[Aussie Keith]

Although its been a long while since the last post and the diesel is no longer an engine option in Australia, my diesel GD is killing it fuel consumption wise which is an awesome thing to report in these days of ridiculous fuel prices.

For the record better than 6.5l/100km fully loaded with a bike on the roof and a trike on the back over a couple of hundred km driven mostly at highway speeds. I've seen 4.5 without bikes on the roof at times. No hyper mileing, just reliable real world motoring.

I recall there were some who claimed way back when zillions of km needed to be driven to make the diesel a good economic decision and here we are. Car has just under 60 000km driven after all these years and runs like a top.

[VanBelleJean]

Post a question in the forum and we will take a look.

i bought a second hand I30 1.4 diesel from 2012 Euro 5 to do some tests:

1. On Diesel consumption: Hyundai - i30 - GDH Hatchback - Spritmonitor.de you can follow my attempst.
2. i got 51,14 and 50,64 liters tanking after almost empty based on range
3. Bord computer seems to be incredible correct in l/100 km, range is adapting throug drive style now
4. With a video i could check all 12 dots for consumption in distance, based on 3.6 to 3.4 m/100 km over the distances of over 1400 km between full tanking again

12 dots: 1448 km, 0 km passed,
11 dots: 249,4 km (250 to round up) at 3.6 = 9 liter used = 41 liter left
10 dots: 399,4 km (400 to round up) at 3.6 = 14.5 liter used = 35,5 liter left
9 dots: 483,3 km at 3.5 = 16,9 l used = 33,1 l left
8 dots: 595,9 km at 3.4 = 20,3 l used = 29,7 l left
7 dots: 732,9 km at 3.4 = 24,9 l used = 25,1 l left
THAT IS HALF RESERVOIR: 7 dots!!
6 dots: 810 km at 3.4 = 27,54 l used = 22,4 l left
5 dots: 900 km at 3.4 = 30,6 l used = 19,4 l left
4 dots: 1032.5 km at 3.5 = 36,12 l = 14,8 l left
3 dots: 1099,4 km at 3.5 = 38,5 l = 11,5 l left
2 dots: 1232,3 km at 3.4 = 41,9 l = 8,1 l left
1 dot: 1321,9 km at 3.5 = 46,3 l = 3,7 l left
Starts blinking then when 50 km range drops further and range becomes "---" instead and then you have 1409 km at 3.5 = 49,32 l = 0,7 l left

The error here is that i tanked 50,64 liter diesel at Lukoil sofia, but normally there is a s small loss at tanking,but Lukoil (Jet in Germany and Austria callef, is superior Russian oil by the way, drove probably 2 million of the 3 million kilometers on Lukoil in my life) is quite correct!

i will do later a test to drive completely empty while have a jerrycan with spare diesel on board.

Jean Marc +je