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Open road fuel economy

Postby eurokiwitransit » Sun Jun 17, 2018 1:17 pm

What fuel economy do you get on the open road?

My van is a 2011 2.4tdci 140hp. It’s been remapped and also has bigger 244/75/16 AT tyres on it. I’m driving from Austria to africa at the moment and my first tank disappeared in 430 miles. At times I was driving at around 70mph on long straight roads.

Is this out of the ordinary? Am I driving too fast?

She also has a turbo issue at the moment with black smoke, turbo failing and suspected overfueling.
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Re: Open road fuel economy

Postby dumper » Sun Jun 17, 2018 2:27 pm

It all depends on fuel tank size and how far out your Speedo’s out with the big tyres
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Re: Open road fuel economy

Postby Burgess » Sun Jun 17, 2018 4:29 pm

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Re: Open road fuel economy

Postby Airthies » Sun Jun 17, 2018 5:31 pm

Black smoke and low boost could be a number of causes. EGR not closing properly, boost hose leakage.
Or sticky vnt vanes in the turbo, turbo wiring or actuator fault. Reading codes may help rule out things.

On the mileage front, have the tyre size been changed in the BCM config? That will throw out your Speedo and therefore the calculations for mpg. Also pushing bigger rubber is going to use more fuel as that's quite a jump in diamiter from std ~215/75 to 244/75

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Re: Open road fuel economy

Postby knobby1 » Mon Jun 18, 2018 12:40 am

My LWB Hi Roof Mk7 140, (remapped), gets 33-34mpg....so 950+ km or~590 miles out of a tank.
Even fully loaded she does over 30 mpg.

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Re: Open road fuel economy

Postby Jim Archer » Mon Jun 18, 2018 10:25 pm

140 Jumbo, re-map, 215/75s.

On a high speed raid to Romania and back it managed just about 500miles per tank at 85-90, 2 up, with 5 x 100Kg dirtbikes and a weeks worth of clothes, riding gear each, tools and oils in the back.

Back and forth across town to work etc it does about 450ish.

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Re: Open road fuel economy

Postby bambi mk 1 » Mon Jun 18, 2018 10:42 pm

eurokiwitransit wrote:What fuel economy do you get on the open road?

My van is a 2011 2.4tdci 140hp. It’s been remapped and also has bigger 244/75/16 AT tyres on it. I’m driving from Austria to africa at the moment and my first tank disappeared in 430 miles. At times I was driving at around 70mph on long straight roads.

Is this out of the ordinary? Am I driving too fast?

She also has a turbo issue at the moment with black smoke, turbo failing and suspected overfueling.

You are never gonna match the figures of the other posters as your is and awd :wink: :wink:
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Re: Open road fuel economy

Postby madmart132 » Tue Jun 19, 2018 12:05 am

Where are you going in Africa ? Much south of Morocco you have no chance of fixing it if it goes wrong !!
Even in Morocco you might have to wait weeks or even months for parts to turn up and then somebody with the software to be able to get everything working .They simply don't have the training to work on modern diesels .
Most transit vans in sub Saharan Africa are petrols or banana engined (I sell my old vans all petrols to a guy who sends them to Nigeria )
If you know you have problems come back to UK and sell it and buy a mk5 , you will at least be able to fix it .
Your fuel economy is about right as well its a 4x4 with off road tyres what fuel economy did you expect ?
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Re: Open road fuel economy

Postby Retired John » Tue Jun 19, 2018 1:33 am

Gee these are figures I dream of our 2003 2.4 TDDI gives 12-14L per 100km or 20-23mpg and then it is nothing over 100kmh / 60mph in perfect conditions and a tail wind we have gotten down as low as 10L per 100km but thats rare :oops:
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Re: Open road fuel economy

Postby knobby1 » Tue Jun 19, 2018 2:53 am

Retired John wrote:Gee these are figures I dream of our 2003 2.4 TDDI gives 12-14L per 100km or 20-23mpg and then it is nothing over 100kmh / 60mph in perfect conditions and a tail wind we have gotten down as low as 10L per 100km but thats rare :oops:


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Re: Open road fuel economy

Postby Retired John » Tue Jun 19, 2018 5:04 am

knobby1 wrote:
Retired John wrote:Gee these are figures I dream of our 2003 2.4 TDDI gives 12-14L per 100km or 20-23mpg and then it is nothing over 100kmh / 60mph in perfect conditions and a tail wind we have gotten down as low as 10L per 100km but thats rare :oops:


Yeah...but you're carrying 17 tons and have the aerodynamics of a block of council flats...

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Re: Open road fuel economy

Postby eurokiwitransit » Thu Jun 21, 2018 5:07 pm

madmart132 wrote:Where are you going in Africa ? Much south of Morocco you have no chance of fixing it if it goes wrong !!
Even in Morocco you might have to wait weeks or even months for parts to turn up and then somebody with the software to be able to get everything working .They simply don't have the training to work on modern diesels .
Most transit vans in sub Saharan Africa are petrols or banana engined (I sell my old vans all petrols to a guy who sends them to Nigeria )
If you know you have problems come back to UK and sell it and buy a mk5 , you will at least be able to fix it .
Your fuel economy is about right as well its a 4x4 with off road tyres what fuel economy did you expect ?


Thanks for this mate appreciate the info. I'm not sure exactly where yet, likely stick to Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia depending on a few different things. Am in Southern Spain at the moment.

I've recalculated after another tank on the open road driving around 60 MPH. It worked out to around 9.6L/100km. That seems about right I guess!
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Re: Open road fuel economy

Postby eurokiwitransit » Thu Jun 21, 2018 5:08 pm

Jim Archer wrote:140 Jumbo, re-map, 215/75s.

On a high speed raid to Romania and back it managed just about 500miles per tank at 85-90, 2 up, with 5 x 100Kg dirtbikes and a weeks worth of clothes, riding gear each, tools and oils in the back.

Back and forth across town to work etc it does about 450ish.

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Seems i'm getting about the same as this on the open road - thanks!
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