Member Since: 28 Aug 2013
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Help my wallet please! :(
Hello all, in the first week of disco ownership and can say I'm in love with it! Only fault I can find so far is the fuel consumption! I had a defender before and it averaged 29-30mpg fine which I could cope with, after plenty of research before I swapped it I decided that a disco 3 would be perfect as my round journey to work is around 50 miles 90% being motorway which from my research pointed out i should get around 32-33? But in reality I'm only getting 25-26 at best! I'm not being heavy footed and I think I'm doing everything right. Just between 65 and 70 under 2k revs cruising along but doesn't seem to come up, is there anything I should check just to be sure nothing's wrong? What's the best tire pressures to run? Econ button is on all the time too. Only getting 250 miles to 65 quid which my defender would do 320-330 easily!
Thanks for any help!
12th Nov 2013 7:49 pm
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Blank the egrs and remove the butterfly if not already done, can be done temporarily to see if it helps.
Add a bit of two stroke, clean the map sensor.
Ensure the car is changing into 6th gear, try command shift to â€force†it above 50mph.
.... Only getting 250 miles to 65 quid which my defender would do 320-330 easily!
Thanks for any help!
.....please tell us what the reckoned MPG is please I can't comprehend 250 miles to 65 quid as it doesn't figure in the cost of the fuel per litre...it isn't any way to reckon or calculate mpg
If you budget for mid 20s..you will be on the right track.......& you can't compare the D3 to any other car that is not only lighter but somewhat smaller...the D3 is a BIG vehicle
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12th Nov 2013 8:16 pm
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Jimbo, you may get a slight improvement but don't expect miracles. 26mpg is my average over 110k and mst of it driving like Miss Daisey. Whilst you may get the odd tankful in the 30s that doesn't mean that's what you'll average, especially when it gets colder. And ignore the trip mop, it lies by (in my experience) 2 - 5mpg, and not in the good way. If you want economy unfortunately you don't get that from a D3.
I'm getting 25.6 mpg - calculated accurately with a spreadsheet "brimmed to brimmed" over the last 13k miles out of a total of 50k miles.
Driven hard, added SO2, Pete Bell's BAS black box - manual gearbox GG AT2 tyres.
I'm pretty satisfied with that - driving like Miss Daisy on long motorway trips with cruise control I get somewhat over 30 mpg.
Long trip to Greece next month, mostly motorways, so I'll see what really can be done, although on the return I will be VERY heavily loaded!
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12th Nov 2013 9:21 pm
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I get approx 25 mpg being fairly careful on short trips plus a bit of around town. The best I've got on a motorway trip being VERY sensible (just lacking the pipe and trilby) 30mpg. Towing a big twin axle caravan, 20mpg
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12th Nov 2013 9:32 pm
gvw
Member Since: 16 Jan 2012
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At the diesel prices here that would equate to around 23-24 mpg so you are not too far out from what the other guys have said
12th Nov 2013 9:49 pm
richuk
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Location: Dorset
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I just can't drive mine slowly . Then again I never bother working out mpg. Luckily I don't do too many miles so it doesn't hurt too much.Rich
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12th Nov 2013 9:50 pm
blue200tdi
Member Since: 23 Sep 2012
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My average was 26 - 28 mpg, that included 60mph 'A' roads and country lanes with the odd dual carriage way so I'd say yours is about right.
As I've always said, if you want an economical car, don't buy a D3. You guys are gonna be busier than a test bench in a plunger factory!
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12th Nov 2013 10:31 pm
Bobs
Member Since: 29 Oct 2013
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27.5 I think ??
Had mine 4 months now .....
is it roughly 85 litres for a full tank as stopped when the wallet was stripped of more money than I thought ??
sort of filled it up a few weeks ago to go to Scotland £110 !
Got 510 miles from it mostly motorway driving ..... the fuel calculator makes me laugh as the last 50 disappears .... almost before your eyes ..... the last 25 goes in 10 miles ha ha.....
Will get round to reading the mapping and other logs on performance and MPG.... still sorting out all the issues but finding it fun
12th Nov 2013 10:33 pm
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Mine is 23-24 mpg driving like I stole it all the time I just can't resist since my chip -------------------------------------------------
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12th Nov 2013 10:36 pm
Discoed
Member Since: 16 Jun 2010
Location: Yorkshire
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Lots of similar economy (or lack thereof) Mine is doing 24.52 over 21,831 miles. That includes mixed driving with lots of motorway. Best is 31, worst is 15.
Still better than my old Td5 110 and a hell of a lot more comfy!
12th Nov 2013 10:49 pm
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I think we're all similar....on my 600+ mile drive to Skye, was getting around 31ish (using spreadsheet not the car comp), but now home and local driving with the odd drive to work - 25 to 28mpg (28 if i'm lucky), this is what I was expecting.
After nearly 4 weeks ownership, I was finding myself always thinking about MPG, which is not the point of the car....the car is about driving around with a fixed grin so.......I know......never look at the trip computer, never show 'range' left and never reset clock when I fill - takes my mind off any kind of MPG, only know when I'm entering the new mileage into the pc after the last fill
Oh yes, set my personal World record last fill, price per litre was £1.34 so I was excited, then managed to put £101 in .......but such is life, this is not important when you remeber last weekend and I was in low ratio, rock crawl mode, driving on the Mendips
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. Then again I never bother working out mpg. Luckily I don't do too many miles so it doesn't hurt too much.
so.......I know......never look at the trip computer, never show 'range' left and never reset clock when I fill - takes my mind off any kind of MPG, only know when I'm entering the new mileage into the pc after the last fill 
.......but such is life, this is not important when you remeber last weekend and I was in low ratio, rock crawl mode, driving on the Mendips 
