Thread: Good economy towing my Coromal 505Pioneer XC

2 great things to chinks at happy hour great economy and bugs that won’t stick to the front of ya van 🥃

That’s great Phillip.

What sized tyres do you have? I assume not overly tall?

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I tow this Royal Flair full height 19 ft van 180 ball weight 2600 tare standard 90 litre tank TD5 manual with a small remap from Shack and I will get consistently 600kms per tank..slightly less with a headwind...I haven't worked out exact figures but am happy with consumption...and power🙂

The manuals are always better on fuel from what I've seen.

Recently we had a 110 on holiday, towed a heavy camper, did some 4wding and other messing around, and got a bit over 12 litres per hundred, I was quite surprised, I was expecting about 14.

Towing a 2.6 tonne caravan and getting about 15 per hundred is quite good.

3-ish tonnes behind most cars at the speed limit will see about 17 - 19 per hundred in my experience.

The humble TD5 is still punching above it's weight!

D2 TD5 are generally pretty good on fuel.
I remember getting high 8’s in the last one we had,a D2a,not towing,but loaded,on run,back from a Cape trip.
We were travelling just under the speed limit as we were stuck behind a number of vehicles towing large vans.

Ours was virtually stock,5 seater,snorkle and bar.
Certainly better fuel burn than I ever saw in the D4.
And a larger tank,I could get over 90L in it when it was dead empty.
Around 76L was the max I ever got into the D4 which was a PITA.

The d2s are not at all bad on fuel, I've not worked mine out for a long time but it goes a long way on a tank. It gets all the way to Melbourne from home with 1/4 a tank leftwhen I've done that trip, and towing would be top up once. (Horse float)
I appreciate how good it is with current prices but also because means more time between having to building my wheelchair to fuel up (I run out of puff doing the wheelchair build so fuel is one time I hate wasting the energy to just roll into the servo) so doing that errand less is nice

Originally Posted by Epic_Dragon

The d2s are not at all bad on fuel, I've not worked mine out for a long time but it goes a long way on a tank. It gets all the way to Melbourne from home with 1/4 a tank leftwhen I've done that trip, and towing would be top up once. (Horse float)
I appreciate how good it is with current prices but also because means more time between having to building my wheelchair to fuel up (I run out of puff doing the wheelchair build so fuel is one time I hate wasting the energy to just roll into the servo) so doing that errand less is nice

Go to Cosco, cheapest fuel and you pay at the pump.

Originally Posted by V8Ian

Go to Cosco, cheapest fuel and you pay at the pump.

So the pumps take cash and give change??