Fuel mileage terminology

mijochka,

I take it from your post that you keep track of your fuel economy. If you do, and if you have Microsoft Excel, I have made up a simple sheet that I use to record fuel figures in three different formats - MPG, lt per 100 km, and km per lt. All that is required is to enter the litres used and kms travelled each time you fill up.

If you want this emailed to you just let me knowCheers, Jim

"Lead, Follow.....or get out of the way!!"

Mate,

I'm with you. Although I was born mid 50's and grew up on MPG; I have tried bloody hard to accept l/100klm as the new measure....and I've done okay too. I keep records in a book every time I fill up. At the right side of the double page I now have 2 columns headed up "l/100klm" and "klm/ltr". Every few months, I take the book inside and get out the calculator and work out both figures.
There is no way I could ever go back to MPG and I'm stuffed if I know how people can still refer to that terminology when they talk about their consumption....after all, the fuel bowser is calibrated in litres and the odometer is in kilometres. I'm a bloody bank manager, so I'm used to doing calculations; but why the bloody hell would I want to sit down and work out how many miles I've done for a certain number of klicks and then work out how many bloody gallons of juice I've just bought???
What else could we do to complicate our lives???? Oh! I know!! We could then work out how much it cost us to fill the tank in pounds, schilling and pence and go on to calculate how many schillings per mile it's costing us run our trucks.

Or would it be better to devise a whole new set of calculations.....say "furlongs per fortnight", instead of Klm per hour??
LOLOLOL
Cheers,
Roachie

mijochka

I am ancient too, but was lucky enough in my job (as an engineer) to learn how blooming easy it is to use metric. I have had the rule of thumb that when some clown quotes mpg I divide it in to 280 and it gives a rough enough figure in l/100km.

However, people who want to quote km per litre just baffle me. Why bother??

If you have a sign board saying its 150 km to the next fuel, and you know you are doing 15 l / 100km, then its real easy to work out that you need 15 litres of fuel.

However, when someone insists, the conversion is easy enough in the head - divide the number into 100. Happliy our generation can also do mental arithmetic!But it would be easier not to have to!! Try looking pained - it won't help but you might feel better!!

if you can afford a 4wd i dont know why your worried about how much fuel you use.

but i like mpg and carry a calculator with me if i really need to work it out. Having said that I use metric formulaue for airconditioning heat loads....double dutch gone haywire eh?

Buy a calculator and sit down with a beer to relieve the stressWow, am I cute! The extra long legs are built-in prevention against ducks disease. Great looks and a real goer. Doesnt waddle along like some.

Try this link, it does all the work for you www.hicloneqld.data.htm. Perhaps Hiclones do serve a useful purpose after all?

Try

http://www.euronet.nl/users/grantm/frans/fuel.html

Russell

g'day jimbo - any chance of obtaining that info please /

bandjh@dodo.com.au

thanking u kindly

G'Day all,

Found a great site today while surfing for Camper Trailer Hire here in Adelaide.

Desert Access Equipment Hire

Gives some simple formulas and also a handy conversion chart between L/100KM and MPG.

Has some pretty good gear for hire and sale too! Long term camper trailer hire (6 weeks or so) works out at about $17 a day. Thought that was pretty good.

StevenLPlaydoe GXL TD Manual
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This pic will have to do till then. Can't wait!!!

I'm sorry blokes, but I still don't get it??? Why would you go to the servo and buy 100 litres of fuel, drive 600klm and then want to sit down (even with the most simple formulae in the world) and change that into: "How Many Miles I Travelled For Every Gallon Of Fuel I Used".
As I said before, I was born mid 50's (okay....1955) but I can't remember now whether 30mpg was good/average or crap economy. However, I know that if I getting 14 litres per hundred klicks, that's not too bad for my old banger.
I know for bloody sure that I wouldn't like to go back to "pounds/schillings/pence days" and that's what you're trying to hang on to, even by bothering to calculate back to MPG.
Just my opinion.
Cheers,
Roachie

Seeing as many on this thread admit to being from the MPG generation I would state that "why would you worry about what mileage you are getting from your vehicle? " You should by now have enough money to go where you want to be, without worrying about how much fuel you may be using. Anyway if you want to convert your figures back to MPG then multiply the kilometres travelled by 4.55 then divide by 8 and mulitply by 5. This will give you MPG. Driving along in the bush without a calculator you will keep your grey matter working for quite a few kilometres:-))) My old truck uses the same amount of fuel most of the time. 5km/l or 14.2 MPG.......it doesn't matter...I go where I want to and budget accordingly.

Cheers,Willem
Out on the Gibber

Jimbo,
if not to late and not streaching a friendship too much, can I please, please also have a copy emailed to me
mrowlands@ozemail.com.au

10 Para I noticed from the photo of your Nissan you have a rear mounted HF aerial. Is the bracket you use a commercial one or is it home manufactured. I am looking at at doing a similair job on the back of my Pajero for an Amateur Radio HF antenna. Any details would be appreciated. You could email me on hoffmann@usq.edu.au if you like.
Thanks
Keith

I was just going through the end of primary school when the "metrification" was about 2 years away, so I learned both. I still say someone is about 5'10" and 75 kg.... or 177cm and 12 stone.... or 1.77m and 170lb. and can happily convert "on the fly" depending who I am talking to.

10l/100km = 10 km/l = 28.5 mpg.....unless you are talking US gallons, or nautical miles ;-)

Don't forget that this whole metric/imperial thing was what caused one of the Mars spaceceraft failures. The mission was a joint effort between NASA and the European Space agency. There was a full technical explanation but the short story was along the lines of:

"Landing parachute was programmed to be deployed at 1000 metres above the ground but due to confusion with units was actually programmed to deploy chute at 1000 feet (about 300 metres) thus impacting the ground at very high speed".
Result: $500 million dollar pile of debris!

Why can't the whole world agree on one system? Just look at the way we describe Tyre and Wheel measurements eg:- 265/70R16 is 265mm wide 70% high Radial tyre to fit 17 inch rim.

Madness!!

StevenLPlaydoe GXL TD Manual
It's on order, Delivery in April '04.
This pic will have to do till then. Can't wait!!!