Thread: What happened to your D3/D4 today?

Originally Posted by BradC

Mine is a 2007 build MY08 UK import. That's stock. I'm pretty sure there's a GAP dash upgrade firmware to do it for older machines.



I log every tank at the bowser. In the country, under "nice" conditions I regularly see 9s. Average over 42 tanks has been 10.75 but a "few" of those were towing.

Somewhat similar here
Overall average including towing the brick is 11.98 l/100 km
Actual towing average for mainly the brick is 20.08
Other metro/country average with no towing is 10.6
Best ever is 9.53 solo on a trip to Kalbarri

Originally Posted by 101RRS

My car is the RRS equivalent of your D3 - on the message display box how did you get the time to display above the line to the left of the Ex temp display.

On my car the time displays below the line where your fuel consumption is showing. To get it I have to use the i button and scroll through the options so I can never have time and the other options like fuel consumption displayed at the same time.

Cheers

Garry

Standard D3 configuration, early models didn't have the time but a retro active update fixed that
Is the RRS dash exactly the same ?

My best fuel burn since all the build was done is a mid to high 10.

Normal average on a run is around 11.2

To be fair though - I’m not light on for acceleration or avg speed.

Originally Posted by loanrangie

Standard D3 configuration, early models didn't have the time but a retro active update fixed that
Is the RRS dash exactly the same ?

The drivers side of the dash is exactly the same in the early RRS and D3. It looks like what is activated etc might be different though.

Originally Posted by Tombie

To be fair though - I’m not light on for acceleration or avg speed.

Thats always a big factor. The D3 has a pretty undersized clutch for the torque, so I tend to be a bit “granddadish” off the line with lazy rev matched changes, it doesn’t help that the BAS patch for the EGR and DPF delete has caused a throttle “flare” on every change which makes them slower again. I also sit just on or slightly above the limit. Had enough fines and spent enough time walking in my younger years.

If I’m feeling abusive, it will do a 4 wheel spin from a standing start though.

My best has been a run around the South West where I managed 9.06L/100 over 82L. Mum had a very early D1 tdi and I used to regularly better that in the country, but overtaking a b double required a weeks planing.

Originally Posted by 101RRS

The drivers side of the dash is exactly the same in the early RRS and D3. It looks like what is activated etc might be different though.

So maybe just software related.

Originally Posted by BradC

Thats always a big factor. The D3 has a pretty undersized clutch for the torque, so I tend to be a bit “granddadish” off the line with lazy rev matched changes, it doesn’t help that the BAS patch for the EGR and DPF delete has caused a throttle “flare” on every change which makes them slower again. I also sit just on or slightly above the limit. Had enough fines and spent enough time walking in my younger years.

If I’m feeling abusive, it will do a 4 wheel spin from a standing start though.

My best has been a run around the South West where I managed 9.06L/100 over 82L. Mum had a very early D1 tdi and I used to regularly better that in the country, but overtaking a b double required a weeks planing.

Yeah my old D1 TDI ran on fumes , so much so that I never left with more than half a tank for a weekend away.
But the D3 with camper on would do 110 up a long hill that the D1 struggled to do 60 up.

Originally Posted by 101RRS

The drivers side of the dash is exactly the same in the early RRS and D3. It looks like what is activated etc might be different though.

Originally Posted by loanrangie

So maybe just software related.

Garry I forget where I read it, but I think it was on the Disco3 site, that pre-2007 vehicles did not have the instrument software to display the clock in the message centre. My 2006 D3 did not have the clock on the dash so because I have a Nanocom I downloaded the file identified in the thread I read and then used that to upload to my vehicle and it gave me the 24 hour clock in the message centre as you are after.

The other 'benefit' I had was that when I have my headlights on high beam I get the red fuel burning heater icon in the bottom left of the message centre as pre-2007 there was no high beam indicator for Australian D3's. I thought I had a picture of it but can't locate that.

I will post again tomorrow after I have checked which particular file was recommended.