EO Treks...Fuel usage...Got me stumped !

I guess if you are flogging the blazes out of a 4 cyl and coasting along in a 6 that may explain it. Also if the 6 is a modern hi tech versus a older style 4 then that could make a difference.

Same applies to 6 and 8

Lionel
this is a bit of an old hobby horse subject of mine. The answer is clear. It's a case of 'garbage in', 'garbage out'.

Look at trekfuel for Googs Tack for instance. For this track the closest fuelling points are at Glendambo and Ceduna - about 400km apart. But in the data, people have logged 780 and 2000km trips. Conditions along much / most of those trips would have had little to do with Googs conditions.

The worst case is for the Anne Beadell Highway, where Grey Nomad mixed up 'used' and 'carried' fuel volumes and re-entered the data - both entry's were carried unfortunately.

See thread 48619 also. Still waiting on Kerry from EO to look at these issues, but nonetheless Kerry makes some good points.

I think main thing is people entering data need to use real care and everyone really should know what their own vehicle uses in different conditions before they go off on trips where fuel calc's are critical.

cheers JD

Hey Lional, I cant work this out myself but honestly.......in a recent trip to NT i was driving a v6 prado petrol and we where towing a camper trailer weighing in about 1100 kg's
our companion was driving a 4 cylinder diesel hilux and NOT towing anything, our fuel bill came in at $2455.71, our companions didnt give us an exact figure but said they spent about the same on fuel.

Well here are some figures to get your head around ,,so far on this trip, 92 Toyota factory turbo gxl auto , boat on roof rack , towing Campomatic camper trailer , all up weight 5180kg ,,,, Brisbane , cordillo downs , innaminka , port Augusta , back to Roxby downs , dirt to the Oodnadatta track to marla , Ayers rock , Kings Canyon ,Hermannsberg via dirt , Alice , Tanami to halls ck ,, Broome , Cape Leveque then down toKarratha ,, back up to Derby , Gibb river rd to Kunnanurra then to the Daly river , Darwin then Kakadu ,, Matarranka to Roper bar to Booroloola , Bourketown to Normantown to Undarra to Wonga beach to Cooktown , ,,, currently then off to the Cape on Monday ,,,
17563klm ......2877lts .......$5414 .......6.10klm per lt avg .....$1.88 per lt avg ..... dirt wherever possible ,,,,

Hi Lionel,

I've done a few side by side, km for km trips and kept tabs on fuel usage and the actual figures are sometimes surprising.

For example I did a trip to Meeka, German Well, Peak Hill etc in my GU 4500 Patrol and my mate was driving his F250 with the 7.3 V8. The F Truck used significantly less fuel.

I also travelled between Shark Bay and Perth with my GU and a 105 Cruiser 1HZJ and there wasn't that much in it.

When I did a comparison between my 105 GXL petrol and the 105 poverty pack diesel there wasn't that difference either which is why I'm prepared to pay a few bucks extra per hundred km's for some power and comfort.

Horses for courses (as always).

How did ya go with the head gasket?