Fuel usage on a tdv6

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Originally Posted by Garfield

I have a D4 3.0 TDv6 with steel bull bar, winch, steel rock sliders, draws full of recovery gear and tool box all the time , 265/60 18R BF Goodridge with Compomotive wheels and I get about 10.5lt/100km around the city and 8.5 lt/100km on highway around 115km/h. vehicle weight is 3,060 kg.

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Man, I'd be happy with that with mine. I got to 490kms before the fuel light came on and put 65l in to it. So about 13.3l/100 which was predominantly highway with a little offroad and city thrown in.

I've got a pretty similar setup and weight. Granted i live in a hilly and congested part of Melbourne, but I'd kind of wish for more. Tempted to put in a long range tank, just for my city trips....

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Originally Posted by vbrab

Have covered 450,000K to date in a 2007 D3.
Did 390K on first motor then got hold of a low K Territory motor, old engine is happily powering another D3.

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This is good to hear.

Scott

So a quick update, today's figures works out to 11.6L/100km, that's probably as good as we can do I'm afraid...
things that occur to me that may affect us are :
1-Tyre pressures, what is the normal for a pretty stock car with a bull bar?
2-Our air filter is a k & n washable one, maybe they are restrictive?
3-Although I just saw someone else mention it, ours is now running a territory motor as well,could this be an issue? Looks like maybe not

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Originally Posted by shack

So a quick update, today's figures works out to 11.6L/100km, that's probably as good as we can do I'm afraid...
things that occur to me that may affect us are :
1-Tyre pressures, what is the normal for a pretty stock car with a bull bar.
2-Our air filter is a k & n washable one, maybe they are restrictive?
3-Although I just saw someone else mention it, ours is now running a territory motor as well,I thought this may be an issue, but maybe not

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Lose the K&N. All it’s doing is dusting your motor....

And likely killing your MAF

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Originally Posted by Tombie

Lose the K&N. All it’s doing is dusting your motor....

And likely killing your MAF

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Yeah, I've been thinking the same thing

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Originally Posted by TuffRR

Man, I'd be happy with that with mine. I got to 490kms before the fuel light came on and put 65l in to it. So about 13.3l/100 which was predominantly highway with a little offroad and city thrown in.

I've got a pretty similar setup and weight. Granted i live in a hilly and congested part of Melbourne, but I'd kind of wish for more. Tempted to put in a long range tank, just for my city trips....

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TuffRR, I am quite a conservative / boring driver. These fuel figures are from the on board computer - if you can trust them. If I only travel at 100km/h on highway with cruise control, onboard computer goes down to 7.5lt/100km. Vehicle has done about 55,000km and regularly serviced.

But saying that, I can travel easily to our farm near Corryong on 2/3rds of a tank ( 520km ) - which say 2/3rds is Hume Hwy and last 1/3rd around hilly Murray Valley Highway.

p.s. also I keep my BF Goodrige Ko2 well inflate at 40psi cold all round - except when 4WDing.

Bloody hell... what’s with people running their tyres so high?

Especially with LTs on.

Running that high up the front takes away from handling (grip) and in wet conditions has had DSC triggering on even the mildest of wet surfaces.

32-34psi is all the nose needs.

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Originally Posted by Tombie

32-34psi is all the nose needs.

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Was talking to a Bridgestone tech after complaining about how disappointed i was with the sidewall resilience of the D697's. After i told him i was running around 32psi in the front cold, he advised that LT's should probably at a minimum be run around 35-36 psi.

He also said the D697's have a strong sidewall, so may of been completely full of ****.

I can go take photos of 9 697s right now.
All used under full offroad conditions, loaded, at speed...

Barely a mark on any of them.

I think you’re just unlucky. [emoji41]

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Originally Posted by Tombie

I can go take photos of 9 697s right now.
All used under full offroad conditions, loaded, at speed...

Barely a mark on any of them.

I think you’re just unlucky. [emoji41]

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If it was two of them, I'd agree.

But i can take a photo of 5 of them (not 6 because that one was terminal and was binned), with around 10,000kms on them all with really significant slices and cuts through the sidewall. Been in the Victorian high country 4 times and they are pretty badly damaged. And all on different trips, so its not like it all happened at one particular time.

I'm really happy with them on road, and off road the grip seems ok - but anyone expecting them to hold up to the Vic high country should re-assess IMO.