Thread: Fuel Economy at Idle 2.7l TDV6

I was idling for 15 minutes yesterday and the average fuel consumption stayed on 12.0L/100 and did not more.

EUREKA!!! Perpetual Motion. Throw out the Hiclones.
In my experience based on a few cars, it catches up once the car starts to move again.
If you have been a fair way and it is an average , it may not use enough to go down to the next graduation.
Fuel economy at idle is by definition INFINITE.
Regards Philip A

Originally Posted by PhilipA

EUREKA!!! Perpetual Motion. Throw out the Hiclones.
In my experience based on a few cars, it catches up once the car starts to move again.
If you have been a fair way and it is an average , it may not use enough to go down to the next graduation.
Fuel economy at idle is by definition INFINITE.
Regards Philip A

Then Again at idle in the instantaneous fuel consumption show 99.9L/100 so I feel it is not particularly accurate.

Originally Posted by Redback

Economy seems a bit high, comparing it to the old D2 it is very high, considering the D2 had 3" oversize tyres, chipped, and all the crap on it and in it, this D4 has standard size tyres and all the gear now but when we first got it we did a couple of tanks without all the gear with similar figures.

This is going on litres used and Ks travelled, not from the trip computer.

With the camper on, 14.9l/100k.

Baz.

Baz,is yours 2.7?

My D2 definitely got better fuel economy than the D4,both around town & on a run

Oh,and at idle

But it does have more go,is more quieter& comfortable,is bigger & heavier,and will probably depreciate quicker...........

Lol, 99.9 is as close to infinite as the car can show... I'd love if the remaining range dropped to 0 accordingly.

That aside, it must depend on how (and how often) its calculating the average - obviously not based on a time period, more likely some kind of 5 or 10 km rolling average? Or as someone said just overall average since resetting the trip computer.

Yeh Stuart the computer is a little odd

At a stopped idle the instantaneous fuel usage is 99.9L/100km but if you are rolling along at idle the instantaneous fuel usage is 0.0L/100km. Only when the accelerator is depressed will it move off 0.0 when moving.

That aside my average fuel usage around town is 11.8-12L/100km and about 8.5-9 on the highway