recently. Motorway speeds, except at roadworks. Steinbauer chip, but standard suspension and original tyres.

[Wolfman_TWP]

I'm getting between 9.4-10.3L/100km. All standard (Nothing changed from original). This is normal traffic & motor way speeds.. (And the litre usage is seems to be getting better. (As in using less fuel). Just have 6500K on the clock at the moment)

Will be going off road this weekend... Will see what it does then..

Wolf

[jasonelsa@bigpond.com]

I am getting just over 10lt/100km. Pretty stock 2014 110 on cross contacts. Last trip got 10.3 but I was going fairly fast - ie 115kph! My wife laughs that we now cruise at 100 to 105 nowadays!
My fuel light comes on at around the 560km mark from full. Mine is a 2013 110 on MTR's with full rack, awning etc. and I tend to drive with purpose!

[Simon]

Around Sydney I was getting about 11. We left in Feb and have since done 15000km, all towing and as much off-road as the wife will let me (but fair to say most is bitumen) - in that time best has been 12.24, worst 18.42 (over Hotham, Dargo High Plains), normally 13 to 14. 90km/hr seems to be the best compromise between economy and arriving anywhere at a sensible time

[cal415]

Interesting to see these figures, ive always watched my fuel usage over the life of my puma, things that made the biggest differences to mine fuel economy wise was removing the canopy canvas when it was stock, it made considerable difference around 1-2l /100km difference to the same type of driving.

After i put the 33s and ally canopy on my fuel usage went up considerably, but i remapped it and upgraded the IC around the same time so the fuel usage after mods and remap was on par with what it was when the vehicle was stock.

Recently i changed the turbo for an alive high flow billet jobby, removed the cat and added a bigger radiator, power wise its a very different truck to drive, but economy wise its improved again.. i suspect the economy side of things it more to do with the decat then it is the turbo/map.

With the new turbo other mods i find if i drive it fairly hard it tends to drink more then before but for normal driving its better then it was, ive just came back from a 14,000km trip to darwin heavily loaded a towing a fairly heavy camper trailer and kept a close eye on fuel use, seeing around 16-17l per 100km at the worst, this was driving in outback NSW into a strong headwind and maintaining speeds around 120kph, the guy who was travelling with me in a v6 prado saw usage around 23L /100km in the same conditions but without a trailer.

Most of the trip i was using around 12-13L /100km, even on a stretch of the unrestricted speed roads i was maintaining around 130kph and seeing around 14L /100km. I also noticed better economy driving in the cooler parts of the day and into the night, while there wasnt a huge change it was certainly noticeable to the point it would have saved me many litres of fuel over the course of 14,000km


Driving home from Brisbane to Newcastle i averaged 12.2L per 100km, It was nice to make the whole trip on a single tank for a change, while this is no where as good as some of the other figures people have here, im pretty happy with it considering my 130 is one big fat vehicle as is my Kimberly camper when its all loaded up.

[dj2024]

Best - around 9.5/100 (stock everything, mostly cruising in 6th gear)
Worst - about 20/100 (lots of low range, alpine diesel). Stopped to check if a stick had poked a hole in the tank!


Back to normal on the highway run home - 11.5/100 at 110kph. With roof rack, awning, winch bar/winch and plenty of camping gear in the back.

[Avion8]

Mine is 0/100 kms. But it hasn't been delivered yet!

[Is Vic There]

Mine is 0/100 kms. But it hasn't been delivered yet!


Same here, quite economical at the moment!

[CS78]

MY15 110 with around 3000km on the clock now, full length roof rack, awning on the side, bull bar and snorkel been averaging around 10.9l/100km and driving it with purpose where possible.

[NT5224]

Hector our stock 2012 110 ute never gets better than about 14l/100km: But that's with his external roll cage and that big tent canopy flapping on the back- I call it 'the parachute'...

[LoveB]

wonder how bad mine will get with an external cage

[Iain_B]

On a normal home-work-home crawl up to Brisbane and some suburban driving , I would average 10lt/100km with the OEM size tyres on it.

Recently, on a 6000km trip Brisbane / Daintree/Lawn Hill / Rockhampton/Brisbane we averaged 14.5lt/100km, that was fully loaded ( 3.2tons), roof top tent, 255/85 tyres and keeping to the speed limits on GPS 100-110kph (or just a bit over on the wide open roads) .

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We were helped a lot on the way to Daintree by a strong tailwind - made it easy to hold 115kph. Coming home we have a strong headwind for the section from Mt Isa to Rockhamptom which made it not so easy to hold 115kph.

I have BAS remap, Alisport Intercooler and no centre muffler, so that would help combat the extra weight/wind resistance etc.

[JayBoRover]

I've just done my first open road run since installing the BAS2 re-map and Alloysport intercooler upgrade.
Firstly I can't believe the acceleration to 110kph is in the same vehicle:eek:! The thing rockets!
Secondly, it looks like my fuel consumption has decreased. I'll wait until I've emptied all three tanks (2 sill tanks plus the main) and refilled again, for a direct comparison to previous results but, early indications are looking good. My consumption is generally about 11.6 lt/100km for a range of about 1,200 kms to the fuel light. (I run with an ARB RTT all the time - drops to around 10.6 without it but still with the roof rack).

Unfortunately (or fortunately depending on your point of view) it will take a while for me to get to the empty point as I ride my bicycle so (250 - 350km per week avg) much the D90 gets little use - I only fill it up maybe 1/2 dozen (Kiwi speak for 6;)) times per year! (Plus my S2a gets a run fairly regularly - it gets LPG filled up maybe twice a year, but the two petrol tanks never get filled and rarely get used).