Fuel Consumption

[Fredoops]

thats nice man.....for me 350kmh is just about to have the fuel light kick in.....LOL.....crap car i have....hahaha

I blame bodykit and them rims lol

[TRaNz]

I blame bodykit and them rims lol

hahaha, but but but but, they're genuine and rare....probably the only one in Aust to rock them =D

[liberty68]

Guys ,

if your car is lowered with eibach springs does it effect fuel economy ? also if you change wheels from 17' to 18'

[Fredoops]

Guys ,

if your car is lowered with eibach springs does it effect fuel economy ? also if you change wheels from 17' to 18'

Yes, but how much difference depends on the setup, width/weight of rims etc etc etc

I remember someone said each kg gained on the wheels is the equivalent of 4 or 5 kg gained on the bodywork or something..

[chuboy]

Filled all the way up with Caltex 98 fuel. Then I did ~100km of <5 min 'cold engine' trips, ~230km of highway cruising then ~330km of reasonably lead-footed city driving.

I just filled up with 98 again from the same pump. According to the trip computer I drove 559.8km using 50.3L of fuel (which works out to be about 8.985 L/100km). The trip computer showed my fuel consumption as 8.7 L/100km. So the trip computer appears to be about 0.3 L/100km optimistic judging by other posts here as well.

EDIT: I got stock 16" wheels at 36psi (although they were about 31-32psi for half of this tank. I'm surprised how differently the car handles when you pump the tyres a little harder).

[[SDCTVE]]

I get about 10 ish. Does anyone know how far the car can go from when the light comes on till it runs out of juice?

according to the owners manual there's about 10L left when the reserve light comes on, so depends what you averaged for the first 55 liters.

I got 500K's (2003 manual luxury, done about 128,000kms) before the light came on, mostly urban driving using Caltex Vortex 95, with the occasional heavy foot on the pedal, but most of the time changing at about 3500 for the early gears and about 2500-3000 for the higher gears.

so out of 55 liters I got 500k's = 11L/100kms..... not bad, I'm gonna try BP ultimate next, shifting no higher then 3000 and hope to get 600k's before the fuel light comes on!

[MingZai]

11/100?? not bad??? thats horrible isn't it......

[[SDCTVE]]

11/100?? not bad??? thats horrible isn't it......

It's not that bad considering the amount of kms, almost due for a service and the occasionally hitting 5500-6000 rpm.

whats your fuel consumption like?

[MingZai]

i got like 440km..... worse then u... I think I hit VTEC too much....

[Musti]

Sorry if this has been mentioned before, but everyone should make an account on fuelly.com - it just makes it easier to track how much you've spent, distance travelled and all of that sort of stuff. And you can search for specific cars. It's free. (And I promise I'm not affiliated with them)

[euRo_noob]

I'm surprised I've been able to keep my car at 8.9L/100km for the past month and a bit. I do a lot of short trips (picking up brothers, groceries, driving to the city, friends house etc). I also do drive in peak hour/school hours quite a bit and once in a while, I'd get 10-25mins on the freeway. Guess the light footed driving is working. I do hit VTEC here and there but I try not to since my car is still fairly new.

[[SDCTVE]]

well I filled up on thursday, and I've just hit 300kms, and the fuel guage needle is sitting just over half a tank! I have been changing gears less then 3000rpm about 85% of the time, which is pretty good for me, I was a bit of a hard driver, I've calmed down heaps. this time i filled up premium 95 from 7-11 (previously a mobil) so i dont know where 7-11 is sourcing their fuel from now, but from memory 7-11 fuel was shit house! but im pretty pleased considering the last tank of fuel was caltex vortex 95, and at about 250kms my fuel guage was pretty much half way!