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tj fuel consumsion

Posted: Thu Oct 22, 2009 8:41 pm
by 87 Turbo Hilux
my gf has a tj, shes getting 350ks to a tank of premium. ive done a service recently and it didnt really help, is this amount of ks normal or do we have a problem..

Posted: Thu Oct 22, 2009 9:02 pm
by CheSter
Is it lifted or bigger tyres ? Age ? Soft Top ?

All of these will have an effect.

I run 33 mud tyre's on 4.56 ratios and get about 400km's on freeway driving .. around town it would be a lot less.

TJ's are a 4 litre straight 6 so they do chew the gas.

C

Posted: Fri Oct 23, 2009 6:40 pm
by 87 Turbo Hilux
its a 2000 model, soft top, no snorkel.. no gas just petrol, is there any jeep thing that you can put on to get more ks. do the throttle body spacers just give more power if they even do that?

Posted: Fri Oct 23, 2009 9:14 pm
by CheSter
If she's a lead foot .. and it's around town .. then I dont think it's too unrealistic .. pending year / tyre size / lift ..

Rag tops have dodgy economy due to the shit house aerodynamics of the bricks.

Could be other... ?? Sensor's ? Get a dealer or someone to plug it in and check it's codes .. might be something relevant in it.

C

Posted: Sat Oct 24, 2009 7:35 am
by digsy
I reckon 350k's around town isn't too bad out of a TJ.
They only really take about 60L of fuel max because of the way the gauge sender is set up...

Not too many petrol 4B's do 16L/100 around town.....

Posted: Sat Oct 24, 2009 5:33 pm
by Jeeps
On stock tyres you'll do 500klm from a tank like i used to. Now i'm on 32's it does about 400klm's per tank. But economy differs depending on use. I managed to get 12L/100klm up the beach last week whereas the next day on the hwy towing the camper trailor i was doing 18L/100klm.


cheers

Posted: Mon Oct 26, 2009 3:34 pm
by 87 Turbo Hilux
shes not a lead foot,shes on 31's but before them she had 17's with 29-30in sport tyres and she still got 350ks, i think ill take it to some one who knows jeeps... is there any one is brisbane that is good with jeeps

Posted: Mon Oct 26, 2009 7:57 pm
by Jeeps
87 Turbo Hilux wrote:shes not a lead foot,shes on 31's but before them she had 17's with 29-30in sport tyres and she still got 350ks, i think ill take it to some one who knows jeeps... is there any one is brisbane that is good with jeeps
Mate there's a few, Hammonds at Capalaba, Or the Dealers either at Mansfield or Albion or Westside 4x4 at sumner park which is who i use as they're also jeep experts.

cheers

Re: tj fuel consumsion

Posted: Wed Nov 04, 2009 12:35 pm
by jeepinjoejoe
87 Turbo Hilux wrote:my gf has a tj, shes getting 350ks to a tank of premium. ive done a service recently and it didnt really help, is this amount of ks normal or do we have a problem..
id be stoked if i got that far out of a tank, i get about 300 if im lucky