I Want To Die.......

[Haysey]

tonight, filled up the car..... the image speaks for itself...

this hurts when you only get 250km out of a tank too!!!!

what is this world coming to... when are our fuel prices going to go back down? i remember when L was better than $ and that was in premium only a few years ago!!!!!!!

Pitty the government wont remove some tax from fuel......

stuff this im removing the numberplates next time!!!!!!

Ed

[silver gts-t]

no choice really, the way i think of it is $0.05 difference in price is only $2.50

[Haysey]

it all adds up though :<

[Neil]

250 kays out of a tank full,,,what the hell are you doin.

Neil.

[br3tt]

All I can say is ouch.

[Morgs]

Yeah, not even I get 250km out of a tank!?

[Abo Bob]

Or me and I'm the biggest leadfoot out there.

Still we're all going to die soon anyway so why worry.

[scathing]

tonight, filled up the car..... the image speaks for itself...

this hurts when you only get 250km out of a tank too!!!!

250km out of a tank? Consistently? How many k's are you doing a week?

Gas-guzzling people like you are the reason why we're using so much oil, which is why the demand is outstripping supply, which is why prices are so high.

[cowie165]

250km out of a tank? Consistently? How many k's are you doing a week?

Gas-guzzling people like you are the reason why we're using so much oil, which is why the demand is outstripping supply, which is why prices are so high.

The late news tonight reported that fuel consumption has decreased by nearly 10% over the last three months.

I paid $1.49 tonight. I'm seriously thinking about buying another motorcycle. 3L/100km vs 16L/100km

[Haysey]

250 kays out of a tank full,,,what the hell are you doin.

Neil.

same distance in city and highway.... i really think something isnt right with my car.....

only time i got awesome economy was when i was sitting on 60-70 to palmy the other night.......

any hints on increasing my economy...???

scathing.... normally up to 300-400 a week.. so its definately hurting my pocket.......

i could prob push 300km out of a tank but the bosch 044 dosent sit on the bottom and sucks up air....

first 3 days i had the car i was getting 150km out of a tank, one tank a day OUCH

Ed

[Tommyk]

something sounds definitely wrong

whether my cars were stock, or worked (32,33 gts-t and 33 gtr) i never returned any more than 15L/100.

Try to keep off boost and see if that fixes your problem ? If it does, then you're a leadfoot. If not, you have other issues which could be related to car running rich or o2 feedback not enabled, etc ?

[d00dz]

Glad im catching a bus to work now

[Abo Bob]

I catch a rex to work for freeeeeeeeeee.

[Alien]

best thing to do i suppose is to tune the car for economy and lower the boost to stock 7Psi or less

[Liz]

if you don't like it WALK!

[DJ984]

Glad im catching a bus to work now

ditto!

[scathing]

Is the car tuned for its mods?

Best get it on a dyno to see what the ECU is doing. I'm not as familiar with Skylines, but my mate's S15 was drinking like a fish after he did the exhaust / FMIC / boost control mods. Once he had a PowerFC installed and tuned, it ran a lot better.

But yeah, lay off the boot and wind down the boost. Its not like you need maximum power around town. If your ECU is tunable, get a more fuel conservative tune.

Also, weight reduction. If there's a whole bunch of crap you don't need in the car take it out.

Umm...jack your tyre pressures up? You'll get a slightly less grip, but you also lower your rolling resistance. Check your alignment as well. Running too much toe can cost you as much as 10% of your maximum power (as one of my tuners noticed on another customer's car), which means your engine has to generate more power to accelerate and hold speed than otherwise.

All this depends on how often you track the car, where you need maximum power and an aggressive suspension / alignment setup. If its primarily a street car that you have to daily drive, I'd set it up for that instead of the once-in-a-blue-moon track session.

[wilch]

meh... I still remember when I use to see fuel at 69c and thinking, nah, I'll just drive really sedately for another week...

I'd wait till it got back down to 60c..

It's expensive now, but eh, there's nothing we can do.

[Abo Bob]

You're so old Wil.

[Beer Baron]

i really dont care that much any more. i'm mostly just sick of people bitching about how expensive it is. in case you hadnt noticed fuel is a finite resource. the people holding the stock are going to want to maximise their profit while they can. the government will be happy with that as they tax at a % not a fixed amount. if you dont like it so much sell your car. otherwise just suck it up. in probably 50% of developed countries fuel is more expensive than here. deal with it. i run 3 cars. 2 turbo'd (1 twin turbo) and the 3rd is a V8. if anyone knows the impact of increased prices it's me.