How many kms has your D1 done?

**BathurstTom** · 13th March 2018, 06:17 PM

Originally Posted by Spel1

My D1 odometer, compared to GPS trip meter, typically reads about 5% under (speedo is only about 1km off at 100kph though). Looking at my todays odo reading of 445200ish, actual kms on the thing is closer to approx 467400. Anyone else have this kind of variance?

Sorry for resurrecting and old thread, but I was doing some maths regarding the fuel economy of my '96 Tdi manual and I thought that it was using a little too much fuel. This is after removing a large alloy roof rack. It certainly improves the performance (I never thought that I would use that word in relation the the trusty tdi

) and it seemed to be more economical, but at the bowser it used 71 litres for 634 kilometres, so I was somewhat disappointed. But I then checked the odometer, which was now reading 110 km. I checked the distance on google which listed it as 116, plus I had a short trip of about a km, which should have been about 117 km on the odometer. Working this out and applying it to the trip distance of 634km, it means that I am using about 10.5 ltr per 100 km, which considering the road, isn't too bad. It also means the the odometer distance of 634 should have read about 674, a discrepancy of about 6 - 6.5%. I think the speedo is about right as every time I go through a speed trap, I seem to be right on the speed indicated.

Tom

P.S. my disco has 294K km.

**Young Angus** · 13th March 2018, 06:34 PM

Not sure if I ever answered this one in the past, but mine is a young 186k KMs and loving life!

**AK83** · 13th March 2018, 07:10 PM

Originally Posted by Young Angus

Not sure if I ever answered this one in the past, but mine is a young 186k KMs and loving life!

A mere toddler in the grand scheme of things.

I bought mine with 327K Ks, and it now has 371K Ks on it.
I can't believe how tight it still is in terms of body structure.

Originally Posted by BathurstTom

.... it means that I am using about 10.5 ltr per 100 km, which considering the road, isn't too bad. It also means the the odometer distance of 634 should have read about 674, a discrepancy of about 6 - 6.5%. I think the speedo is about right as every time I go through a speed trap, I seem to be right on the speed indicated.

Tom

P.S. my disco has 294K km.

My odometer has a similar discrepancy, I calculated it out to 8%(running 255/70 16s). Speedo reading is smack bang on the money through the speed traps and GPS .. just the odo is out on mine.

I generally get about 9-9.5 km/lt after I fitted the slimline(flat) alloy roof rack.
Keep telling myself to remove it and gain back the 1 or so km/lt gain in fuel use I lost since fitting ... but I'm a total slacker sometimes

My best ever fuel economy was 11.5km/l(8.5-ish l/100) and my worst has been 8.5km/lt(12-ish l/100) .. but I was mucking about with fuelling in the IP to get a good balance between power/torque at 2000RPM(to hold 90-ish km/hr on my test hill) and economy and exhaust temperature.

**donh54** · 13th March 2018, 07:17 PM

Without going outside to check, it's about 245K (the D2 is 310K)

**Morry948** · 14th March 2018, 10:09 AM

92 Tdi200

504,000km...still sweet as new

**Rick1970** · 14th March 2018, 11:48 AM

93 200tdi 194k
93 3.5 v8. 305k

**chillman** · 14th March 2018, 01:30 PM

98 v8 235k young

**DiscoClax** · 14th March 2018, 10:01 PM

Spring chicken at a smidge under 390k

**edddo** · 15th March 2018, 03:36 PM

Originally Posted by edddo

257k
..about half it's expected life based on the above.

Now up to 293k and going very well.

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