Miles per gallon

Now, I knew swapping my Ford Mondeo for a Land Rover was never going to help fuel economy, so I'm not here to moan! I'm quite happy paying all that money on diesel for the amount of pleasure driving a land rover gives me!

However, should my 1997 300TDi 147,000 mile auto Discovery which has been raised 2", has slightly larger off-road tyres, sump guard, diff guards, spotlight bar, spotlights, and snorkel get between 21 and 23 miles per gallon?

I think it should, but thought I'd ask just for comparison! The 21 mpg tends to happen when part of the tank is spent towing, and the 23 mpg tends to happen when i accelerate slowly, drive carefully etc. it seems reasonable to me.

What do you other people get?

My mileage, by the way, can be kept track of here: 1997 Land Rover Discovery Mileage

Why wud anyone want to keep track of your mileage?

Who cares, when it`s empty i fill it. If you have to sit and work it all out and start driving economically you have bought the wrong car

Mine does around 24 mpg I think, but I run on homemade bio,and to be honest It is not easy to know exactly how much you put in at home-for example if you brim an old 25 lts poly drum,how much is in it?25,26 or 30 lts.
Last time I checked,I was getting about 400 miles from full mark to 1/4 tank,but haven't checked this lately.

Very valid points! I know nobody cares about my mileage and I figured most people don't care about their own mileage, but ya never know!

Most enjoyable, cant wait for your next update on your chart.

PS - a lot of time when I'm logged on at work my colleagues find it really funny to pretend to be me and type lots of rubbish, when I'm away from my desk.

Love you

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fishsponge said:

Now, I knew swapping my Ford Mondeo for a Land Rover was never going to help fuel economy, so I'm not here to moan! I'm quite happy paying all that money on diesel for the amount of pleasure driving a land rover gives me!

However, should my 1997 300TDi 147,000 mile auto Discovery which has been raised 2", has slightly larger off-road tyres, sump guard, diff guards, spotlight bar, spotlights, and snorkel get between 21 and 23 miles per gallon?

I think it should, but thought I'd ask just for comparison! The 21 mpg tends to happen when part of the tank is spent towing, and the 23 mpg tends to happen when i accelerate slowly, drive carefully etc. it seems reasonable to me.

What do you other people get?

My mileage, by the way, can be kept track of here: 1997 Land Rover Discovery Mileage

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Well I reckon that is heavy mpg. I know yours is a modded vehicle but I had a std (bar De-Cat & De-EGR) '98 TDi 300 auto EDC and over the 16,000mls I ran her (about 18 months) she averaged 33mpg. That includes a fair bit of towing, going to the Sahara, daily running about etc etc.


Dave

i know its not the best way of checking it but mine will do at least 60 miles on £10 which is roughly about 2 gallon and mines a 300tdi auto with catt and egr valve still fitted.

graham
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98 d1 300tdi g.s. auto.

SASBOB said:

......If you have to sit and work it all out and start driving economically.........

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What if you have to sit and work it all out (because you don't have money to burn), start driving economically, need a car which will drive across muddy fields and tracks, transport a lot of tools or bales of straw, tow heavy loads, be assured to work all through the winter, etc etc. Have I still bought the wrong car? What's better at all those things?

fishsponge said:

Now, I knew swapping my Ford Mondeo for a Land Rover was never going to help fuel economy, so I'm not here to moan! I'm quite happy paying all that money on diesel for the amount of pleasure driving a land rover gives me!

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Blimey, another Mondy driver I asked about ditching my mondy a few weeks back in favour for the Disco, still undecided but lovin' the disco

Mine's a manual but is doing 30mpg which i'm pretty happy with considering the weight etc.

Dave

fishsponge said:

Now, I knew swapping my Ford Mondeo for a Land Rover was never going to help fuel economy, so I'm not here to moan! I'm quite happy paying all that money on diesel for the amount of pleasure driving a land rover gives me!

However, should my 1997 300TDi 147,000 mile auto Discovery which has been raised 2", has slightly larger off-road tyres, sump guard, diff guards, spotlight bar, spotlights, and snorkel get between 21 and 23 miles per gallon?

I think it should, but thought I'd ask just for comparison! The 21 mpg tends to happen when part of the tank is spent towing, and the 23 mpg tends to happen when i accelerate slowly, drive carefully etc. it seems reasonable to me.

What do you other people get?

My mileage, by the way, can be kept track of here: 1997 Land Rover Discovery Mileage

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Mine does about the same 21 / 23 mpg although i did manage about 26mpg at a steady 70mph over a 100 miles of motorway recently.

smarty1972 said:

Mine does about the same 21 / 23 mpg although i did manage about 26mpg at a steady 70mph over a 100 miles of motorway recently.

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Bloomin eck what are you lot up to? I'm getting avg. 25mpg around town and 31+mpg on a long run.

Dewin said:

Bloomin eck what are you lot up to? I'm getting avg. 25mpg around town and 31+mpg on a long run.

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Wanna swap?

paul_c said:

What if you have to sit and work it all out (because you don't have money to burn), start driving economically, need a car which will drive across muddy fields and tracks, transport a lot of tools or bales of straw, tow heavy loads, be assured to work all through the winter, etc etc. Have I still bought the wrong car? What's better at all those things?

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If it`s a work horse then fair point, my comment was aimed more at drivers who buy the car as a main vehicle not one for work where it`s needed to do what it was designed for!

I brought my 300Tdi 94 plate manual over from the UK about 4 weeks ago, so had the pleasure of driving it 1325 miles over 29 hours with a little kip in the middle and kept her tanked up to the brim on each fill and even with a swift run through Germany giving all she had i got 30.8 mpg over the run.

Germany was closer to 27 mpg alone but overall i was happy with the result.

now im here in Poland only doing 15-20 mile runs with a lot of stop starts and a mixture of fuels from Shell(pricey but a known quantity @ 97p/L) to Wasbruk(cheap as chips 87p/L) and some Bliska Bioester (about 72p/L) i reckon im getting closer to 23-25mpg but a car that weighs 2 tonnes and will go anywhere, i think thats not a bad deal.

Oh mines just about standard only the egr removed and blanked, but it may have been tweaked on the fuel pump as my idle seems quite high

wow... so many of us get 20-24 mpg and many of us get around 30 mpg.

One hell of a difference!

I have the decat pipe, but no idea about the "egr" thing. I imagine mine's quite heavy too, with all the mods, the tires are larger and it's been lifted 2" which can't help the aerodynamics.

I'm not bothered about the 21-23 mpg at all, but it's interesting to see how it varies! We all supposedly have the same engine from the same time period (roughly), but some get 20 mpg and some get 30 mpg!

Most of my miles are motorway miles too, at around the 70 mph mark. I spend a lot of time idling too though. This morning I drove 21 miles in 1 hour, but did 15 of those miles at 70 mph.

I'm in danger of overanalysing this all soon (if i've not done that already)!

So... what do you guys doing 30 mpg have that us lot doing 20 mpg don't?!?

Mines a 97 300tdi, standard apart from a snorkel, only used it for getting about localy at mo as I ve only had it about 4 weeks, but i have checked it out over the last couple of weeks, and it returning about 30 mpg.

I am not that worried anyways , just done it for interest, I had a Freelander before and only got about 35 out of that.

now i know i'll just be pulling up to the pump and filling it,

right... so we both have a 1997 300TDi. Yours is standard apart from a snorkel. Mine also has a snorkel, but does almost 10 miles per gallon less than yours! My mods can't account for all that, surely...

How many miles has yours done? I'm up to 147,000...

I got shot of a 2.0ltr auto 05 plate Mondeo recently and that was averaging 31mpg with the aircon running according to the computer.


My 97 300tdi Disco which replaced it is averaging roughly 25mpg but as I only pay 70p a litre for Bio I am saving a bit of cash in my pocket and having fun driving once again.


I have removed the EGR and the cat is next to go

With bigger wheels on you,ll be recording less miles.

If you want to be accurate, then get a sat nav/road angel and check its speed against your speedo and apply any percentage difference to the reading.

Its widely accepted that AT/mud tyres can also rob a couple of mpg.


Del.