Thread: Ebay Buy

Agreed, 20l/100km seems high to me too - 3.9L discovery was on about 18l/100km and I was expecting the P38 to be a bit better from all the stuff I'd read. Not sure whats causing my consumption, a lot of my driving is country miles so I reckon somethings amis. So many things to check its hard to know where to start, guess I'll take it in to a test book and get my codes read for starters.

I've got the original chips (previous owner supplied them) and I'm tempted to put them back in so I've got a reference point

Whats your Fuel consumption when your on country roads? It should drop considerably, I even see it drop when I am on the east link freeway which isnt a long road. It'll start out around 17ish then after about 10 mins at 100k it drops slowly too about 16 (approx) when I get off at springvale road.

Maybe try putting back the standard chips too see if that makes a difference?

It gets down to around the 17-18 mark at 100km/h on a decent road, still not very good. City driving its closer to 25. The computer figures are fairly accurate too as they match up pretty closely to the average I manually work out using trip-meter k's and litres consumed at the pump - which has worked out to be about 20l/100km over the last 3000km's. First few tanks were on 98 octane, but having been using 95 since then

I'd like to get my adaptive values reset, wondering if the previous owner drove like a madman and that's affecting it.

Originally Posted by Junosi

It gets down to around the 17-18 mark at 100km/h on a decent road, still not very good. City driving its closer to 25. The computer figures are fairly accurate too as they match up pretty closely to the average I manually work out using trip-meter k's and litres consumed at the pump - which has worked out to be about 20l/100km over the last 3000km's. First few tanks were on 98 octane, but having been using 95 since then

I'd like to get my adaptive values reset, wondering if the previous owner drove like a madman and that's affecting it.

I'm getting the same figures but using 98. I've been told that it's slightly better economy (??).

I had my dual exhaust done at Hi Tech Mufflers at Taylor Square - very happy with the new sound Quiet at low revs and a meaty sound when it counts. I figure if i'm going to burn all that fuel I want to hear it...

Check it out here;


[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5awSPolF2I"]YouTube- Range Rover P38 Exhaust upgrade[/ame]

Well I rechipped my P38 back to original today and did some tests, very interesting results. I'll make a new thread