More than happy with economy
Submitted: Sunday, Nov 23, 2008 at 20:31
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stefan & 12 times Dakar winner
Was a little worried when I got the Pajero as it being Petrol I thought it might guzzle it a bit, But after 2 months of owing it, I have been blown away by how economical it is for a V6.
The facts,
549lt of regular unleaded to travel 4230 Kms
=12.97Lt per 100kms
Thats with a 2" lift, spotties, standard size tyres and a roof basket, mixture of about 75% round town and the rest freeway and one days 4WDing. I am impressed. I did read that when the pajeros went back to a SOHC motor the economy improved alot. This thing uses less lt per hundred than my Gu 2.8 diesel did.
Cheers Stefan
Reply By: Member - Mark G (NSW) - Sunday, Nov 23, 2008 at 20:48
Sunday, Nov 23, 2008 at 20:48
STEFAN
is that with your wife driving or you?
just a thought?
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Follow Up By: stefan & 12 times Dakar winner - Sunday, Nov 23, 2008 at 20:52
Sunday, Nov 23, 2008 at 20:52
she hates the 4by, much prefers her Dunnydoor :)
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Follow Up By: Member - Mark G (NSW) - Sunday, Nov 23, 2008 at 21:07
Sunday, Nov 23, 2008 at 21:07
STEFAN
is that with weight in it like soccer balls,nets & all the gear that goes with weekend mum duties?
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Follow Up By: stefan & 12 times Dakar winner - Sunday, Nov 23, 2008 at 21:48
Sunday, Nov 23, 2008 at 21:48
bit to close to the truth there Mark ;-P as the wife works most weekends!!!! LOL
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Follow Up By: Sir Kev & Darkie - Monday, Nov 24, 2008 at 09:19
Monday, Nov 24, 2008 at 09:19
There must be Helium in those soccer balls to reduce the weight of the Poojero ;)
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Reply By: Gone Bush (WA) - Sunday, Nov 23, 2008 at 20:56
Sunday, Nov 23, 2008 at 20:56
You don't see headlines like that very often these days.
Oh, I see you're talking about fuel consumption......
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Follow Up By: stefan & 12 times Dakar winner - Sunday, Nov 23, 2008 at 20:59
Sunday, Nov 23, 2008 at 20:59
I'll pay that......be carefull its not funny so keep the humor down hey ;)
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Follow Up By: stefan & 12 times Dakar winner - Sunday, Nov 23, 2008 at 20:59
Sunday, Nov 23, 2008 at 20:59
should read its not FRIDAY
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Reply By: Member - Porl - Sunday, Nov 23, 2008 at 21:14
Sunday, Nov 23, 2008 at 21:14
Well I had a 3.4L v6 petrol prado and sold it, not an economy issue, and ended up with a diesel naturally aspirated 3.0L hilux (lot cheaper) and am unable to get over 11L/100km (not towing anything) and that includes Fraser Island inland tracks. Around town it's 9 - 10. And soon I'm going to ditch the 15" alloys with 31" tyres for a set of 16" steels with Coopers something but 1/4" shorter and narrower (at the moment in the shed as the 31" approach illegal tread depth), from all third party comments I expect the economy to improve a tad more.
That against the prado which around town was about 14 - 15L/100km and offroad,
well needless to say I've seen the gauge move when bogged and thrashing low range, so around the 17 - 20L/100km.
Doing simple maths I am so far ahead, at least 27% on suburban runs, this takes care of diesel being on average 20% more expensive, and oil maintenance periods don't bother me as do a lot myself.
The big difference I find is offroad whereas you need to tickle upwards on a petrol ( and consumption heads that direction too) to get the torque to move, with a diesel the
wheels just chug round and round at slowly around the 2000rpm mark and you chug out of the boggy bits. Love it. Won't go back, but then again we all have different purposes and desires so I don't begrudge your change, of course I had no experience with the venerable but often criticised 2.8 patrol ( and don't start me on my front end diff).
Keen to hear more.
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Follow Up By: stefan & 12 times Dakar winner - Sunday, Nov 23, 2008 at 21:30
Sunday, Nov 23, 2008 at 21:30
The old 2.8 GU was trying to push 2600kgs around and struggled to do so hence 16li per hundred was normal for that car. While a nice big diesel would have great low down power. The petrol in the Paj and 2.8 diesel in the Patrol hit Max power at about the same revs.
Most diesels should get better than a Petrol, but 12.97 average for a V6 pushing a brick is pretty fair I reckon
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Follow Up By: Member - Porl - Sunday, Nov 23, 2008 at 21:51
Sunday, Nov 23, 2008 at 21:51
that's scary figures for your old diesel, you did
well then, enjoy this petrol price. And yeah, on my v6 prado best i got was fraction below 12/100km but with no-one else in the vehicle and nothing else than me and sitting below 100, so good buy with the paj.
cheers
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Reply By: Zukscooter - Sunday, Nov 23, 2008 at 22:36
Sunday, Nov 23, 2008 at 22:36
My last
tank of fuel for the 7.3 F250 13.7 ltr per 100k.Getting better i think,but have been happy since new.
Bob
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Reply By: Dave Thomson - Monday, Nov 24, 2008 at 14:49
Monday, Nov 24, 2008 at 14:49
Glad you found life after the troll Stefan, mates got your model and he's near clocked up 400K's and it still got heaps of grunt very reliable too,
regards,
Dave
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