Fuel Economy - What do you get out of a tank? (3rd gens only)

[Tonba]

Im getting around 11.2l ~ 11.5l per 100kms in the ralliart.

Hoping to see it go down when i get my haltech installed and tuned...oh... and drive a 'lil more sedately... :p

[Boozer]

Got as low as 9.2L/100km at the start on a country drive before finishing at about 9.8L there and back... averaging mainly 110km/h for about 90% of the trip the other 10% was varied speeds as well as my partner's dad was holding on to 4th gear at 80km/h,3rd at 60km/h!!! at some stages.
Not bad for a 3.5 manual vrx i thought. i think it used nearly the same as my TF 3.0 auto

[Yellow_03]

2003 TJ VRX series 2 (stock) $60 of petrol or 50L put in = 350km at the very most. Now that is ****house

[mjd26]

2003 TJ VRX series 2 (stock) $60 of petrol or 50L put in = 350km at the very most. Now that is ****house

Yes; it really is.

You should perhaps be getting your car looked over to see exactly why it's like that.
Perhaps your hand brake is permanently on?
Maybe your transmission isn't working right?
Maybe your air filter is a solid lump of gunk?
Maybe your spark plugs no longer have a decent spark gap?

I'm getting better mileage than that on LPG!

[omar]

My car is currently doing 15.5+L/100km and thats with my driving it as slow as possible without air con. taking my car to the mechanic tomorrow to see what the heck is going on

it's slowly been getting higher and higher over the last few months and now it's just skyrocketed. my guess is the O2 sensor... my mates VZ SS is using less fuel and he's thrashing it

[Dave]

My record is a trip up to QLD at Xmas. I did the whole 900KM's on one tank Fair to say the tank was getting low, fuel light only started to blink on when i got to destination.

My average was about 7.1l/100km with a car full of camping gear, and could not have had a better run up the pacific hwy. These Magna's are superb cars. My dad has a new SVZ Commo wagon pulling a laden trailer, and was getting about 13.5l/100km's

Saying that, i drove back beginning of January when that horrendous rain hit the NSW north coast, i used up 1 and a half tanks to get back to sydney, and drove solid for 18 hours

[Boozer]

My record is a trip up to QLD at Xmas. I did the whole 900KM's on one tank Fair to say the tank was getting low, fuel light only started to blink on when i got to destination.

My average was about 7.1l/100km with a car full of camping gear, and could not have had a better run up the pacific hwy. These Magna's are superb cars. My dad has a new SVZ Commo wagon pulling a laden trailer, and was getting about 13.5l/100km's

Saying that, i drove back beginning of January when that horrendous rain hit the NSW north coast, i used up 1 and a half tanks to get back to sydney, and drove solid for 18 hours

take it that your car is auto? it sits so so much lower in the rev range when cruising at 100km/h or 110km/h which is why you will see a bit of difference between the autos and manuals in long trips

[Timmah]

2003 TJ VRX series 2 (stock) $60 of petrol or 50L put in = 350km at the very most. Now that is ****house

I'm getting the same thing for my 2003 TL VR-X. Had to fill up at 370km today though, it's the most I've got out of a tank since I bought it.

It's due for a service soon, so I'll get my mechanic to look over it and see why it's chewing through so much fuel.

[omar]

I'm getting the same thing for my 2003 TL VR-X. Had to fill up at 370km today though, it's the most I've got out of a tank since I bought it.

It's due for a service soon, so I'll get my mechanic to look over it and see why it's chewing through so much fuel.

im about the same... im takin it to Mitsu tomorrow morning to change the O2 sensor, i'll let you guys know what the verdict is!

[Spackbace]

grr someone delete my post without saying why? didnt say anything bad on it


last tank i got 550k's out of it, with about 5L left, so couldve got around 600k's, and most of the tank i had aircon on, and around 150k's of the tank was on a cruise, which involved spirited driving and high speeds...