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As a matter of interest I just did some highway work with GVM - driver, 4 passengers, utterly loaded for camping (literally every space in the rear (with steel cage) full to the roof including fridge, LPG bottles, AGM battery etc and 2 steel frame Coleman instant up touring tents on the roof alongwith camping chairs (huge wind resistance). I have a steel bullbar and sliders, alloy roof rack, and a fair bit of extra stuff. Recorded on fill up bang on 14 litres per 100k, doing 110 most of the time and a high climb up a range. Now doing 90kph constant that would drop to about 12.5-13 l per 100k with that load - wind resistance is a big factor at the speed I was doing. My truck has a 2 inch lift also which effects economy as does the 31 inch light truck tyres with greater footprint and (and much greater) weight than stockers.
Offroad doing low range 1-2 gear for several hours and climbing to 3000 feet and back (and again fully laden per the above list) - 22l per 100k. Kind of funny because even at this most unecocomical of travelling speeds it is still chewing less than a 100 series LC petrol tooling about town...
Not bad from a 4.6 V8 with that load.
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So different options what I can do apparently, doesn't make it easier for me though. :p
What concerns me the most is the range, that is way to low at the moment for what I'm planning to do with the car.
Small recap:
- Keep my Disco V8 MY2000 and put in a long range tank, that would be a 150l one and would make that I have the same range as a standard TD5. A tank cost me 1400 dollars without install... Worth it?
- Buy a Disco TD5 MY 03 or 04. Built everything that I have on my V8 over on the TD5, make the V8 standard and sell it. Worth it?
- Sell the Disco V8 as is and buy a diesel Defender? What engine should I go for on that one?
Thanks already!
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Mate you have to do the sums and also take into account that a lot of D2's have been abused and have been let go in many areas including the chassis.
Also if you put in a Brown and Davis 142 long range tank you will get, in a fully laden vehicle reading for touring, better range than a fully laden TD5 with stock tank...My understanding is that a lifted TD5 with roof rack and roof tent or similar size things on it, bull bar and absolutely maxed out in the storage department, 2 batteries etc, is probably only getting on the highway about 3 litres per 100k better than a V8. So that is about 22% worse economy in such conditions compared to the TD5. Unladen is a different story with non chipped TD5's on pretty stock vehicles getting much better economy than the V8.
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