That's a very high figure & not my experience with a 120 V6 auto. I have now towed an 18ft van since buying the 120 in 2007 over many 1000's of kms & my average when towing is around 17.5/100. The highest individual tank was about 22/100 when it was very hilly with a really strong headwind. I'm very happy with my fuel consumption,
Willy
Melb to Ouyen sitting on the limit (110) towing a 16tf expanda type van. over 30/100 on petrol. Lucky Ouyen had fuel or our desert trip was going to begin with an epic fail. Even on the return trip -200lts of water (and a fair bit of beer) and sitting on 100kmh it didnt make a huge difference returning 28l per 100. I was thinking of going gas but after seeing my mates 200's at work ,might need to upgrade. either a oil burner 120 or bite the bullet and go a 200. the v6 120 is just nasty when towing.
2007 Silver GXL 4L Petrol Auto :
Sovereign Bull Bar : Tow Pack with Prodigy Controller : BF Goodrich AT tyres :
Electronic Rust Prevention : Scangauge : GME UHF CB TX3420 : Thule Racks.
My Prado mileage is about 240000KM already, fuel consumption is still pretty good, for the highway with long travel, normally it will be 11~13 L/100km (display); city + highway which is normal daily driving situation, 13~15L/100km; pure city driving, it will be hard to say, but definitely >16L
By the way, I noticed that, the displayed fuel consumption is sometimes 0.5~1L higher than actual calculation, don't know why.
ENGINE...........V6, petrol
TRANSMISSION............... (if auto 4 or 5 speed?) Auto, 5 speed
TYRE SIZE...................... 265/65/R17, Scorpio
With all my driveline tweaks and stuff; including new injectors and a K&N filter, my truck is going like a bloody train and still returning low 16's around town (I am not know to be nice to the accelerator either)....
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After recent round trip to Brisbane from Coffs Harbour ,did 997klms used 122litres of premium fuel, that equates to approx 12.2ltrs per 100klm.
Gotta be happy with those figures.
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just did 7680 ks cape return . computer average says 14/100 and backed up by actual figures . moderately loaded ,at least 3000ks of dirt or tracks and not hanging around on highways ie. i overtake everything and i don't sit 10 ks under the posted limit like 95% of the motoring public . from some of the figures ive heard from diesel owners im glad i bought a petrol . i own three diesels and i don't want another .
03 grande v6 , with added stuff that makes it go places . RTFM people !
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Traveling too and from work (only 60kms round trip), smashed it a fair few times leaving work, to get up to speed in the traffic.. averaged 15.6LPH over 1100kms... pretty flash for my rig !
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I just drove to Melbourne on Friday 16th and travelled 967km from Sydney to Melbourne. My prado used 90L. As I pulled into my partner's dad's driveway, the 90L indicator lit up.
Drove home from Melbourne back to Sydney on Sunday during the day and only used 90L again.
There were 4 people in the car, a boot full of luggage, AC on all the way, tyres are standard Grandtrek AT-20 pumped to 45psi. It's a bloody awesome car
Recently came back from a 2 month trip - overall km's 10,500. Towing a 1.8t poptop as well as some tent camping with the Prado pretty well loaded & a luggage boot on the roof. Towing was about 50/60% of the trip. Overall consumption was 15.7 L per 100km. Very happy. Without the van on was around 13 & towing 16/17. Willy
2007 Silver GXL 4L Petrol Auto :
Sovereign Bull Bar : Tow Pack with Prodigy Controller : BF Goodrich AT tyres :
Electronic Rust Prevention : Scangauge : GME UHF CB TX3420 : Thule Racks.
This is great to see these sorts of figures, im just going to be upgrading from a 2.5L Forester which does about 10-13l/100 so the upsize to the prado shouldnt see too much of a hit in fuel for us.
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Recently came back from a 2 month trip - overall km's 10,500. Towing a 1.8t poptop as well as some tent camping with the Prado pretty well loaded & a luggage boot on the roof. Towing was about 50/60% of the trip. Overall consumption was 15.7 L per 100km. Very happy. Without the van on was around 13 & towing 16/17. Willy
I wish.... I've just returned from a trip to Winton with a similar size van on the rear and experienced terrible figures. (ranging from 20 L per 100 through to 30 L per 100. (Shit fuel picked up at Charleville but once I got this out of the system, I was still unimpressed. I will most likely book it in for assessment Dyno to see where the issue lies.
biggest difference in consumption and power was when i went from worn out grandtreks to new d694's . even with the exact same sizes , fuel consumption went up and accelaration went down noticeably
03 grande v6 , with added stuff that makes it go places . RTFM people !
founding member of the " you don't need all that crap on a prado association "
"you only use 15% of your brain " Einstein . " so why not burn off the other 85% " Cheech & Chong .
petrol , petrol ,petrol , you know it makes sense ! im kavpetrolbitch
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