Thread: V8 or TD5

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.

Cheers

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.

Cheers