Fuel Consumption Figures - how to empty your 60L tank in style

[MR2QIK]

New PB. 11.6L/100KM around town driving in Sydney. Made an RX8 look bad in that one too.

Pretty happy considering it's all mechanically stock with just a HKS intake (no Merlin flash) yet).

 

[it's.simon]

Adelaide city driving. I used to get about 360 - 380kms but after a TME tune I get about 420kms until the light comes on. Today I managed 440kms before the light came on. Absolutely full is usually filling up around 55L.

 

[Bugz]

When does everyone's fuel light come on?

I get down to the bottom line and then refil but had never seen my light come on- worried it didnt work.
Anyway today i figured id test it and sure enough it flickered on and off abit so i filled up shortly after.

Got 379km to the tank- which took about 50-51 litres to fill.

 

[veegeeta]

^ mine comes on first at quarter off tank then flickers off. comes back on and stays on just before the e line.

 

[mcs]

mine comes on probably on the empty line.

 

[jungle]

When does everyone's fuel light come on?

I get down to the bottom line and then refil but had never seen my light come on- worried it didnt work.
Anyway today i figured id test it and sure enough it flickered on and off abit so i filled up shortly after.

Got 379km to the tank- which took about 50-51 litres to fill.

Thats pretty crappy economy. barely 7.5km/L or 13.4L/100. Clearly i don't know what type of driving that was but I'd shit if mine got that.
I gather lots of stop/start and heavy accel?

 

[battery]

lol^^ I get like 200ks to 40L, all very short trips 10-15mins, stop start and I drive like a dick..

 

[uzz320]

I tend to get 14-15 L/100km, Adelaide is a shit place to try and drive for economy - road works everywhere, and where there isn't road works your speed fluctuates like a sin wave between the speed limit and 20-30kph under it for no apparent reason. The engineers too stupid to work for the holden plant end up working on the ACTS (Adelaide Coordinated Trafic Signal) system to make sure that you can't get two green lights in a row; then theres the council workers that drop a three lane major arterial road to one lane in peak hour to mow the grass on the median strip. That should start to form an accurate picture of what it is like to drive here

(no offence to Holden engineers, I'm sure you do your best )

 

[jungle]

he he that explains it then. Mine gets about 10.5km/L or 9.5L/100km

 

[Bugz]

Thats pretty crappy economy. barely 7.5km/L or 13.4L/100. Clearly i don't know what type of driving that was but I'd shit if mine got that.
I gather lots of stop/start and heavy accel?

TBH i try not to use the loud foot all that often, i mean obviously a squirt here and there but i dont drive like a dick everywhere.

Small runs to Uni- works a good 20-30min but traffic is generally bullshit and peak hour coming home.
Adelaide's traffic is shit and we dont have any free flowing road ways- well nothing CBD based that i drive.

Drives me up the wall some weeks, hence i want to get her tuned, see what difference it makes.

 

[Bugz]

Oh and my light flickering today was on the line...hence i have been worried it never worked.

 

[Lasiorhinus]

9.5L/100km? Oh I dream of such good economy....

 

[Poita]

When does everyone's fuel light come on?

I get down to the bottom line and then refil but had never seen my light come on- worried it didnt work.
Anyway today i figured id test it and sure enough it flickered on and off abit so i filled up shortly after.

Got 379km to the tank- which took about 50-51 litres to fill.

Thats about right, when there is about 10ltrs left. So it's all working as it should!

 

[jungle]

TBH i try not to use the loud foot all that often, i mean obviously a squirt here and there but i dont drive like a dick everywhere.

Small runs to Uni- works a good 20-30min but traffic is generally bullshit and peak hour coming home.
Adelaide's traffic is shit and we dont have any free flowing road ways- well nothing CBD based that i drive.

Drives me up the wall some weeks, hence i want to get her tuned, see what difference it makes.

Understood. Your car gets what my '93 Mitsubishi Trtion(Astron 2.6 carby) does. Shits me. That's actually worse than what my 3litre GTR used to get

 

[Bugz]

You mean to say if I buy a GTR ill get better fuel economy-- well then. Haha

 

[jungle]

You mean to say if I buy a GTR ill get better fuel economy-- well then. Haha

On the same drive to work as the Leggy, the GTR would get about 8.5-9km/L as a 3 liter.before the 3 liter conversion, as a 2.6L it would get 10-10.5km/L

 

[steveP]

When does everyone's fuel light come on?

I get down to the bottom line and then refil but had never seen my light come on- worried it didnt work.
Anyway today i figured id test it and sure enough it flickered on and off abit so i filled up shortly after.

Got 379km to the tank- which took about 50-51 litres to fill.

Mine is exactly the same. 360-370 kms for about 50L. I don't drive like a grandma, but I'm not thrashing it either. I have to drive through peak hour traffic everyday, morning and afternoon.

Fuel economy didn't improve with a tune unfortunately. I guess economy is better, but the tune increased boost, so they cancel each other out.

I've been doing an experiment. 2 full tanks driving half in auto mode and half with tiptronic. Repeat only in auto mode for 2 tanks, and again with only tiptronic. Disappointingly, driving only in auto mode has no affect. I always thought me downshifting and playing around with tiptronic caused me back economy. Still yet to test a full tank in tiptronic mode only.

 

[fieldy107]

I find the more cold starts I have increases the kms I travel quite a lot. If I used a whole tank in a single drive I would get about 600km to a tank but If I use a whole tank over 6 different trips I will get less than 500kms. These cars drink the petrol badly when they are cold.
The way I drive has much less of an impact on my fuel economy I have found, although If I drive like a real grandma I can get at least an extra 50kms out of a tank.

 

[David-777]

I'm getting about 360kms. Quick question, Anybody using the 10% ethanol 100 octane from united stations. I want to try it but i'm not sure.

 

[mcs]

People are using the 100 octane mainly when they get a tune for more power.