Thread: Awesome

Originally Posted by Stuart02

There's some threads about economy, but 13's aren't super bad for stop-start city driving...

I have to admit that over the last week or so there has been a bit of that because of the Christmas shopping. But our general driving too and from the shops is mostly 80kph, although it is a bit on the hilly side. I'm going to look at getting different tyres anyway as I'm not overly impressed with the Mickey Thompson MTZ for general travel and towing. Great off road but I won't be taking two sets of tyres when we set off around Oz.

I'll check to see if I can find the threads on economy.

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.

Your D3 has roughly around 33's MTZ's on it from memory which would knock the edge off of it when towing a decent size van or even for stop start city driving.

Mine with 31.5" STT's towing our 2.5 ton pop top is averaging about 18.5 ltrs /100. I tend to drive at the speed limit and briskly mind you, if you drive at 90 to 100 kph like most vanners do then your economy will improve, also remember much taller tyres means your speedo isn't accurate. With larger then standard 31.5" tyres fitted a D3's speedo is nearly 100 perecnt accurate.

Towing a camper at speed is easy for a D3, the roof line of the camper is below the vehicles roof line and it weighs bugger all in comparision to a van. Not sure why the guy with the Prado was upset with 19 litres/100, sounds about right when towing a van twice the size of a camper, he is dragging a big box through the air while the much smaller camper is hiding behind the D3. I bet if Ean and him swapped trailers for a couple of hundred k's and stayed at 110 kph then the results would be quite different.

cheers,
Terry

Originally Posted by TerryO

Your D3 has roughly around 33's on it from memory which would knock the edge off of it when towing a decent size van.

Mine with 31.5" STT's towing our 2.5 ton pop top is averaging about 18.5 ltrs /100. I tend to drive at the speed limit and briskly mind you, if you drive at 90 to 100 kph like most vanners do then your economy will improve, also remember much taller tyres means your speedo isn't accurate. With larger then standard 31.5" tyres fitted a D3's speedo is nearly 100 perecnt accurate.

cheers,
Terry

Pretty close Terry. They are just under 32" and checking the speedo with the GPS it is pretty much dead on. I'll need to work out how to use the "Calibrate" function on the Touch Screen when I change the tyres. I think I just use the kilometers selection and start driving.

Hi Mike,

what is the actual tyre size of your MTZ's again?

cheers,
Terry

Originally Posted by TerryO

Hi Mike,

what is the actual tyre size of your MTZ's again?

cheers,
Terry

265/70 17 on 17x7" Dynamic steel rims. According to this calculator they are 31.6".

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

So if we assume 1500 km Darwin to Alice (from Google Maps), that's 11,7 litres/100km

and

Alice-Victor Harbor (no "u" in Victor Harbor ) is 1630km. that's 11.04 litres/100km.

Pfft! My Rangie will easily do 30 litres/100km when towing a van!

Originally Posted by p38arover

Pfft! My Rangie will easily do 30 litres/100km when towing a van!

Mine does that without the van.

Originally Posted by p38arover

So if we assume 1500 km Darwin to Alice (from Google Maps), that's 11,7 litres/100km

and

Alice-Victor Harbor (no "u" in Victor Harbor ) is 1630km. that's 11.04 litres/100km.

Pfft! My Rangie will easily do 30 litres/100km when towing a van!

Absolutely correct with the spelling Ron. Very impressive for a New South Welshman.

Good to hear you had a safe and uneventful trip down Ean. We are day tripping to Middleton on 2 Jan. Will you still be at Victor then?