Thread: What did you do today??

Originally Posted by gghaggis

Nice

I played with the 3 remaps I have for the D3 and the Aliengate interface (I have the std tune, an 'economy' tune and a 'power' tune). Around the city I've found that the economy and power tunes both provide better power and return better fuel figures than the std tune, as they're supposed to.

However, towing the van on the open road is a little different. I did 300km with the 'economy' tune, then 250 km with the std tune. The economy still gives better power, you can use the cruise control and the car will stay within 3 ~ 5km/h of your set speed. Cruise control off makes little difference. Average was 19.6 l/100km

With the std tune, cruise control will vary by as much as 10km/h, and it annoyingly holds onto the higher gears for too long going up hills. But with cruise control off, driving at the same speed as with the 'economy' tune, I got 18 l/100km.

It's a heavy van (2.6T unladen), and being raised, it has a poor drag profile. But interesting that the std factory tune out-performs the remaps!

Cheers,

Gordon

Hey Gordon, howcome your fuel figures are high? We went up to kalbarri, shark bay then back through geraldton and dongara on the way back, did a little off roading over a fewdays and we had an average of 16l/100km and we were towing a jetski and fully loading for camping for 10 days and ours is a v8 D3

Originally Posted by MADDOG

Hey Gordon, howcome your fuel figures are high? We went up to kalbarri, shark bay then back through geraldton and dongara on the way back, did a little off roading over a fewdays and we had an average of 16l/100km and we were towing a jetski and fully loading for camping for 10 days and ours is a v8 D3

I'm towing a 3 tonne van, erm, rather quickly

Cheers,

Gordon

Lol, ok, let you off then

What did I do today. I just bought a new car. well nearly new

05 tdv6 HSE discovery. It has all those (as my wife would put it) tosser bits that are nice to have but not necessary. It has a few more km's than I had been shopping for, but the price more than made up for it.

The guy has just bought a RR Sport and was offered $37,000 as a trade in . And to think a dealer on the weekend was tying to tell me he was doing me a good deal dropping the price of a 60K discovery by $1500 and was dissapointed when I walked without buying.

Bonatti Grey
Black leather interior
Premium Ice
Cooler Box
Adaptive headlights
Sunroofs
Roof rails
2 new tyres

Now to sell my D1.

That is all for today

Hmmm better reread all the I got bogged posts on here to learn how to drive it.

Originally Posted by trobbo

What did I do today. I just bought a new car. well nearly new

05 tdv6 HSE discovery. It has all those (as my wife would put it) tosser bits that are nice to have but not necessary. It has a few more km's than I had been shopping for, but the price more than made up for it.

The guy has just bought a RR Sport and was offered $37,000 as a trade in . And to think a dealer on the weekend was tying to tell me he was doing me a good deal dropping the price of a 60K discovery by $1500 and was dissapointed when I walked without buying.

Bonatti Grey
Black leather interior
Premium Ice
Cooler Box
Adaptive headlights
Sunroofs
Roof rails
2 new tyres

Now to sell my D1.

That is all for today

Hmmm better reread all the I got bogged posts on here to learn how to drive it.

What a great day. Nice deal. Hope you enjoy it - and get it dirty!!!

And like all new D3 drivers say.
"Disco goes up......Disco goes down.....Disco goes up.....Disco goes down...."

Nothing like that first drive jumping out of a D1 and into a HSE D3. WooHoo. Well done!

Cheers,
Steve.

Lost two friends on aulro

Originally Posted by Sleepy

Lost two friends on aulro

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