Thread: Patrol 4.2tdi fuel usage.

After a couple of trips chasing deer,I checked fuel used.14.2litres/100ks which I thort was pretty good for a old wagon.

Mind you the air con was on for the returns trips to keep the venison cold.

Originally Posted by Trout

Mind you the air con was on for the returns trips to keep the venison cold.

That appropriate. Its shaped like a fridge

They didn't get into the history books for their economy!

Originally Posted by Trout

After a couple of trips chasing deer,I checked fuel used.14.2litres/100ks which I thort was pretty good for a old wagon.

Ive just put grippier Cooper tyres on the Ranger from the ToyoAT and diesel use has jumped .5L/100 immediately.

Good old Friction.

Just returned from a 10 day trip to Northland in ours @520,000km. Not towing anything, did 11L/100km. Its wearing Cooper SRX's.

I know when the wife throws the float and horsey on the back it drops to about 16L/100km.

But came back in two seperate wagons: found one with significantly less km on the clock, and no bloody 'rain roof', so picked it up relatively cheap, and over the next couple of months will tart up the old truck and hopefully make the change over for just a few thou $$.

Will be keeping an eye on consumption of the new wagon. Keen to see if there is any significant difference.

Certainly a different feel to the whole truck, with a couple of hundy less on the clock.

If you went to Repco or Nissan and grabbed a new set of bushes all around and did the engine, body mounts, and steering and suspension dampers you'd get a phenomenal improvement in noise/vibration/harshness intruding into the cabin and also with tracking and ride on the road. Giving the thing a mechanical tart up and checking out injector flow and injection pump settings along with air filters is the other part. When I did mine I got something like 3/4L reduction in fuel useage per 100 just from that work - controlling everything so it's not hopping all over the road makes a surprising difference apparently.

They are not the best geared units (the engine trans and cases come out of Nissan's light truck parts line) and as mentioned have the aerodynamics of a cinder block which helps - not. I was getting around the 11/100 when I upgraded mine to a D22, that was more comfortable and quieter but not much better in terms of economy. In comparison the Ranger PXII is returning 8.1L/100Km, doing it quicker, quieter and more comfortably and actually does something when the right boot goes down.

Originally Posted by Tahr

Ive just put grippier Cooper tyres on the Ranger from the ToyoAT and diesel use has jumped .5L/100 immediately.

Coopers good tyers,get you out of those muddy paddocks.

I think my land rover 200tdi discovery does 10-11L/100km since I put 32" MT's on it recently. With the old smaller tyres it was more like 8L/100km, it could do 1000km from an 80L tank on the open road.

I only replace parts when the wof tells me or the part breaks.And that hasnt been to much in the last 589000ks 18yrs.

i just rebuuilt mine td42 manual 250hp, i get 600-700km per tank

I can squeeze around 650-670ks out of my 95litr tank if im nice.

Have you spent $10k on it so that it can do 100 kmh? @Stump what’s your economy like?

Originally Posted by Trout

After a couple of trips chasing deer,I checked fuel used.14.2litres/100ks which I thort was pretty good for a old wagon.

Cheap runner compared to mine. Usually around 17/100. Gets over 20 towing the quad. 325k and second owner since new and still stock. Will run it up to KRAE next year some time for a few upgrades including injectors and pump.