TD5 Fuel Comsumption

[bvudzichena]

Hi first fill up was after 300km.

150km were on motorways and 200km were in the city.
It took 48 litres to fill the truck up, so that comes to 7.29 km/l or 17 mpg.

Is this normal fuel consumption for a TD5?

[bvudzichena]

Second fill up:

45.88litres of diesel and 379 km travelled. Of this 280km was on the motorway and the rest in town.

This time I got 8.26 km/l or 19mpg.

Is this normal for this vehicle?

[James Withnall]

No and No

seems very high to me, i get averging on a good run 29/30mpg on a bad one 27 mpg

i know that too low tyre pressure can effect consumption but not by 10mpg, would check the obvious first like air filter, inlet pipes (see if they are collapsing, egr valve see if this is stuck open..

i am sure others will have suggestions shortly

brgds

[Neil M]

Just got 30mpg on long run from my '99 TD5, 25 round town.
Neil

[Roger Whittle]

I do lots of town driving, with about half my mileage on motorway type roads (>70) and I routinely get more than 400 miles on a fill, which is 70-72 litres. Mine's automatic as well.

Roger.

[bvudzichena]

No and No

i know that too low tyre pressure can effect consumption but not by 10mpg, would check the obvious first like air filter, inlet pipes (see if they are collapsing, egr valve see if this is stuck open..

brgds

I'll get onto the tyre pressure. I've checked the air cleaner and that's brand new.

What's the egr valve and where do I find it?

[bvudzichena]

I do lots of town driving, with about half my mileage on motorway type roads (>70) and I routinely get more than 400 miles on a fill, which is 70-72 litres. Mine's automatic as well.

Roger.

Looks to me that you are getting about 26 miles to the gallon. That's much better than I'm getting.

Something's wrong with my truck.

[NomadABC]

On our regular run to Norfolk and back, I can get around 500 miles per tank. And that is after "giving it some" on the awful A17. High 20's upto low 30's otherwise.

[ThomasH]

I get about 9.5 km per litre. 80% motorway @ approx 70-80 mph and the rest short distances. When occasionally towing a horsebox (2500kg) this drops to about 7 km per litre.
Regards,
Thomas

[tomm]

I'm getting close to 500miles on a tank (85-90 litres on refill)
When I stick it on cruise at 90mph and do a 360mile round trip this goes down to 420ish.
Mine is a TD5 auto.

Been writing my mileages on on all my fuel receipts .. always filling tank back up to top .. will work out my average consumptions soon ...

[bvudzichena]

Been writing my mileages on on all my fuel receipts .. always filling tank back up to top .. will work out my average consumptions soon ...

Cheers mate!

[Bush Tucker Man]

As a parallell, I get between 30 & 35MPG average from my (standard, & a manual) 110Td5 Station Wagon

My old Discovery Tdi (manual) managed similar figures

[bvudzichena]

I'm beginning to wonder if it's got something to do with the quality of the diesel that I use.

We don't have the Tesco's and Asda's (i.e. Pick 'n Pay and Shoprite/Checkers) of South Africa selling fuel, so we are very much bound to the big fuel companies.

I use Engen. In the "bad old days" Mobil sold their local operation to the SA management and the oil company was rebranded to Engen. Engen have a "dynamic low sulpher diesel" that I always fill up with. My reason for using them has nothing to do with the fuel, it's all about the fact that their pumps pump slower that the other companies, so I can fill the three aux tanks on my 110 to the brim. If I use a Shell, BP, Caltex or SASOL filling station, there's lot of foam and it takes a very long time to get the tanks full.

My 110 CV SW gives me about 27-30mpg.

I'm going to let the tank run near dry and then fill up with Shell and repeat the process with BP diesel.

SASOL do a "turbo diesel" diesel. SASOL (Suid Afrikaanse Steenkool, Olie en Gaskorporasie - SA Coal, Oil and Gas Co-op) is another remnant of the "old days".

I have a theory that a number of high ranking nazi's escaped from Germany in 1945/6 and made their way to South Africa. The nonesense (i.e. the grand dream of Apartheid) started here in 1948.

It's only now that we are able to stand back and look at the whole thing objectively and we can see all the parallels between Adolph's National Socialist Party and the SA National Party. We can also see how we were brainwashed in exactly the same way that the Hitler Youth League was. All of us who went to high school here used to have to go to school for one day a week in military uniform for "cadets".

Enough politics. Why am I telling you this? It gets back to SASOL. Shortly after the end of WWII, the new SA governent formed this organisation called SASOL to use coal as the raw material for making fuel and LPG.

Back to politics. No prizes for guessing who's chemists had been working on this since 1933 and who "disappeared" after WWII never to be seen or heard from again.

Adolph Hilter's dreams live on at every SASOL pump in South Africa - and that is why I won't use them.

[BigE]

Really - this forum is not for nonsense politics.

[rikbowles]

I have a 1999 TD5 with 127000 (miles) on the clock and get 30 mpg on the urban cycle, 2 miles to work and 2 miles home with the weekend taxi service for the family, on a run on the motorway/A roads get 35 mpg using the cheapest fuel I can find and people say Hiclones don't work!!!!!!!!!!!

[mungo]

Really - this forum is not for nonsense politics.

Why not? And who says its nonsense?:dunno1: