hse 4.6 fuel consumption

im off to work now so another 8 miles,
hope the gauge stays put

i find it Very hard to believe anyone gets anywhere near 18-20 mpg around town

i do nat if i push it 4 or 5 of them lol

rofl

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whilst travelling around town the average mpg crept up to whopping 9 but as soon as
i hit the lights it just counted down to about 8 . it seemed as though whilst moving it
would very slowly creep up and as soon as i stop it would drop quickly. i reckon that
if i just sit there idling it would just contineuosly drop.

anyway after work i went for the 30 mile run travelling at between 50-60 and by the
time i got back i am averageing 14.1 mpg which is obviously better, but the way it
is behaving is that i burning tons of more fuel idling and i nearly forgot to say that
it is smelling very rich still.

any thoughts or comments

the 2 things to make it run rich are mas and lamber senser it seems that your mas is ok from what you said mine runs rich just going to change my sensers around £70 each

it recently passed an mot and i have the emissions report if that
throughs any light on the situation

now that would rule out both sensers i think with that in mind i would run it for a few weeks as it not run much over the last few weeks give it a chance to clear the petrol in the system that could be the rich smell. but after saying that when you unpluged mas it still ran and that tells me it rich j

can the mix not be adjusted?

not sure you can with out test book. do you know the guy in mot station? do you think he would put it on emis for you? it may point you towards some thing we all missing you got no rattles have you when you rev? i just thinking cats . i would not start trying mix ajust as at this stage it could bugger up the hard work you have put in to getting it running j

mot was done miles away from previous owner, no rattles although some hydrolic
lifter noise which is quite prominent, it has done 134k

ok befor i spent any more money on parts find good indy with test book or maybe somebody on here is local to you and get it pluged in it would be cheeper and you would know for sure what you dealing with. i just had mine done to sort out some of the problems i had if you go this way please lets know how you get on j

i think this could be the way forward. as a guide how much should i be looking to
pay. will they give me a read out of the fault codes and will you guys now what
they mean

if you get fault codes just go to equus products inc and you can get readout of you fault codes in plain english i pay around £50 for read out you need to find one that will not rip you off start a new thread asking for anybody local to you with test book or rovercom some real nice guys on here and helpfull

where is equus products inc, is it online?

yes just type it in go to support a box comes up and you put code in just remember to put the full code ie p1667 and it give you result dose make it easy for us give it a go tr some difrent codes ie p1672 p1175 p1172 it will give you a clue what you looking for hope this is of help to you j

thanks,
i will get it booked in

what about getting yourself a code reader? you can pick them up for aroun £30 thats how i do it then if i come across anything that needs testbook i put it in saves me loads did you go on equus and have a look? the codes i gave you i had on mine j

havent had a look as yet, now getting ready for work.
i have got the car booked in for tomorrow morning.
will have a look at that site tonight and wiil give an
update tomorrow morning as regards to the fault
codes. hopefully it will show something about the air
con which worked again on my way home from work.

it seems it works from a cold start up???????????

hunterandthehunted said:

havent had a look as yet, now getting ready for work.
i have got the car booked in for tomorrow morning.
will have a look at that site tonight and wiil give an
update tomorrow morning as regards to the fault
codes. hopefully it will show something about the air
con which worked again on my way home from work.

it seems it works from a cold start up???????????

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If the aircon works from a cold start, that may suggest either the thermal cut out on the compressor, or excess gas pressure operating pressure switch 1 "cutting the feed to the compressor clutch to prevent damage to the system" as it states on K4 P2 in RAVE