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Originally Posted by Samurai Here is something I forgot to mention about Sunday. I usually fill up diesel after 250kms of travelling since the fuel gauge nowhere near accurate. It only gives me a very approximate indication.
After driving mostly around 50kmph all the way to Chikmagalur, I decided to top up the diesel tank as usual.
The petrol bunk kid fills up 14 litres of diesel and then stops.
Me: Why did you stop?
He: It is full.
Me: What do you mean? It can't be full so fast...
He: No, it is full.
I am stunned, I just pay and continue. After a while I jump out and check, he is right, it is full.
The distance covered since the last fill-up in Bangalore is almost 250Kms. And I am not going by the Jeep speedometer. I do know the physical distance.
That means I got 17.85kmpl for this drive!!!
I know it is outrageous. I usually get 11-12kmpl, when I mostly drive between 70-80kmph gunning the engine most of the time.
However, the first time I drove this Jeep, that is when I drove it from Bangalore to Manipal, I got something similar. At that time, I occasionally touched 70-80kmph, but mostly drove at 50-60kmph. At that I used the Jeep speedometer, which is at least 10% inflated.
But, I am not able explain the FE this time. All I can say is I couldn't gun the engine thanks to the wandering wheels. So, what does this mean? If one drives the XDP engined Jeep at 40-50kmph in 4th gear most of the time, one can get phenomenal mileage? I can tell you it is absolutely no fun... |
Hi Samurai,
As Santhosh stated, my explorer used to give over 16kmpl milege on diesel, but that was when the engine was sealed condition.
After the recent overhaul (already clocked over 25000kms), the engine became super smooth. One needs to drive my jeep to believe the word super smooth with the peugeot. However the negative parts worked on my FE, yes the previuos gave me 16+ and I have records of reaching even 18kmpl.
When I was driving from chennai to aavalakonda, I found my FE has been reduced to 10kmpl, but remember I have explaned reaching hosur in 4 hours 15minutes from my home in chennai including 35kms of city traffic drive. This is one more reason for low FE on the last drive (over 320kms chennai to hosur).
However during the OTR, I have received feedback from Spike about smell of unburnt fuel in the exhaust. Yes, he was right in saying that as the smoke was also heavy. Both Spike and Mr.UBS explained me that we could control the fuel supply to the engine on the pump. But excessive fuel increases the power, at time people do that to get more power as explained by Mr.UBS.
So the next day to OTR I went to Hosur and asked Santhosh's mechanic to attend my excessive unburnt fuel issue on the pump and demanded him to adjust the screw. It was a magic he did before my eyes, he unscrewed a small screw on the back of the fuel injection pump and the smoke started reducing and the while returning to chennai pickup of my jeep reduced compare to my trip to hosur.
There is one more thing I noticed after reducing the fuel supply, that is bit of overheating. I was in 80-85deg.cel. while coming to bangalore, with the same kind of speed the return trip showed 90-95deg.cel. (remember i was pressing accelarator to the platform).
Now the final information, as of now my Jeep gives me 13-14kmpl, still it is lower that my old numbers. |