AnswerID: 4650 Submitted: Thursday, Jul 04, 2002 at 00:00
Damien
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20L/100km seems excessively high, i think you should expect something around the 16L/100km even allowing for a heavy right foot. Changing the type of tyre i.e Wraglers to BFG will not make a noticeable difference.
The only time this would be an issue is if you fit larger
tyres, making your speedo read low & therefore meaning your trip meter will indicate less kilometres than you have actually travelled which in turn will give you a worse fuel economy figure.
The fact you record 11L/100km on the highway indicates something else is wrong. I would regard this as an excellent figure for a V6. I do not have an answer for you, but perhaps the finer filter set-up may be restricting air flow a little & causing the fuel mixtures to be upset - just a thought!!
Good luck, let us know how you go.
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FollowupID: 1982 Submitted:
Thursday, Jul 04, 2002 at 00:00
Savvas posted:
Jackaroos do have heavier consumption than their main competition (Paj and Prado). It doesn't make any difference if I'm running a paper air filter, one or two stages of the Finer Filter. I don't think there is anything wrong per se and may have everything to with the fact that in the main, it does a lot of short stop/start trips (sorry...forgot to point that out). The car performs great, and absolutely loves being unleashed on the open road. I'm just wondering if anyone is having similar experiences.
On the weekends, with longer trips but still in suburban running, the consumption is much lower. I think I just answered my own question.
PS.... The highway running figure is achieved with 98 octane fuel. I use normal unleaded for city as there is no significant gain with 98.
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