Fuel calculations
Submitted: Friday, Apr 17, 2009 at 07:54
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Johnny boy
Hi all ,I just got back from a short trip Penrith to Armidale and back
and as we were driving I asked a mate who was also driving with a car load of people sleeping how do we work out Ltrs per 100 kms,
well didn't I open up a can of worms and at the end I just said forget it I will ask my mates on E/O and this is what I'm doing now,
I have this info but I'm not sure how to use it and no I don't normally drive my 4B to dead empty I was just curios.
I drove 920 km to empty both tanks
I put in 132.46 ltrs of diesel
I paid the nice man behind the counter $157.50
I think that if I was to say 132.46 Div by 9.2 = 14.39 per 100 KMs
would that be correct?
I'm asking this because we are going on a larger trip and I have been told the average trip around
the block with no side trips is about 25000kms so I thought that's about $167.00 per 1000kms
25000 x 167.00= $4175.00 ??
I know I must have stuffed something up because it sounds too CHEAP!! LOL!
Regards
John.
Reply By: Member - Shane D (QLD) - Friday, Apr 17, 2009 at 19:16
Friday, Apr 17, 2009 at 19:16
You don't have to drive till its dead empty.
500 K's will give a good idication, using your numbers, it would've needed 71.95 liters to do this distance.
I went from
Brisbane to Kalgoorlie via
Simpson Desert, return thru
Melbourne and Vic. Highcountry, in my 1HZ powered 100 series and averaged 15l/100K.
That was with a roofrack and my gross weight being around 250-300 Kg over.
Worst economy I got was from
Birdsville to Mount dare, 18.35l /100ks, best was from Uluru to Kalgoorlie 12.8/100k, mainly because there is a lot of dirt road driving so I slowed down to 85-90 most of the time,
Shane
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