Thread: Fuel Consumption

Around 10.5 litres/100 (Tdi 300 ) and pretty consistant for the last 60000km

Bushie

20L/100Km V8 Disco auto and that drops down to arounf 17L/100Km on a country run


Adam

10-12lts per 100k's
130 td5

10.5 -11 litres/100Km, Disco TD5

Hi folks, I’m out on a trip and I have just clocked 1,100 on this tank of fuel. I’m about to fill up some time this morning. The 50km indicator has only just come on.
The rangie has been getting better and better fuel consumption but I wonder if they tweak the computer each time it goes for a service.
It has a 100lt tank so this means that it is using less than 9lt/100km.
Cheers.

Interesting post noddy.

9-10L/100Km 1996 300tdi 130... have done 8 couple of times when we are shoting so thats just idling around

On a recent trip from Perth to Victoria River Downs in 300Tdi 110 wagon loaded up but no roof rack I think I averaged just over 10l/100km. BUT I observed from the km pegs along the road that the odometer is over reading by about 5 percent - so my figures are probably low. I kept details of all the fuel that went into each of the tanks and how many km I got from each tank.

It is great to see some figures from other Defenders and it is good to see mine is in ball park - maybe a bit high. On that that trip I had a 2nd spare wheel on the bonnet and at tall UHF ariel. I believe that these two items would effect economy by a fair bit. Your comments?

I was interested to read sniperator claim good economy just idling around. I wondered what effect the slow sections on the King Edward River Road (22kph for an eternity) would have had.

BTW I travelled in convoy with a 110 300Tdi trayback he had a fibreglass canopy on the back chokkers with gear but got marginally better economy than I did.

The old 88 rangie gets about 12-13L/100kms on country trips [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif[/img]. and about 18-20L/100kms around town [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sad.gif[/img]