MY FD ONLY TAKES ME 450km FULL TANK AND ITS BRAND NEW

[aaronng]

The only way to get ADR figures is to not have traffic lights, hills and traffic jams in city driving.

[Joele]

They won't listen to you until you've done at least 5,000kms anyway. They need a larger timeframe to monitor it. We've had similar instances with VW customers. They expected ADR quoted figures on the first week.

I have done 6,000 now, will bring it up at 10,000km service but who knows where it will get me...

ADR I believe is 7.3 combined for the Auto..

[Joele]

The only way to get ADR figures is to not have traffic lights, hills and traffic jams in city driving.

Denot said his uncle is beating ADR doing deliveries in the city..

[UNLS1]

doing short trips also is bad for fuel consumtion!

[aaronng]

Denot said his uncle is beating ADR doing deliveries in the city..

I would ask how did he calculate the fuel consumption numbers? Unless he did the fill to the top, drive and refill to the top method, I don't trust the numbers.

[Joele]

I would ask how did he calculate the fuel consumption numbers? Unless he did the fill to the top, drive and refill to the top method, I don't trust the numbers.

Thats the way I do mine, fill to full and drive until the light comes on.. 40L -> 42L consistantly (depends on how quickly I can find a servo when the light comes on LOL)

[aaronng]

Thats the way I do mine, fill to full and drive until the light comes on.. 40L -> 42L consistantly (depends on how quickly I can find a servo when the light comes on LOL)

What's your exact fuel consumption, say for the last tank that you filled? You gave a rough estimate of filling with 40-42L and driving 380-420km. Eventhough that sounds like a narrow range of numbers, it can give you anything from a best of 9.5L/100km to a worse of 11L/100km.

[Joele]

Last tank is a bad example as that was on holiday in the country, so 90% hwy driving...

hwy one was 7.22
3 city before that were: 9.36, 11.02, 10.94

[aaronng]

Last tank is a bad example as that was on holiday in the country, so 90% hwy driving...

hwy one was 7.22
3 city before that were: 9.36, 11.02, 10.94

How much throttle do you use when you take off from traffic lights? Your numbers are slightly better than an auto Euro with its bigger engine, but still loses out to the manual Euro. Maybe the R18a engine in the VTi is only fuel efficient at small accelerator positions.

[denot]

Denot said his uncle is beating ADR doing deliveries in the city..

meh... i dunno, i didnt measure this myself... so hopefully he's not drunk this morning when I rang him...

but ask buddah51au he is an ex mechanic and his fuel consumption is amazing... check this thread: http://www.ozhonda.com/forum/showthread.php?t=69019

and here is his consumption before:
549km....37.04 lts......6.75 L/100km
553km....37.62 lts......6.80 L/100km
517km....35.62 lts......6.89 L/100km
496km....34.28 lts......6.51 L/100km
485km....33.33 lts......6.87 L/100km
524km....36.59 lts......6.98 L/100km
444km....29.62 lts......6.67 L/100km
439km....29.30 lts......6.67 L/100km

[aaronng]

Try driving with very light throttle for 1 tank to see if it improves dramatically. I usually take off slowly and let the old ladies in the 2.2 auto camrys zoom off into the distance.

[Frost_FD]

Yes new engines takes time to adjust so they consume a little bit more pertol, i was getting 480 km on 40 litres but since i have worn the engine in 35000KM now i get 550 KM. Ever since i installed 19" weighing 100kg+ it does 500KM.

After i installed my CAI it does 530 KM now.