|
Welcome to the Australian Ford Forums forum. You are currently viewing our boards as a guest which gives you limited access to view most discussions and inserts advertising. By joining our free community you will have access to post topics, communicate privately with other members, respond to polls, upload content and access many other special features without post based advertising banners. Registration is simple and absolutely free so please, join our community today! If you have any problems with the registration process or your account login, please contact us. Please Note: All new registrations go through a manual approval queue to keep spammers out. This is checked twice each day so there will be a delay before your registration is activated. |
|
|
Thread Tools | Display Modes |
10-10-2008, 09:59 AM | #1 | ||
Hardcore I6 Enthusiast
Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: Melbourne
Posts: 438
|
Whats your distance till empty after you have an accurate reading on a full tank?
The HIGHEST i can ever make it display whilst cruising is 470km's...quite sad really. How about you lot?
__________________
2002 AU XR6 VCT III 'ST' Liquid Silver Auto Full Momo and Leather Trim. Redback exhaust, high flow cat and Pacey Extractors. SELLING MY GENUINE 18" AZZUROS WITH TYRES. FRONT TYRES 95% REAR TYRES 50% |
||
10-10-2008, 10:03 AM | #2 | |||
Back to Le Frenchy
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Back home.....
Posts: 13,346
|
271 it keeps going back to around town, not that it ever makes 271 to a tank lol.
Best I have seen was 660 odd after a lot of highway driving.
__________________
Quote:
07 Renault Sport Megane F1 Team R26 #1397
|
|||
10-10-2008, 10:03 AM | #3 | ||
FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: S.E. Melb
Posts: 670
|
This is not a true reading of what you will get out of a full tank of juice.
It is a estimation of what you will get from the average consumption of fuel from recent driving. I fill up and sometimes it tells me 450 and other times it tells me 600. All depends on where and how I have been driving. City/suburbs - stop/start all the time or open road. |
||
10-10-2008, 10:11 AM | #4 | |||
Hardcore I6 Enthusiast
Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: Melbourne
Posts: 438
|
Quote:
__________________
2002 AU XR6 VCT III 'ST' Liquid Silver Auto Full Momo and Leather Trim. Redback exhaust, high flow cat and Pacey Extractors. SELLING MY GENUINE 18" AZZUROS WITH TYRES. FRONT TYRES 95% REAR TYRES 50% |
|||
10-10-2008, 10:33 AM | #5 | ||
AU Club Mod
Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: Albury
Posts: 409
|
I dont have any pics but after a lengthy highway drive from a full tank, i refilled and it showed 995 on the DTE
__________________
|
||
10-10-2008, 10:35 AM | #6 | ||
FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: Melbourne
Posts: 2,146
|
Crazy-Au I believe it was, had a picture from his fairmont with his DTE showing 999 or something like that I think.
|
||
10-10-2008, 10:35 AM | #7 | |||
Hardcore I6 Enthusiast
Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: Melbourne
Posts: 438
|
Quote:
__________________
2002 AU XR6 VCT III 'ST' Liquid Silver Auto Full Momo and Leather Trim. Redback exhaust, high flow cat and Pacey Extractors. SELLING MY GENUINE 18" AZZUROS WITH TYRES. FRONT TYRES 95% REAR TYRES 50% |
|||
10-10-2008, 11:03 AM | #8 | ||
FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Wagga Wagga
Posts: 2,507
|
Yeah i managed 967km round trip a few years back. I got a photo at above 900 something. The DTE was bloody massive. hit 999 and stayed the for a while from memory.
I drove to sydney, picked my late nan up, then drove some of the way back home ha! I filled up because i though my guage was broken!
__________________
Daily: AU Forte Wagon Project: AU Fairmont - Wants to be turbo The Family Car: 2009 G6E Turbo Future fun: 1968 Ford Galaxie 500 |
||
10-10-2008, 11:06 AM | #9 | ||
gone fishing
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Morayfield qld
Posts: 286
|
I've had mine at over 800 after driving to Sydney and back it all depends on the driving conditiond and the weight of your right foot.
|
||
10-10-2008, 11:10 AM | #10 | ||
Flairs - Truckers Delight
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: Brisbane Northside Likes: Opposite Lock
Posts: 5,731
|
On Gas? 590-odd
On Petrol? 800-odd.
__________________
Current: Silhouette Black 2007 SY Ford Territory TX RWD 7-seater "Black Banger"
2006-2016: Regency Red 2000 AUII Ford Falcon Forte Automatic Sedan Tickford LPG "Millennium Falcon" |
||
10-10-2008, 11:13 AM | #11 | ||
Hardcore I6 Enthusiast
Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: Melbourne
Posts: 438
|
Be interesting to see what i can get during my trip to the murry river...
__________________
2002 AU XR6 VCT III 'ST' Liquid Silver Auto Full Momo and Leather Trim. Redback exhaust, high flow cat and Pacey Extractors. SELLING MY GENUINE 18" AZZUROS WITH TYRES. FRONT TYRES 95% REAR TYRES 50% |
||
10-10-2008, 11:22 AM | #12 | ||
Pursuit #144
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Narrandera, NSW
Posts: 198
|
My old '98 Forte showed 999 DTE filling up at Shepparton, returning from Melbourne from Iron Maiden concert.
My manual '01 XR6? Usually about 690 - 720 DTE. Thats what I usually get too, according to the trip metre.
__________________
2003 FPV Pursuit #144 | Silhouette | 5 Speed Manual | Pacemaker Twin 2.5" System | Pacemaker 2.5" 200 cell cats | Pacemaker 1 3/4" headers | Yella Terra airbox | Herrod Oil Breathers | MGW Short Shifter | 19" Bonspeed Clutch billet wheels | Spoiler Deleted |
|
||
10-10-2008, 11:30 AM | #13 | |||
Cane Farmer
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Tom Price, WA
Posts: 4,056
|
Who says Falcons aren't fuel efficient!!
__________________
1994 ED XR6T - Cobalt Blue. 2009 FG XR6 - Black. Quote:
|
|||
10-10-2008, 12:00 PM | #14 | |||
Hardcore I6 Enthusiast
Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: Melbourne
Posts: 438
|
Quote:
It would be interesting to have 4-5 falcons of the same spec's, different km's and owners drive a decent distance at the same pace together. If you found significant differences between efficiency it would be a good way to determine what needs fine tuning without to much stuffing around.
__________________
2002 AU XR6 VCT III 'ST' Liquid Silver Auto Full Momo and Leather Trim. Redback exhaust, high flow cat and Pacey Extractors. SELLING MY GENUINE 18" AZZUROS WITH TYRES. FRONT TYRES 95% REAR TYRES 50% |
|||
10-10-2008, 12:45 PM | #15 | ||
Audi S3
Join Date: May 2005
Location: Sydney.
Posts: 8,307
|
after filling up the DTE has read for the
LOWEST - 373 HIGHEST - 710 been as high as 800 and something on long distance drives maybe even 900
__________________
|
||
10-10-2008, 01:00 PM | #16 | ||
With da Warlords
Join Date: May 2006
Location: Orange NSW
Posts: 1,781
|
Lowest after filling was around the 217km mark, highest i've ever seen was 783 when i filled up, after a 1000km trip. Got a photo too lol
__________________
You don't have to be faster than the bear, you just have to be faster than the slowest guy running from the bear. For Sale: Parachute. Only used once, never opened, small stain. Windsor Warlords AU III XR-8220 300+ rwhp of Manual fun XR50T Ute - 300rwkw (give or take depending on the day)
|
||
10-10-2008, 01:00 PM | #17 | ||
Just slidin'
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Brisvegas
Posts: 7,791
|
I usually get high 600's, low 700's. It takes a measrement of the k's per litre and does it fairly quickly, thats why you can lose 100k's off on quick squirt, as it calculates you have changed your driving pattern and changes the DTE accordingly.
__________________
MD Mondeo - For the family
NP Pajero - For the adventure |
||
10-10-2008, 01:09 PM | #18 | ||
With da Warlords
Join Date: May 2006
Location: Orange NSW
Posts: 1,781
|
Douubbllee ppoosstt.... :
__________________
You don't have to be faster than the bear, you just have to be faster than the slowest guy running from the bear. For Sale: Parachute. Only used once, never opened, small stain. Windsor Warlords AU III XR-8220 300+ rwhp of Manual fun XR50T Ute - 300rwkw (give or take depending on the day)
|
||
10-10-2008, 01:10 PM | #19 | ||
.
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Sunshine Coast
Posts: 1,250
|
The most my DTE that I have seen is 695...the most I have ever got out of a full tank that I know of is 705km....our XR6 does lots of highway driving and we regularly get over 650k's to a tank
__________________
--------------------------------------------- |
||
10-10-2008, 01:12 PM | #20 | ||
FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: Newcastle
Posts: 1,061
|
highest was around 800 - 900 on a trip to qld.
the usual is around 600 - 650 and i usually get 500 - 600 from the tank (one bonus of living so far from everything, highway driving) |
||
10-10-2008, 02:39 PM | #21 | |||
Flairs - Truckers Delight
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: Brisbane Northside Likes: Opposite Lock
Posts: 5,731
|
Quote:
__________________
Current: Silhouette Black 2007 SY Ford Territory TX RWD 7-seater "Black Banger"
2006-2016: Regency Red 2000 AUII Ford Falcon Forte Automatic Sedan Tickford LPG "Millennium Falcon" |
|||
10-10-2008, 04:30 PM | #22 | ||
[ 5L ]
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: North Haven, Adelaide
Posts: 2,886
|
mine is normally around 560 when i fill up.
highest i have seen is about 710.
__________________
[ 5L ] 2001 AU series 2 xr8, 220kw, 5speed, leather interior, premium sound, narooma blue, cat back exhaust, k&n filter,willall edit,MSD coil packs, MSD leads, monroe gt gas shocks, superlow kingsprings 187rwkw (mainline) www.ignitionimages.com
|
||
10-10-2008, 04:39 PM | #23 | ||
[ 5L ]
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: North Haven, Adelaide
Posts: 2,886
|
just checked in my photobucket account, and my best was actually 776km's
that was after a long highway drive.
__________________
[ 5L ] 2001 AU series 2 xr8, 220kw, 5speed, leather interior, premium sound, narooma blue, cat back exhaust, k&n filter,willall edit,MSD coil packs, MSD leads, monroe gt gas shocks, superlow kingsprings 187rwkw (mainline) www.ignitionimages.com
|
||
10-10-2008, 06:21 PM | #24 | ||||
You can't stop the signal
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Behind a computer at work
Posts: 1,624
|
Quote:
This was after the drive to geelong to get my hard lid. He returned economy of 8.5L/100km for that trip, and i know it could be less if i tried. Usually though, round town it goes back to high 500's, low 600's Cheers
__________________
Quote:
|
||||
11-10-2008, 12:44 PM | #25 | ||
Moderator
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Kenthurst
Posts: 40,403
|
Most i got out of a factory dedicated LPG ute was 780km from a tank ... heading back from Melbourne.
__________________
The Current Stable 2016 SZII TS Territory RWD Petrol The Evolution of the EGA54D utes AU Workshop Build thread of EGA54D B-Series Workshop Build thread of EGA54D 2004 SX TX Territory AWD - Gone but not forgotten 2010 FG XT "The ex-rental" - Moved onto a new home Mechan1k's Flickr Page |
||
11-10-2008, 12:50 PM | #26 | ||
Barra Turbo > V8
Join Date: Jan 2005
Posts: 26,056
|
Mine will read around 400-450, ive had it at around 700 on a trip to Port Mac but it didnt stay there long though
__________________
-2011 XR6 Turbo Ute - Lux Pack - M6 -2022 Hyundai Tucson Highlander Diesel N Line |
||
15-10-2008, 01:58 PM | #27 | ||
Teh Baest
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Hills Area, NSW
Posts: 649
|
Just filled up today and it was 413.
Usually it's a little higher, but i have been pretty heavy on it since returning from my honeymoon
__________________
1999 Liquid Silver AU Show: XR6 Kit, Low, RDA Slotted's F&B, Fully Tabouli Sound System, Altezza Tailights (Good ones!) Go: K&N Pod w/ 3" intake, XR6T Snorkel, Pacie Comp 4480's, 2.5" Cat Back, CMS Stg2 Cam, Custom Tune, Tranny Cooler Coming..CMS Stg2A Cam, 68mm TB Later.. 4.5L w/ BOOOOOOOOOOST or XR6T or AUIII XR8 220 Currently: 151kW (165 on other dynos ) |
||
15-10-2008, 03:56 PM | #28 | ||
Smile
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Merrylands Sydney
Posts: 8,541
|
720 kms dte when full.
__________________
Stingray Car Security ph 0414445444 Single din radio fascias for fg to fgx fords Australia wide . FG 1 2 and 3 gauge holder in stock now! https://stingraycar.com.au/shop/ Site Sponsor See Sponsor Stingray Car Security 😍👌✌ AU wagon 6 14.241@96.75 1/4 mile sold.Octane fg xr6 turbo!! 12.312 112.21 mph home tune f6 injectors gone ..now in nitro fgxr6t ready to go again |
||
15-10-2008, 04:51 PM | #29 | ||
FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Perth NoR
Posts: 5,971
|
Man mine gets nowhere near those figures!
Best DTE I've ever seen was 623km, and at best I've done 540km/tank. : |
||
15-10-2008, 07:52 PM | #30 | ||
FTF Club Moderator
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Driving my Tickford T3 Wagon in Sydney
Posts: 3,132
|
Generally 500km city and 900km plus from highway driving.
__________________
Albert Einstein: Es ist schwieriger, eine vorgefaßte Meinung zu zertrümmern als ein Atom. (It is more difficult to alter a preconception than split an atom) Falcon Tickford FPV (FTF) Car Club of NSW Fords in the Park 2010 I use and recommend Stingray Car Security. http://www.stingraycar.com.au/ |
||