Patrol fuel usage and other stuff
Submitted: Monday, Jan 16, 2006 at 09:39
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OldMike
Many thanks to the kind people here for their advice re tyres for the Patrol; finnished up with 6 x 265/75/16 LT AT and have been more than happy: run 29 psi all round here on country roads and no distress yet.
To those who gave advice re roads around
Cameron Corner and
Innamincka, you were spot on and it was a wonderful trip, thank you. Lesson one, slow down and dodge the damaging objects.
Fuel usage in the 3.0 ltr manual has been interesting.
No roof rack, no exceed 100km = 10.1999999l per 100k
With roof rack, no load no exceed 100km = 11.9 per 100k
With roof rack, some load, and Kanga Big Red DL = 15.04 per 100k
Met some people in
Broken Hill driving 2 Hilux utes, covered in mud. "Where have you been"? "We had lots of fun driving on the roads that had been closed due to the rain"!............
Short time later we heard abgout the driver who had started (and completed ) driving on a rain closed road. Cost him $1300.00 per wheel and he had a trailer = 6 wheels; no sympathy, sorry.
Motor has done 170,000 so far without trouble, but am a little nervous about it, although have made the local dealers aware that I know about the problems
Anyway, thanks again.
Mike