Member Since: 14 Dec 2014
Location: Chinnor
Posts: 531
Real MPG D4 - 3+ years in
thought I would share this as my D4 HSE just went over 100K miles (although the engine was changed at 60K miles for a brand new dealer fitted genuine LR) - these are actual real numbers, not the LR fiction from the dash.
since October 2019
41560 miles
£0.227 per mile (average £1.475 per litre)
6469 litres
Average MPG 29.51
pretty happy with the MPG, thats a true mix of urban, rural and motorway, and is in daily use.
Not so happy when I multiply the 41560 x 0.227 giving a grand total of £9434.12 spent on diesel so far!
But they aren't built for economy, we all know that!
I use an app called Road Trip LE by the way to record this every time I fill up.
I have recorded every fill over 38,334 miles totalling 1593.88 gallons which gives me 24.1 MPG.
Nowhere near as good as Johnny Oxford
19th Jan 2023 11:48 am
Moo D3 Decade
Member Since: 13 Aug 2010
Location: UK
Posts: 14389
In 233,000 miles in my Old Bus I averaged 26.1mpg.
In my XC90 over 27,000 I averaged 33.1mpg.
In 6400 miles in my new Defender I've averaged 28.6 mpg.
All about what I expected.New Defender L663 110 SE (known as Noddy!)
Sold Volvo XC90 R-Design (known as Basil)
Sold - D4 HSE (Known as Gerty)
No longer the Old Buses original owner
231,000 miles and counting
05 S manual owned from March 2005
D4 Face lifted
Still original injectors and turbo
V8 Front brakes
BAS Remap, Allisport Intercooler and deCat
EGRs blanked
T-Max split charge
Hanibal Expeedition rack
Prospeed ladder
Duratrac tyres
IID BT
BAS FBH control
19th Jan 2023 12:11 pm
gareth71
Member Since: 10 Apr 2016
Location: North-east Wales
Posts: 597
D3, since May 2016 (when diesel was £1.079/L)...
29,674 miles driven - average of 25.72mpg.
19th Jan 2023 12:45 pm
Johnny Oxford
Member Since: 14 Dec 2014
Location: Chinnor
Posts: 531
£ per litre graph over that 3 years makes for sad viewing indeed!
[/img]2014 D4 HSE Facelift Corris Grey
Previous :
Discovery Sport SE (awful)
56 plate D3 HSE TDV6 Zermatt Silver
Defender 90 200tdi
19th Jan 2023 3:22 pm
Lrstaylor
Member Since: 03 Oct 2018
Location: Kent
Posts: 616
My new to me V8 was doing 24.2 mpg on the motorway and A roads the other day on the liarometre down to 14.9 mpg around town since it cost me 1.38 ppl to fill up down near Sittingbourne when I visited my mate.
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19th Jan 2023 4:37 pm
sacimiddx
Member Since: 09 Mar 2007
Location: hants
Posts: 2144
NJSS wrote:
I have recorded every fill over 38,334 miles totalling 1593.88 gallons which gives me 24.1 MPG.
Nowhere near as good as Johnny Oxford
Nigel is a very good friend of mine and I happen to know his right foot weighs in at just a tad over 11kg Illegitimi Non Carborundum
19th Jan 2023 5:27 pm
Journeyman
Member Since: 27 Sep 2020
Location: Hampshire
Posts: 289
With the motorway MPG it can't be that more expensive to run a V8 over a TDV6 with the price difference between petrol and diesel. Down here in the Solent Delta, diesel is approx 22p/litre more expensive.
I'm sure someone who is more mathematically minded than me can work where the breakeven point would be.Cheers,
Nigel is a very good friend of mine and I happen to know his right foot weighs in at just a tad over 11kg
Thanks Paul
19th Jan 2023 9:23 pm
M3DPO
Member Since: 22 Sep 2010
Location: Notts.
Posts: 8225
Don’t know how you guys do it, I’m a very steady driver, most journeys are around 15 miles into town and 40% is 30/40mph limit, the most I can achieve is 22mpg, there must be something wrong with mine It can when others can't,
It will when others won't,
It goes where others don't.
Mine would be the same, average over the last 130,000 miles and 13 years is 23mpg. Over the last year, its averaging just under 22mpg. Fuel cost is £28k while other running costs/expenditure is £29k
20th Jan 2023 11:37 am
Madrilleno
Member Since: 13 Oct 2014
Location: Nottingham
Posts: 1784
There are two rules for success,
1. Never tell everything you know.
D4 gone!
D5
20th Jan 2023 12:11 pm
pjm-84
Member Since: 04 Oct 2016
Location: Hampshire
Posts: 2589
swansty wrote:
Mine would be the same, average over the last 130,000 miles and 13 years is 23mpg. Over the last year, its averaging just under 22mpg. Fuel cost is £28k while other running costs/expenditure is £29k
Ouch.......
20th Jan 2023 12:13 pm
digestives
Member Since: 01 Mar 2021
Location: England
Posts: 18
It certainly isn't a cheap car to run but looking at it as a Swiss-army-knife 2.5 ton+ 4WD 7 seater come transit van, the MPG is pretty good considering!
I did finally find the eco-mode on these... terrain response Grass/Gravel/Snow - keeps the MPG from dipping too much in the winter months as it makes you drive like a nun!
Edit: Calculated MPG from a spreadsheet I’ve been maintaining and getting 26.7 mpg over the last year. I’ve mellowed out in my driving style so getting high 20s consistently but driving at autobahn speeds few times a year kills the average.
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giving a grand total of £9434.12 spent on diesel so far!
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