Re: Towing economy ? V6 Petrol 120 series
Stevo,
I feel your pain also. I have an 06 dual fuel and am in the same boat as you. 64 lt of lpg and I am getting about 250klm to a tank around town. I have just had my Toyota trained mechanic do a major service on it, inc plugs, oils, filters, clean MAP sensor etc etc. I think I worked out my consumption to be about 22 - 24lt per 100klm. And that is my wife driving it not me, and she isn't a heavy right footer at all.
I am a little lost for words as originally I was getting about 320klm to a tank of gas, but have gradually seen it diminish over the last 12 - 18 months. The weird thing was last Xmas we took the car loaded with camper, kids bikes etc and went to the away, freeway run about 1 1/2 our of Melbourne, wife an I driving, had to do a run back to Melbourne for Xmas day, and we ended up getting about 390klm out of the tank of lpg. Never ever had that happen before or after that occasion. Couldn't explain it at all.
I am now waiting to get it put onto a dyno machine to see if we can figure out what on earth is going on with this, as it is really starting to concern me and i am planning on doing a trip to Cape York next year but with this sort of economy I may need to consider upgrading the car before I go which isn't what I wanted to do.
Theo
Stevo,
I feel your pain also. I have an 06 dual fuel and am in the same boat as you. 64 lt of lpg and I am getting about 250klm to a tank around town. I have just had my Toyota trained mechanic do a major service on it, inc plugs, oils, filters, clean MAP sensor etc etc. I think I worked out my consumption to be about 22 - 24lt per 100klm. And that is my wife driving it not me, and she isn't a heavy right footer at all.
I am a little lost for words as originally I was getting about 320klm to a tank of gas, but have gradually seen it diminish over the last 12 - 18 months. The weird thing was last Xmas we took the car loaded with camper, kids bikes etc and went to the away, freeway run about 1 1/2 our of Melbourne, wife an I driving, had to do a run back to Melbourne for Xmas day, and we ended up getting about 390klm out of the tank of lpg. Never ever had that happen before or after that occasion. Couldn't explain it at all.
I am now waiting to get it put onto a dyno machine to see if we can figure out what on earth is going on with this, as it is really starting to concern me and i am planning on doing a trip to Cape York next year but with this sort of economy I may need to consider upgrading the car before I go which isn't what I wanted to do.
Theo
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