80 seriers fuel consumption

There are three things you should not asked people how many miles that get to the gallon ,how much they weight ,and how much they drink, they never tell you the truth.

There are three things you should not asked people how many miles that get to the gallon ,how much they weight ,and how much they drink, they never tell you the truth.

Dear Bat. Despite your total inability to construct a grammatically correct sentence and therefore reflecting your apparent lack of formal education, your sarcastic jibe did not go un-noticed. I stand by the above quoted figures. Could it be you are a member of the petrol guzzling Nissan/Landcruiser fraternity who simply can't comprehend the fact that diesels go further on a litre of fuel!

Derek, Even though he can't spell or use correct grammar and is a sarcastic little person, Bat does have a point. People are so often vague, inaccurate and unscientific when it comes to fuel useage. One of the replies for example refers to 1100km between fills ..... but at what point did he fill? Were his tanks bone dry? Or maybe there was one litre left .... maybe there were 5 litres left .... or maybe 25!!! I wish he'd told us how much he used and how many kms he travelled! My vehicle has two tanks totalling 159l. When I fill at about 1100km they rarely take more than 130l. Therefore to say I get 1100km from two tanks is quite misleading. I always work on the amount of fuel I put into the tanks when calculating l/100km.

And what's more Fred, his 1100km are, to use his own words, an "approximate average". Dougie that's very vague and tells me very little!! But good on you for trying!

Fred. Point taken. And thank you for your politeness. I may have been a little hasty in my original posting. I based my figures on the fact that I went to Rocky and back without refueling and that according to my owner's manual my fuel tanks are 50 litres and 95 litres (you may be able to shed more light on this). My brother in law put roughly the same amount of fuel into his Nissan over the trip and he also recorded a figure in the vicinity of 25mpg using a 'gasculator'. In hind sight I should have ignored Bat's comment, as my reaction was counter productive to the purpose of this forum and for that I apologise. Derek.