Triton Fuel Consumption

Submitted: Wednesday, Jan 05, 2011 at 00:35
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I've recently purchased a 2003 Mitsubishi Triton Single Cab Ute with a 2.8L turbo diesel engine. My average fuel consumption is around 14L/100kms. I would have expected better fuel consumption than this due to the size of the engine and it being a turbo diesel. (My 80 Series has better consumption than this Triton). I'm not sure whether this is normal or whether I have another issue with the vehicle that I need to have looked at. Can anyone verify whether this fuel consumption is around what it should be. Cheers.
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Reply By: greybeard - Wednesday, Jan 05, 2011 at 00:51

Wednesday, Jan 05, 2011 at 00:51
i've got a 2006 2.8tdi dual cab. standard tyres 265/70 16.
it's got just under 140,000k on the clock.
over ~ 48,000km best economy was 10.8l/100k, worst 14.6l/100k average 11.9l/100k.
worst was when towing a camper at fairly high speed ;)
i've got a 134l long range tank and usually fill up at around the 1000k mark ( tank still has varying amounts of fuel ). I think the distance I do between fills tends to average out the best and worst as it's fairly rare to be doing one extreme or another for 1000km. Although the worst figures were done on a trip through the pilbarra and seemed to be pretty consistent.

gb
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Reply By: drjfly - Wednesday, Jan 05, 2011 at 09:41

Wednesday, Jan 05, 2011 at 09:41
I have an 05 Single Cab and around town and with a canopy on I normally average around the 12l/100km. On a recent trip to the cape fully loaded and towing a boat I got the following mileages. You can see the variations are quite dramatic and the reason was what type of driving was involved and whether I had the foot down or up. You can see the trip up was a lot more sedate than the trip home. (Canopies and head winds can also be a killer).

13.63
12.80
13.12
13.35
13.55
13.64
18.95
13.43
19.71
15.03
14.46
15.61
15.47

Regards
Darren
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Reply By: - mazcan - Wednesday, Jan 05, 2011 at 12:16

Wednesday, Jan 05, 2011 at 12:16
hi turbo cruise
if you go onto this triton site you should get some answers
www.newtriton.net
cheers
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