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by **diver albie** on Mon Nov 16, 2015 8:53 pm

Ok sorry but I did look and couldn't find my answer. Economy appears to have gone to the poo. Have checked the trip computer against scangauge and both show 20 ish litres per 100. Because I have a long range tank kinda rely on the scangauge to time when i need fuel. No way this can be right?? Any suggestions.

Cheers
Dave

by **Joel** on Tue Nov 17, 2015 4:22 am

Buy the diesel :lol:

by **NowForThe5th** on Tue Nov 17, 2015 6:21 am

Joel wrote:Buy the diesel

...and spend all your money on servicing instead.

Seriously, get some accurate fuel consumption figures by recording litres filled against kilometres travelled.

Auto or manual? Towing? A lot of off-road work? Carrying heavy load?

Change air filter, clean MAF sensor and change spark plugs as starting points.

by **RHKTriton** on Tue Nov 17, 2015 7:21 am

Disconnect the handbrake!

You might also consider the O2 sensors - these buggers can really mess with fuel economy when they've run to the end of service life.

by **leonbee** on Tue Nov 17, 2015 10:28 am

Clean your air filter dude...

by **diver albie** on Tue Nov 17, 2015 5:39 pm

Joel wrote:Buy the diesel

can't afford all thesound deadner so will scratch that but thanks for the suggestion

just had the 90k service so plugs and filter are new so there's 2 more out of the way. Waitong for tight ass Friday for fuel discount so will top off then and check real consumption against scangauge / trip computer.

Nothing has changed that I can think of, still a manual petrol, still drive it the same and haven't added any weight other than the 4-5 kgs I've put on due to lack of exercise waiting for knee reconstruction.

Got me fecked.

by **myself62** on Wed Nov 18, 2015 5:30 am

how do you clean the MAF sensor and check the O2 sensors?

by **myself62** on Wed Nov 18, 2015 5:35 am

I thought that cleaning of the MAF sensor was a diesel only thing

by **NowForThe5th** on Wed Nov 18, 2015 6:48 am

Search "MAF sensor", author Homer. He did a detailed how to, for his petrol ML.

by **diver albie** on Wed Nov 18, 2015 8:43 pm

NowForThe5th wrote:Search "MAF sensor", author Homer. He did a detailed how to, for his petrol ML.

cheers have checked that out of to Supercheap tomorrow for a spray can of magic

by **myself62** on Sun Nov 22, 2015 7:16 pm

I searched MAF sensor but couldn't find the relevant input from homer.
Can anyone supply a link?

by **diver albie** on Sun Nov 22, 2015 7:26 pm

Well it does make a difference

keep looking. I'll do my best to insert a link

by **diver albie** on Sun Nov 22, 2015 7:39 pm

viewtopic.php?f=23&t=8475

And maybe that worked...

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