Teach me your luxury ways!

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Originally Posted by PerthDisco

My mate had one of these with the BMW Diesel engine 3.0 and it was unbelievably noisy to hear it from the outside. It was low on power and burnt more fuel than the 2.7tdv6 which is silent by comparison

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He must have had a bad one - the M57 engine is known around the world as a first rate engine and has won international engine of the year on more than one occasion and has been in continuous production for 18 years now. Fuel economy is brilliant - under 10 L/100 pulling a brick shaped 2.5 tonne vehicle around.

Power was modest on the early units (130KW and 390Nm) but far from low and from the mid 2000's it has steadily increased in power and economy, while maintaining bulletproof reliability. They were dropped from the L322 in 2007 after Ford bought Land Rover.

While the TDV6 is a much newer and quieter design, the M57 is silky smooth in its power delivery. I also wouldn't call them unbelievable noisy - the engine fan produces a bit of noise but the engine itself isn't loud by any stretch - it sounds like you're talking about a 4BD1T the way you are going on. :D

He either had a dud - which is very rare, or the info you have is second hand and very far from the actual reality of these engines. I bet anyone here that owns/has owned one will strongly disagree with you.

The early L322's are known for having a dog of a transmission, but the engine has always been regarded as a gem.

I work on and drive d3 and d4 etc etc on a daily basis. There is a reason i bought a td6 l322..... in fact lots of reasons��

Jc

Hey Gav, curious about the fuel economy... The screen was saying 14.4L/100 when we picked it up. Saying about 13.5 after arriving home this afternoon. What's the go with my figures compared to 10L/100? It has been chipped/tuned - is that the answer? Haltech is the chip/mod brand.

My first thought is the trans and whether I should resort to a more conservative tune. I'm not that worried about power. Fuel economy and transmission are a higher priority!

If yours has been chipped, the computer will never read correctly. You will need to go back to pencil and paper and keep track of KM travelled and litres you put in it. If you were sitting on 110 all the way, you would have been around 10's.

The reason was explained here at some stage, but I have forgotton what the chip does to screw this up, but it does.

Ah huh! That makes sense as there was a few things didn't add up. The Range distance number doesn't match the economy figure at all - it indicates we're on track for circa 1000kms to a tank - so maybe Range distance is still accurate.

So much to learn... Started reading through the owners manual and learning a lot. :)

Yep, sounds like the distance to empty is working fine - that's the figure you should get when filling up on a highway run. Best I ever saw was when travelling in convoy to Melrose with some slower vehicles - we were travelling at around 80-85 the whole time. I topped up just before Melrose and the distance to empty read 1240KM... :D

Still don't know why one would read correctly and one not, but I do know the chip cocks it up somehow.

My remap has had no effect on the dash readout as far as i can see. The average consumption figure is a little weird to come to terms with when i first got the car but I'm seeing 10.5 on a highway run , and towing 1 to 2.5t for 600km last weekend saw 15.4. Have around 490 to 500nm on tap now which is juuuuust great!

Jc

That's interesting - I wish I could remember who posted about this - they hada great explanation on what was going on with the chip - it alludes me now... :D

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Originally Posted by Homestar

He must have had a bad one - the M57 engine is known around the world as a first rate engine and has won international engine of the year on more than one occasion and has been in continuous production for 18 years now. Fuel economy is brilliant - under 10 L/100 pulling a brick shaped 2.5 tonne vehicle around.

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His was a base model about 2003 vintage. He never had a problem and I am not questioning the quality. Inside it was a dream and very quiet. Being my neighbour the joke always was you had to almost to cover your ears when he drove up the street past our house such was the engine noise. We did a 4wd trip out to Steep Point following each other's tracks and ended up with quite a fuel difference when we topped off. He did 120000 before selling with maybe only an air shock problem as far as I can remember.

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Originally Posted by justinc

. Have around 490 to 500nm on tap now which is juuuuust great!

Jc

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How do you cope with such a small amount of torque? :twisted::D:angel: