Thread: D4 Fuel Tank Capacity

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Originally Posted by A.J.M

My friends who have D4's here all report the same.

70ish litres is all they can get into the tank. Range of about 400 or so miles before a fill up. All are the 8 speed models with the 3.0 sdv6 engine.
That's the way they are. And no amount of changing fuel tanks, phone calls to dealers is going to change it.

That may be the way it is and if if you and your friends are happy with that than good. I think it is pretty average and will continue to annoy them until they either give me what I paid for or they admit their specifications are wrong and change them so other people are not deceived. Rolling over and simply accepting the error (or deception, depending on your view) helps no one.

Good luck then.

I suspect you may be in for a disappointment if you are going to get every D4 sold over the last 6 years tanks changed to give the extra few litres or them to change the printing on a model that's in its final months of production.

My mate has had a MY12 XS and now has a MY16 Graphite.
4 years separate the cars and the tank capacity is the same for both.

As I said. It is what it is.

Hi Guys The wife had been driving the My09 D3 2.7ltr told me you will have to put fuel in before you drive anywhere. I took it to the servo the gauge said 33klm to empty I put 87.7 litres in where I could just see the fuel in the filler neck. That filler tube must hold some fuel. The book says tank size 82 for diesel and 86 for petrol could they have put the wrong tank in ?

Originally Posted by A.J.M

Good luck then.

I suspect you may be in for a disappointment if you are going to get every D4 sold over the last 6 years tanks changed to give the extra few litres or them to change the printing on a model that's in its final months of production.

My mate has had a MY12 XS and now has a MY16 Graphite.
4 years separate the cars and the tank capacity is the same for both.

As I said. It is what it is.

I won't be disappointed but giving them a right royal run around is the least they deserve. I also would not even think of trying to get anyone's fixed except mine, I am a selfish bastard like that. I will post up here the end outcome though, then you can decide if it is worth the fight for yourself.


I must say though that it is a poor reflection on the company as a whole, fuel tanks have been around since, well since fuel powered vehicles were invented. If they cannot work out how much goes into their tanks it is bloody amazing they could get anything else right, it isn't that hard. Not sure what it is a better example of, British or Indian standards. Maybe both!

Originally Posted by Tinman

Hi Guys The wife had been driving the My09 D3 2.7ltr told me you will have to put fuel in before you drive anywhere. I took it to the servo the gauge said 33klm to empty I put 87.7 litres in where I could just see the fuel in the filler neck. That filler tube must hold some fuel. The book says tank size 82 for diesel and 86 for petrol could they have put the wrong tank in ?

You lucky bastard!!! Not only did you got more fuel in the tank than specified but you have a wife that warns you she ran the tank low.

The "usable" value is around 80+ litres. So no, LR are not lying or quoting misleading figures.

To achieve that in a D4 though, you will have to run it completely dry, as you would in any other vehicle. LR try to prevent you doing that by having the fuel cut-off scheme (applied around 80 km after the 0km to empty indication), but it IS possible to drive through that and keep going until the tank is actually empty.

If you're silly enough to do this, you'll likely foul up your injectors and have a bastard of a time priming it to restart, but you'll get your 80 odd litres in.

Your choice.

Cheers

Gordon

I can see the point though - useable infers useable in normal circumstances , not ignoring the safety measures the manufacturer built in circumstances ?)