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Chops
I am running about 7.6 litres per 100 according to the trip meter.
Checked both A & B trip meters with B being constant since new at 7.8 & A being per tank currently running at 7.4.
Most of my trips are freeway from Heathcote Junction into Melbourne & beyond.
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Originally Posted by chuck
:o Any tips on how you do that constantly Chuck? The Mrs will be pleased :D ,,, not sure I want to drive like a granny though :angel:, if that's how your doing it.
To get that he will be travelling between 70 and 90 kmh without having to stop start.
They love those speeds and the engine will only be doing 1200rpm:):):):):):)
Andrew
Andrew
Not quite - 110 & 100 on cruise control.
The trip into Melbourne is almost all downhill & I can do that leg at 5.9 litres per 100.
I do a lot of km for work so yes I am quite relaxed about it, there is no point getting stuck in, in Melbourne traffic.
Tyre pressures are high usually 40 psi.
Sort of irrelevant but 08 D3 over 199,000 km average 12l/ 100 km. Unfortunately mostly stop start Sydney traffic. On a good run in the country that drops drastically to around 9 - 10 l / 100.
I would expect the D4 to be better.
Cheers
Mike
I ran tank down to 8km left by gauge.
It took 75L to fill.
Does that mean I have 7-8L left in tank before filling up.
Vin
On recent trip to Adelaide and back (~5,000 klms) averaged 12.4l/100 pulling a 2.1t Camper trailer. Probably did around 1K of those Klms without the van. This with an unladen Pioneer Tray on top. Fairly conservative driving - 90 to 115kph generally on open road.
That's probably true.
I ran out of fuel in my 2005 TDV6 and what it does is close the engine down slowly so you have time to get of the road but it still leaves some fuel in the tank so you don't have to prime the system to get it going.
When the NRMA arrived with 10 litres of fuel, he just pored it into the tank and the car started straight away.
I then drove normally to the nearest servo.
Missed it by 4kms.
Very clever machine.
With all my bling and front runner roof rack at 68,000km:-
Around town, 10.6lts/100km, combination of freeway and side roads.
Towing fully loaded near gvm, 2 X 20 ltr jerry cans on roof, on tow X20 ultimate camper at 1420kg, ave 12.8-13.3lts/100km depending on conditions.
Lowest point in tank was a reserve of 11 litres left, 510km as a rough range.
This is my first discovery, bought the SE in January and it is the MY16 build model. Fuel light would come on and distance to empty would be 50 to 60 kilometres yet would only take 60 to 62 litres. Specification sheet reads 82.3 litres USEABLE.
On one trip miscalculated distance to next town and distance to empty read zero 15 kilometres out of town. Made it to the next town without running out and still only took 69 litres. Contacted Land Rover and they had me take it to a dealer who put the diagnostic computer on and said all is OK.
So, to test it out I put a jerry can in the vehicle with 15 litres in it and ran it until, like the book states, it started misfiring to indicate running out is immanent. Drove about 5 kilometres to next servo and first clicked off at 58 litres but after several attempts squeezed in 60 litres neat.
So in reality the tank holds 75 litres useable, not 82.3 litres. Pretty disappointed in that to be honest, coming from owning Land Cruisers previously with their healthy capacity and one Touareg (90 litres capacity) I nearly didn't buy the Discovery due to such a small indicated tank. Now to find out it isn't even what they state I feel ripped off. My business partner was looking seriously at one too but he has now gone off it, what else have they exaggerated?
For the record, I sent another email to them saying I wasn't happy and they didn't even bother responding.