Thread: New Hilux Fuel Consumption

Originally Posted by Russian 22.

how would the dye help if the engine burns the fuel to run?

They can sample the tank or container.
Think Britain has similar

Originally Posted by hotbarrels

A snorkel is designed to keep water out of your engine when you are wading in deep water. As a bonus, in dusty conditions at reasonable speed, they will reduce the dust intake. They are restrictive to air flow and if added to a stock engine with no other mods to counter their restrictive nature, will pull back horsepower and reduce economy.

Tell me more please.?
I had a snorkel fitted when I bought mine, before I drove it away, mine was more for dusty roads than water, but...
What other mods should I be considering.?

Originally Posted by jakewire

Tell me more please.?
I had a snorkel fitted when I bought mine, before I drove it away, mine was more for dusty roads than water, but...
What other mods should I be considering.?

What i don't get is some snorkel brands advertise more fuel efficiency by adding a snorkel

The biggest problem the OP has is he is expecting to get at or near the manufacturers quoted consumption figures.
The quoted consumption figures for hwy city or combined are how the vehicle performed in a standardised test that has nothing to do with real world driving.
The tests are standardised to enable the consumer to compare apples with apples when researching the fuel usage of a prospective vehicle.

They in no way indicate that the vehicle should achieve said figures in real world driving and it (any vehicle) probably wont unless you drive slow enough to get shit thrown out the window at you.

Originally Posted by Tahr

When I was a kid farmers didn't pay any tax on their farm petrol. Petrol that was bulk delivered to the farm was dyed (blue I think) to ensure that it was only used for farm use. Late 1950's

Know of a cocky who was having problems with IRD, they wanted to place die in the farm tanks to see where the fuel was heading, this was approx. 20 years ago

@stagstalker asked a couple hilux owners.
2020 D/C auto SR flatdeck, snorkel, 18" rims ATs sitting on 11 never been reset, heavy boot
2021 d/c auto sr5 canopy, tows a trailer a bit around 10-10.5
2022 d/c auto sr5 canopy very low kms sitting on around 11 unsure if thats including towing his 6.5m boat

The 2021 owner said one way to drink diesel is running in cruise control

Originally Posted by tetawa

Know of a cocky who was having problems with IRD, they wanted to place die in the farm tanks to see where the fuel was heading, this was approx. 20 years ago

Know a cocky who does a lot of farming at Waihau Bay and shifting his cattle 12 miles out. LOL. .

Originally Posted by Russian 22.

how would the dye help if the engine burns the fuel to run?

Most engines in those days would run on all sorts of mixs with a bit of octane thrown in. Kerosene mixed up with abit of whisky would get my fathers old Farmal H tractor going it he was short of petrol in the 50-60s.

Noticed a glitch today normally about 11or 12l came right though!

Originally Posted by csmiffy

They can sample the tank or container.
Think Britain has similar

Britain they have a marine fuel that is one colour, a farm fuel thats another and the road is a different one again. Heaven help you if you get caught with the wrong colour in the wrong tank...

If you have dye in the fuel, it's a pain in the arse and can screw up your filters bigtime. The colouring chemical they put in at the fuel supplier isn't a dye as such so won't settle out like a dye can. Used to use the purple spray marker dye in diesel at an outfit I used to work at where the diesel was used as a process fuel and we needed to know how the mix was. It was quite hard on the fuel system and one dose of dye would last for several tank fills as it settled out below the tank pickup and you needed to have more in the tank to force it to stain the fuel. The dye also seemed to drag water out of the fuel which was a pain, and the other thing the dye did was it seemed to force the wax to settle out of the diesel at a warmer temperature than otherwise so in a cold snap the fuel filters clogged up with a waxy, wet purple ooze that stained everything that got within 15m... Nasty.

Originally Posted by Trout

Most engines in those days would run on all sorts of mixs with a bit of octane thrown in. Kerosene mixed up with abit of whisky would get my fathers old Farmal H tractor going it he was short of petrol in the 50-60s.

by the sounds of it you could use old cooking oil from the chinese takeaway with a bit of acetone added!

Originally Posted by jakewire

Tell me more please.?
I had a snorkel fitted when I bought mine, before I drove it away, mine was more for dusty roads than water, but...
What other mods should I be considering.?

Check out newhilux.net
It's an Aust based forum. Plenty of info there to consider.

From what I remember Britan has no dye in their road (taxed) diesel, and farm diesel has a dye in it that makes it look orange, quite noticable but is reffered to as 'red' diesel.

They could quickly check road vehicles by dipping tanks or at the water trap.

We never had any issues with the dye effecting any of our machinery.

Pros and cons.

Quick update. I did a week of running to and from work and got some proper numbers to calculate. 587km for 65L of fuel. By my math that gave me 11.07L per 100km. My dash reading has dropped over the week to 12.5L but obviously still quite a ways out as a few of you said it would be. Interesting