Fuel Consumption (merged topic)

[Buf-Phoon]

Around town, stop start Sydney I get around 410 ks from a tank all nice and sedate of course

On the highway pre Mods I was getting around 550- 600 ks now , on like for like driving I am getting around 650 ks. Point is if you mod it , it will pay for itself eventually ( where is old Kent ) :lol:

If I give it to it, it sucks fuel harder than a ...........

[Guest Diablo]

Hi, to all,

I have been getting CRAP fuel consumption since I bought the car, took it to my local FORD dealer and as they tell me they have all the proper equipment to test if the car is running right - CRAP.

I went and had a friend who is a wiz with Turbo cars, you name it he works on it, he did a test with me driving and we found a problem.

When you accelerate the car gets fuel, when you back off the car should stop providing fuel – WRONG. The clowns at ford didn’t pick it up with their million dollar machine, So I would suggest that this is a common problem and that with the correct test - Pipe up the exhaust and a guy holding the computer who knows what he is doing, the fuel economy should improve.

Car is booked in next Tuesday with ford, I’ll let you know what happens.

[XRBloke]

So how come when you let your foot off the power the fuel goes down to like 2 litres per hundred??

Maniac have you tried resetting your average function?

Get it up on the screen and hold it in for a few seconds while on a highway run, you will find after alot of city driving its rather hard to get the things back down to a nice level my NA to start with wouldnt go below 20 in the first few hundred kays, then I reset it and I havent seen it above 13 and ive done about 800 kms since resetting.

My NA is sitting on about 12.6/100, which isnt all that fancy for an NA but since ive only done 1000 kms its all good.

My old man NA which has done close to 40,000 is currently sitting on about 17/100, the car very rarely hits the highway. But the point is the longer you leave it the higher it gets and the harder it is to get it back down.

Just to make sure my car is running in ok and nothing stupid is happening I calculated the average fuel to be 12.75 today after fueling up, maybe you should try it just to make sure theres nothing wrong with the computer (but by the sounds of the kms your getting out of each tank the computer is telling the truth).

Write down the kms you got out of the tank and also how many litres you had to put in it to fill it up. Then calculate it by dividing the amount of litres it took by the amount of kms then times it by 100, that will give you your average.

Trip computers are good but hardly serve a purpose excpet for the DTE function, the instant fuel thing really only sh*ts me off... As for your fuel consumption anything can happen, I think there was something going around about a fault with the VCT which was causing excessive fuel consumption.

[Honest Gaza]

Are all of your numbers based on the computer's calculations ? What happens if you only use the speedo reading between refills and then divide by the amount of litres to top up the tank ?

It could be that the car is using fuel ok, but that the "dynamic" calculations are incorrect. I currently get approx 500k's to a tank around Sydney and would be pretty upset if it dropped down as far as yours....even with the occasional bit of stick.

[aniken]

Last two tanks have been about 350km and time to fill up. 100% city driving lately. Have got over 600 (just) on the open road.

[aniken]

If I give it to it, it sucks fuel harder than a ........... :

atta girl?

[alanb007]

I have just done the actual fuel usage calcs over ~4000km

My consumption works out at 13.3 l/100 km.

Only a couple of long runs, mostly to and from work in easy traffic and flat to the floor whenever I get the chance ie it gets a good squirt, regularly.

If I remember rightly, the digital readout say ~14, so they are not too far out.

So, I agree with previous comments, check the real usage against the digital readout, this will help find where the problem is.

If the usage is real, there must be something really stuffed.

Good luck

Alan

[Guest]

Are all of your numbers based on the computer's calculations ? What happens if you only use the speedo reading between refills and then divide by the amount of litres to top up the tank ?

It could be that the car is using fuel ok, but that the "dynamic" calculations are incorrect. I currently get approx 500k's to a tank around Sydney and would be pretty upset if it dropped down as far as yours....even with the occasional bit of stick.

How in the *beep* can you get 500 out of a tank???Sounds like Ken would be even more exciting to go for a spin with

[turb06]

Hi, to all,

I have been getting CRAP fuel consumption since I bought the car, took it to my local FORD dealer and as they tell me they have all the proper equipment to test if the car is running right - CRAP.

I went and had a friend who is a wiz with Turbo cars, you name it he works on it, he did a test with me driving and we found a problem.

When you accelerate the car gets fuel, when you back off the car should stop providing fuel – WRONG. The clowns at ford didn’t pick it up with their million dollar machine, So I would suggest that this is a common problem and that with the correct test - Pipe up the exhaust and a guy holding the computer who knows what he is doing, the fuel economy should improve.

Car is booked in next Tuesday with ford, I’ll let you know what happens.

Would that then be spitting flames out the back if that was the case, and maybe hearing a backfire.

Dazza

[Honest Gaza]

Are all of your numbers based on the computer's calculations ?  What happens if you only use the speedo reading between refills and then divide by the amount of litres to top up the tank ?

It could be that the car is using fuel ok, but that the "dynamic" calculations are incorrect.  I currently get approx 500k's to a tank around Sydney and would be pretty upset if it dropped down as far as yours....even with the occasional bit of stick.

How in the *beep* can you get 500 out of a tank???Sounds like Ken would be even more exciting to go for a spin with

Don't be dissin Miss Daisy ( as my workmates liked to call me before I got the Turbo )

I admit that I ain't no speed freak...but if you don't want the bits of coconut to fall off the cake while you're driving, care must be taken.

Once upon a time there was a tortoise and a hare..... ( need I go on ? )

Looking back through all my fuel useage calculations over the last 30,000k's, the figures constantly read between 12.xx & 13.xx for a full tank of petrol. Of course there was that one time that it was 15.40 but I beat the crap out of the wife after that...and it has not happened again.

I would have to say my crowning glory was a nice 10.68 in December last year.....beautiful effort that....only 1 month old and the engine not even run in yet.

Anyway, I digress. Ken and I once did face off around the back streets of Narellen but it was too close to call. The vehicles behind us kept blasting their horns so we let them past. Some of those truckies can get really aggro.