Member Since: 09 Oct 2006
Location: NORTH WEST
Posts: 67
FUEL CONSUMPTION
Done 1200 miles now from new (TDV6 S Auto ) and the readout shows 30.4.I commute 22 miles to work on A roads with very little town driving.The consumption is the same as my old TD5.Also owned a Jeep Cherokee 2.5 diesel manual (24 mpg),Shogun 2.8 diesel auto (24 mpg), Jeep Grand Cherokee 2.7 diesel (26 mpg) and a Freelander 1.8 petrol (30 mpg).I don't use air-con unless I have to and rarely use kickdown.A friend has an X5 which does 25-30 mpg.When I had the TD5 I met another owner with a TD5 who was getting 13 mpg and had it booked in at Land Rover to find the problem!
Anyone out there with a chipped TD6 to compare fuel consumption?
9th Nov 2006 10:54 am
nobbyclark
Member Since: 03 May 2005
Location: Perth, Scotland
Posts: 1268
I can drive from SW London to Perth (463 miles) on a tank of diesel in the D3 and still have a few miles spare; my old TDi would need to be refuelled after about 420-430. Considering the tank is smaller in the D3 and the engine is larger, I'm impressed with the better economy. Then again, it did cost me a net expense of £25,000 to achieve this...No longer a D3 owner but still subscribed to multiple threads!
9th Nov 2006 12:51 pm
Angel1403
Member Since: 14 Oct 2006
Location: Scotland
Posts: 59
Dealer Comment
I am aware that there are some dealers registered.
Any comments from you.............Is this normal..................Should I get it checked...........or a software update?
I think they are all done?
Cheers
Allan
9th Nov 2006 10:50 pm
MG D3 Decade
Member Since: 08 Nov 2005
Location: Surrey
Posts: 217
On a run I can achieve over 500 miles on a tank of diesel. Mixed driving I get about 400....what is the best range anyone has achieved I wonder? MG
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10th Nov 2006 9:26 am
TDMP
Member Since: 16 Jul 2006
Location: South Gippsland
Posts: 511
Doctor Diesel wrote:
OR the fuel....50:50 mix of diesel & camel pee
I thought you lot used bee pee over there???Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent.
Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent.
Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil?
Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?
(Epicurus BC 341-270)
11th Nov 2006 2:02 am
croyde
Member Since: 17 Aug 2005
Location: SE England
Posts: 459
Ours was doing about 21 mpg around town. Short trips, school runs, shops etc. But it was hitting around 28 mpg on a long run down to the South of France, mostly 80 mph plus and a bit of off-roading.
Since the one year service with about 9000 miles on the clock, which included a software upgrade, the car is amazingly fast, for a 2.7 tonne brick, but guzzles fuel at around 16 mpg.
Anyone else found this after the upgrade?
11th Nov 2006 2:19 am
kjh1957
Member Since: 05 Nov 2005
Location: Northamptonshire
Posts: 44
My TDV6 auto was doing 26 MPG before the enhancement and is now doing 23.4 MPG driving very gently - It is booked in to see what is going on. Some enhancement!
Does seem to be a strange range of figs.
We have post enhancement & tc'd car, avge 20.3 mpg.
Wife does most of the driving, short trips are the norm.
The BMW 530A sport (petrol) Touring we used to have avgd 23-24 doing the same trips, I was expecting the Disco to be better than the bm, have to admit I am a litte disappointed with the figs.
Happy with everything else though.
Filled up today and managed to put in 83 ltrs of BP Ultimate unleaded at 97p a ltr OUCH!!!!!!
Nick - is that OUCH as you should have put diesel in? If not, would have thought that 20mpg was good for a V8.Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana
Thankfully it was a typo NOT a misfuel, however ....
At my garage there are only 2 pumps that have the ultimate diesel. First couple of times I went there I by chance went to the pumps that had the ultimate diesel, the third or so time I had to go to a different pump & very very nearly put in BP Ultimate unleaded as the logo etc was very similar and I was not expecting the pump not to have the Ultimate Diesel, bet this causes all sorts of problems.
I actually had wrong nozzel in my hand, however penetration had not been commenced........
11th Nov 2006 11:06 pm
SN
Member Since: 03 Jan 2006
Location: Romiley
Posts: 13710
Prompted by the 97p a litre for diesl I went and checked petrolprices.com for prices near me and - 88.9p seems best.
As an aside I followed another link off that site and read the Guardian Review of the 10 Most Tree-Huggy Cars you can buy
What I was amazed to learn was that you can switch the Toyota Pius to electric only - and it will run for precisely 1 mile only on its batteries Fat lot of good that is!Steve N | 21MY Defender | 08MY Discovery 3 (history) | 06MY Discovery 3 (ancient history)
11th Nov 2006 11:22 pm
croyde
Member Since: 17 Aug 2005
Location: SE England
Posts: 459
That Guardian selection does not rock my boat. It said a selection including sports cars. Where were they?
12th Nov 2006 11:49 am
Land Rover Nat
Member Since: 04 Feb 2006
Location: Buckie Scotland
Posts: 85
Before Enhancement care ful driving to work about 25miles had an average of 27.3 mpg. After the enhancement it went up to 30.6 for the same journey. Car went back for a compressor change. now all I get is about 24mpg. I am confused wondering what the comprtessor has to do with the fuel economy?
12th Nov 2006 2:45 pm
Richard(Jim)B
Member Since: 02 Sep 2006
Location: Onsala
Posts: 55
We are currently on 28mpg exactly with lots of short runs plus some queueing and a couple of 1000km long runs. This is with roof bars on and studded snow tyres. It has also been cold enough to run the webasto heater.
Post enhancement also. Our fuel consumption has decreased (got better) during the time we have had the D3. I'm really pleased with the consumption...
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