VZ Fuel Economy

[danja]

I drive through Sydney peak hour twice a day, right to the city, and I average about 14L/100km, in a V8.

Something is wrong with yours

 

[torana355]

Whoa, i get 12 around town taking it easy, it climbs to 14-15 if i get on the throttle all the time or in peak hour stop/start traffic. I get 6-8 on the highway.

 

[VY.abercrombie]

yea man hav it checked out, 18L per 100km sounds more like v8 figures to me.

 

[VZMAX]

I get around 16lts around town with a very heavy foot. I have always used 98 octane fuel since I bought the car around 17k ago. Its done around 23k and I get the oil and filter changed every six months and use full syntehtic oil. I also have a cat back exhaust which helped me improve economy, it was worst before the exhaust. I have noticed one thing which was bought up in some previous thread that after a few weeks of feeding premium fuel fill the tank with the 91 octane, has helped me with the mileage, try doing this.

 

[VZ06]

Yea i got a CAI and aound town i can get mine dwn to 9.90/100
PON the highway i can get it dwn to 7.80/100

 

[Andrewzor]

Mine usually sits around the 12-14 Mark doing short trips which is all stop and start traffic. And i don't exactly have a light foot

If i baby it around can get it down to around 11

 

[Breno]

i used to get 9.3-.5L to the 100km mon-fri in and out the city (peak hour), in my full exhaust and tuned vz alloytec ute, and the highest i saw it was 10.7L to the 100km on the weekends due to short fast trips!

dont think a tune would get it any where near 'normal' running conditions.

i would start at maybe looking at the oxy sensors or even the MAF sensor and try cleaning them up.

possible they might be dirty and clogged and giving a wrong reading causing it to use to much fuel.

 

[Kal123]

Wow dude.. there is something seriously wrong.

I usually get 14L/100... and that's driving pretty hard. And the misses usually get's 10's..

How many K's are you getting to a full tank?

 

[mainpath]

I thought i would post this, :yeah:
(obviously not accurate)

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edit: Yes that is a 9 :-D

 

[torana355]

I thought i would post this, :yeah:
(obviously not accurate)

Click here

edit: Yes that is a 9 :-D

Well if you were only moving an average of 1.8km/h like the readout says then you could use alot of fuel.