Thread: Awesome

Originally Posted by Ean Austral

Gday All,

Just drove down to Victor Harbour towing the camper trailer, and fueled up only once in Alice springs.

Had the D3 and it has 190ltrs with the 2 tanks, plus carried 40ltrs on the trailer, which I didnt really need.
Darwin - Alice 175ltrs
Alice -Victor Harbour 180ltrs

Sat on 110km/h most of the way.

Came down with a friend towing a 18ft pop-top van with a 150 prado, who averaged 19ltr/100kms.. needless to say how ****ed off he was when he had to keep stopping for fuel.

He is taking the Prado back to toyota to find out why it used so much fuel, as it only has 30,000ks on it and he is not happy with those figures.

Lovin the D3

Cheers Ean

A very good mate took his brand new 2011 prado back to the Toyota dealership around the corner from home. He through the keys at them and demanded his 2008 prado to be given back. His economy was significantly worse, the car was slower, and on two occasions it would not start. Unfortunately for him the old one went to a new home.

From what I have heard this is not an isolated case.

Oh what a feeling!

diesel i presume?

Lucky he didn't get a petrol

Originally Posted by scarry

diesel i presume?

Lucky he didn't get a petrol

Yep D4-D 3.0l deisel..

Was surprised myself to see how bad it was. He also blew a 18'tyre and had transmission problems, so the toyota wasn't in the good books.

Cheers Ean

According to my trip computer I am currently getting 13L/100 out of my 05 TDV6. I don't thrash it at all so I would love to know how everyone achieves these fantastic fuel figures they keep reporting. Towing a 2.5T van it gets around 22L/100. EGR has been modded, it hasn't been chipped and the MAF & MAP sensors have cleaned. The tyres of course are MTZ but I think they would account for an extra 2L/100.

Gee awesome fuel economy by the D3 and with such a large capacity your range is brilliant. As for the Prado very ordinary , but sounds like run of the mill for one of them towing, as my 2003 manual, 3 litre turbo Hi-Lux gets down as low as 5 kays per litre when towing a series Landy.It will be interesting to see how the Prado goes towing back up "the hill" to Darwin if it's economy was that poor coming down hill.

Cheers, Mick

Originally Posted by Mike&Loz

According to my trip computer I am currently getting 13L/100 out of my 05 TDV6. I don't thrash it at all so I would love to know how everyone achieves these fantastic fuel figures they keep reporting. Towing a 2.5T van it gets around 22L/100. EGR has been modded, it hasn't been chipped and the MAF & MAP sensors have cleaned. The tyres of course are MTZ but I think they would account for an extra 2L/100.

I found that if I did between 80-90km/h the car would hunt between 5th & 6th gear and rev between 1700 & 2300 rpm. When I say on 110km/h in 6th gear 1600 -1700 rpm the car just cruised and hence the economy.

I have no roofrack, standard tyre's and the car is standard except fot long range tank, and snorkle.

The camper weighs in at about 1200kgs.

Cheers Ean

Originally Posted by Ean Austral

I found that if I did between 80-90km/h the car would hunt between 5th & 6th gear and rev between 1700 & 2300 rpm.

I lock mine in 6th gear to prevent this.