Fuel usage, 09 ST Manual 3.0 CRD Wagon.

Hi,

im new to the forum and to Patrols but ive spent a few hours looking through all the post on here and have found a couple related to 3.0 CRD Fuel usage but they have all been on autos.

Ive just bought a 09 ST Manal wagon with 63,000km, Bull Bar, snorkell but thats about it and im pretty disapointed with the economy.

What sort of realistic economy should i be expecting? I did a trip away fishing last week and towing a 4.35 tinny at 100km/h i got 16.5 lph that i thought was quite bad.

Also should i be expecting to see much in the way of black smoke from the exhaust? Never had much to do with the CRD. I wouldnt say its alot but it is noticable at times.

Cheers

Tim

To help you we need to establish a baseline

What size tyres are you running?

What do you get when you aren't towing?

Mic

Standard tyres, 275/65/17 and around town it seems to be about 13 lph, its hard to say what a town driving is though as my day to day driving involves all speeds up to 110km/h

They are not unreasonable figures mate. The CRDs seem to vary a bit on fuel economy but yours seem OK to me.

There are too many variants to be able to say what normal usage is.
Tyres
Accessories
Mods
Roof rack
Driving style
Terrain
Etc etc





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Welcome aboard Tim.

16.5 sounds within the ball park when towing. There seems to be a fairly big variance with the CRDs - some manage to get amazingly good consumption, others tell horror stories.

We have a 2011 manual CRD and on our recent Central Oz trip towing a loaded camper and the Patrol full of 3 kids, food, recovery gear, spares etc we averaged 15.5-16.5l/100km doing 95km/hr. Obviously the harder your push the speed the higher the consumption. When doing 130km/hr (briefly) on the way to Alice it was closer to 20l/100km.

You should definitely fit a scanguage if you haven't done so already.



[edit]... damn, Nisshead got in just ahead of me! :)

Best tip for increased fuel economy was given to me from this forum which is to keep gear changes below 2500rpm and don't use cruise control on hilly roads like mid section of Hume Hwy. try and cruise up a hill rather than force the truck up it , if you lose some speed so be it.
If you have a head wind its very hard to saves fuel with the buses we drive.

I did a fuel consumption test before and after I fitted my Taipan 3" exhaust and DP chip.
Tested over 7 tanks of fuel each
Fuel consumption b4 Chip & Exhaust: 14.78l/100
C&E set on 7: 14.33l/100
C&E set on 3: 13.62l/100
It does depend on a heap of factors especially the way you drive and I'm no driving miss daisy kind of driver and the load on the vehicle like both tanks being full, car fridge full of Jack Daniels cans.
I did a trip to Echuca from Melbourne and started with less than a quarter tank,sub tank nearly empty and next to no load just me and the missus.
I was in no rush to get there so I was just plugging along all the way there, and got nearly half way home before I put the remaining fuel from the sub tank in. i went 363km on less than a quarter tank. Go figure. I must of been of fumes for ages.

Cr are a touch thirstier than the Di, be it your driving around in high humidity most of the year at 30 degree temps.
I get 15/100 towing my camper with 2 mates on board

tyer pressure is another factor
i have same tyers and run 42 psi and that gives me 15 ltr per 100
also keep speed to 95 that will help

I must have got a good one. Mine is a 2012 GU8, manual, 265.70.17s on, bull bar and so forth. I manage low 11/100km around town ever day and i drive it like i stole it. Towing, well not sure as it has not towed as yet

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Originally Posted by WogsRus

I must have got a good one. Mine is a 2012 GU8, manual, 265.70.17s on, bull bar and so forth. I manage low 11/100km around town ever day and i drive it like i stole it.

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That's probably because the rest of us are riding on 275's as standard not 265's


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