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

[David-777]

I haven't had a tune. I thought it would be better since in japan they're running 101 octane?

 

[Unco_Tomato]

10% ethanol blend (E10) is 100 octane? Thought it was 91 octane?

 

[dwarfmarine]

100 Octane is 98 + ethanol making it around 100

E10 is poo


I had run United 100 for a good year before a Steve tune.
got pretty decent economy,
went to 98 for the tune, i get slightly better power but less economy from 100 on a 98 tune

 

[Rabit]

My last fill was 59.63 L and it was still running. Is that some sort of record since its only a 60 L tank.

 

[TME_Steve]

Barstard you just beat me, my best was 59.14.... Did a 58.85 the other day as well

 

[jungle]

Hmm your fuel filter won't be full of crap now will it

 

[David-777]

How was the power with 100 before the tune?

 

[VR4sum]

Fuel consumption figures after testing tiptronic vs. full auto:
Mix of city driving and freeway (about 60/40) in both cases:

Full auto: avg 10.8l for 100km
Tiptronic; avg 13.3l for 100km

Granted my driving is a bit more spirited when I use tiptronic ... And really, who wants to drive these things in auto constantly!?? BORING.

 

[VR4sum]

I'm stoked with both those figures because seasoned members may remember that my last leggy used anything from 16 - 22l for each 100km!!

 

[qball]

Wow Alex they're great figures. That other Vr4 must've been preettyy sick

 

[steveP]

I have also tried driving in full auto vs tiptronic. 2 tanks of each in case something weird happened in my driving route.

So far it has barely made a difference. Full auto might be slightly better, but very minimal.

Reading previously where someone was saying they get more kms when driven in larger chunks; I definitely agree with that. Luckily I only fill up once every 2 weeks. I probably do about 25-30kms a day, broken up into 7kms chunks. So I'm starting my car and only driving 7kms 3 to 4 times a day. So over the course of a whole tank of fuel, the car is in warm up mode at least 35 times. No doubt this is responsible for by worse than average economy. As I said before though, I only fill up once every 2 weeks, so it isn't that bad really.

 

[Skippy]

Best's:
Country: 10.16L/100km
City: 13.39L/100km

Worst:
16.92L/100km

Average:
14.54L/100km

So far done 10 fill ups, hopefully I'll be able to pull the average down a bit...

 

[Rabit]

Barstard you just beat me, my best was 59.14.... Did a 58.85 the other day as well

No one can call me a "Barstard" cause I went to my mothers wedding (Her second and I wasnt born for the first in 1942), 31 years ago. LOL

 

[GMan]

I'm still going well -- went for a trip to Wollongong lately but otherwise city driving. 9.66L/100Km was my last tank.

 

[Badger]

Hmm I can only manage about 250km to a tank lol, I think something may be wrong haha

 

[naughtika]

Hmm I can only manage about 250km to a tank lol, I think something may be wrong haha

rofl.. I thought mine was bad... getting 350-400 per tank with 45L fill..

 

[fieldy107]

Just did 600kms and cost $55 to fill it back up, but thats in my colt
The fuel efficiency definitely makes it easier to live with the poor performance

 

[staticc]

I finally did a fuel test. I used about 45L - 50L and I managed 340kms.

 

[mcs]

how do you get such bad fuel economy, my car is broken and gets better economy.

 

[staticc]

I do a lot of short runs. And I like to use its performance lol.

I always say ill take it easy, but I can never help myself.