Thread: Outback Trip in L322

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Originally Posted by Blade74

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Originally Posted by CSBrisie

------Drive up through Toowoomba Range was a little stressful (Steep!) ------- thirsty though - we are averaging 20.9/100. -------

Its a doddle now but downhill is always worse
your fuel usage is interesting,, but you gotta remember you are around 6 ton---
should get better as the country flattens out

Originally Posted by rar110

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Originally Posted by Blade74

20" Tyres?
What motor? V8 petrol?

As per Chris's signature..........mighty 4.4 ltr V8 turbo diesel! He has a chip and 3" exhaust too.........

**sorry Blade, I didnt realise everyone else had been there before me!***

Safely in Longreach and now a couple of days off driving. So far so good - Rangie behaving impeccably. Thirsty - but we are at GVM and I suspect gross "train" weight too.
Brief comments as we go - The car is very happy to "accelerate" ( I use that term loosely!) to 100 and sits happily on 100-105 at 1600 in 7th if I leave it in D. A couple of times it's changed into 8th but its labouring and changes back to 7th pretty quickly. It will sit on 110 also quite happily in 7th - but that leads to 23l/100 pretty quickly. We have averaged 21/100 to Longreach and quite a bit was at 110. So, I guess even the brilliant TDV8 struggles to deliver "economy" with the combination of roof rack and two spares plus the 3.5t on the back :

Tyres- all good, fronts at 38 rears at 42 and the Tyre Dog system (does van too) is performing well too.

Will keep you all posted as we go!

Cheers

Have a ripper trip Chris...and pay more attention to the shocks than I did in the Kimberley last year:-)

Originally Posted by CSBrisie

...It will sit on 110 also quite happily in 7th - but that leads to 23l/100 pretty quickly. We have averaged 21/100 to Longreach and quite a bit was at 110. So, I guess even the brilliant TDV8 struggles to deliver "economy" with the combination of roof rack and two spares plus the 3.5t on the back :
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We've just got back from a Tanami Track/Gibb River Road/Oodnadatta Track jaunt in our MAN truck (approx 9.5 tonnes) and 23L/100 is the average of what we got too. Sometimes 24L/100 in the dirt and sometimes 22L\100 on nice flat bitumen. We only travel at 90 or 95Km/h though.

Spoke to a few blokes with petrol LandCruisers towing vans that were heading towards 30L/100!!

Sounds like you're have a fun trip, and trouble free too. We managed to get to the 2nd last day of an 8 week trip when some idiot doing 110 on the gravel road into Maree flicked up a stone and cracked our windshield