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Diesel ... is it all the same ??
Range Rover Blues:
--- Quote from: waveydavey on March 29, 2008, 11:34:28 ---
My guess is that the difference in milage on a tankfull comes more from the amount in the tank.
IE One garage has a faster pump with a more sensitive cut off so a full tank has less in it and hence doesn't go so far.
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I think you've hit the nail on the head. The only way to work out MPG is to see how manu miles you get on a fill up. Going form an empty tank to an empty tank is far to vague so the best wat is to brim the tank, then see how many miles you can do on one tank, brim it back up then seehow much fuel you used. Even then usinga different pump will effect the cut-off speed, the ambient temp will effect th way the fuel froths up, all sorts of things and I cna put about 2 gallons in mine after the nozzle has clicked off for the first time.
I know that a Ford is designed to be 98% full on the second click, but I'm sure LR weren't designed that well, so how can any of us be totally accurate?
And LPG mileage is even harder to be accurate about, I try to take an average over 3 yankfulls, the amount in the dispensing pump, the ambient temp and pressure all make a difference to the delivery pressure even though my tank cuts off on a level-guage it's still variable.
marjan:
I can't tell any difference between Supermarket fuel and other in my Landy 90 but the supermarket stuff (Sainsburys) makes my Focus TDCI run very lumpy.
Ja1983:
seemingly supermarket fuels are the cheaper, lower quality stuff. although its more like super, great and fantastic... rather than good, bad and ugly. i believe water content has a lot to do with it.
personally if i have a performace engine, i stick performance fuel in. the disco is not a performance engine, so i run it on whats cheapest!
most turbo`d petrol car run noticabley differant on anything less than premim unleaded.
but lets not forget that landrovers are used all over the world, and are designed to run on multiple grades of fuel - i imagine the stuff you get in deepest darkest africa may be a tad downmarket from what comes out of the pumps here....
Bob696:
--- Quote from: Arc-Eye on March 28, 2008, 22:44:45 ---To my way of thinking the benefits of various suppliers and quality of diesel aint the issue, its the way we are getting ripped off by all on the cost of the bloody stuff in the first place either good or bad.
Most expensive I've seen this week is £1.19 a litre, any advances on that? :'(
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In the turkish part of cyprus diesel is around 75p a litre and petrol 85p despite them still being under economic embargo. Makes you wonder.
Silvery Thing:
--- Quote from: Ja1983 on March 31, 2008, 01:58:03 ---....personally if i have a performace engine, i stick performance fuel in. the disco is not a performance engine, so i run it on whats cheapest!....
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I used to own a performance car before the Land Cruiser, it was a Nissan 350Z, and it went perfectly on Tesco 99RON so there is no reason to shy away from supermarket fuels :)
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