GOLDIE My new toy Lifetime Members 5,344 Member For: 21y 6m Gender: Male Location: stanthorpe wine capital of qld. Posted 09/01/06 07:05 AM Share Posted 09/01/06 07:05 AM Around town wife driving average 470 k's per tank me driving 380 to 400 k's to the tank.Highway that is from gold coast to sunshine coast about 170 k's each way 540'ks.Highway to sydney 640 k's to the tank.2fordown there is something wrong with your car.Ian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam Here since the start... Lifetime Members 10,282 Member For: 21y 5m 27d Gender: Male Location: Victoria Posted 09/01/06 07:14 AM Share Posted 09/01/06 07:14 AM Yep!Your fuel consumption is far2much! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BAturb Member 521 Member For: 19y 11m 9d Gender: Male Location: Adelaide Posted 09/01/06 07:18 AM Share Posted 09/01/06 07:18 AM around town moderate driving 14.5 15.5l/100km Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shockF6 Member 478 Member For: 19y 18d Location: Melbourne Posted 09/01/06 07:20 AM Share Posted 09/01/06 07:20 AM 2fordown there is something wrong with your car.the way I see it is that the only thing wrong with his car is the brick that is wedged on his accelerator or is that just his right foot??just out of curiosity 2fordown, how many k's do you get out of your rear tyres?? and are they 18's??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xxr64t XXR.64T Donating Members 560 Member For: 19y 4m 21d Gender: Male Location: sydney's east!!! Posted 09/01/06 07:23 AM Share Posted 09/01/06 07:23 AM I avg 14L/100km I get about 460-520 km out of a tank in sydney. dats hwy and city driving bout 1/2 of each. just cooler mod. and its either on optimax and optimax extreme. found better fuel economy wit shell than caltex. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam Here since the start... Lifetime Members 10,282 Member For: 21y 5m 27d Gender: Male Location: Victoria Posted 09/01/06 07:30 AM Share Posted 09/01/06 07:30 AM 2fordown there is something wrong with your car.<{POST_SNAPBACK}>the way I see it is that the only thing wrong with his car is the brick that is wedged on his accelerator or is that just his right foot??just out of curiosity 2fordown, how many k's do you get out of your rear tyres?? and are they 18's?? You would have to flog the guts out of it ALL the time to have average fuel figures like that. Even then I think you would struggle to get that high.I drive my ute fairly hard and as I said I average between 11.5-13L per 100km. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xrturb god bless my kids Member 611 Member For: 20y 5m 28d Gender: Male Location: claremont meadows, sydney Posted 09/01/06 09:12 AM Share Posted 09/01/06 09:12 AM on a recent trip to gold coast from sydney I was getting 500km to a tank but my car is running way to rich on a bodgy intune tune Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Guests Posted 09/01/06 10:39 AM Share Posted 09/01/06 10:39 AM When ever I get 400k out of a tank full I hold a free p!ssupvik...aint had to many free p!ssups latley,pre edit or post edit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IH8TOADS Silver Donating Members 3,618 Member For: 19y 3m 15d Gender: Male Location: OZ Posted 09/01/06 10:47 AM Share Posted 09/01/06 10:47 AM Your signature says re-tune.........I suggest you take your own advice!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2fardown Member 526 Member For: 19y 5m 11d Gender: Male Location: Brisbane Posted 09/01/06 10:09 PM Share Posted 09/01/06 10:09 PM Forgot to mention that I've had a re-tune but that doesn't matter because it's the same on the factory tune.Ever since Ford flashed it to the latest firmware it's been absolute crap.Is there anything I can check as to the cause of the high fuel consumption? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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