2008-12-10 703 11.37 61.83 "first tank."
2009-01-06 665 11.05 60.18 ""
2009-01-30 664.2 11.45 58.01 ""
2009-02-19 730 11.15 65.47 ""
2009-03-09 752 10.46 71.89 ""
2009-04-02 780 11.77 66.27 ""
2009-04-22 765 11.05 69.23 ""
2009-05-13 822 11.14 73.79 ""
2009-06-04 820 11.49 71.37 ""
2009-07-01 824 11.66 70.67 "Other Half drove for 200km of this tank but also the weather was warmer. High speed p&g used. SGII also underreporting fuel used by 4 litres."
2009-07-22 778 11.06 70.34 "Reset sg2 at last fill. It reported 30 litres used instead of the 42 i used."
2009-08-12 814 11.19 72.74 "Weather is cooling off. First full tank on the newly reset scangauge. Full bellypan installed before this tank too. No real difference."
2009-08-21 543 7.66 70.89 "SG is still reading incorrectly. Distance is logging up reasonably accurately but i still have to add some more in the fillup section on the SG."
2009-09-01 805.2 11.22 71.76 "Ran a bottle of injector cleaner through half of this tank. Currently using 400ml of dipetane to see if it'll clean the engine.
My wife drove for about 40km on this tank also.
SG over reported fuel usage by 2 litres."
2009-09-21 796 10.85 73.36 "Power steering disabled for this tank. Dipetane was also added at a 1:200 ratio. Much less smoke under acceleration."
2009-11-07 759 10.72 70.8 "Serviced car before refilling. 5W30 synthetic in engine, 75W90 semi synthetic in gearbox. Temps have dropped to an average of 7 deg c."
2009-11-16 714 10.83 $1.08 65.93 "serviced car then did a 400 mile road trip with no hypermiling. This lowered the tank to four bars remaining. I hypermiled 300 miles more when the last bar started blinking."
2009-12-05 685 9.99 68.57 "Very cold. Serviced car and i'm suspicious about the oil used. Gearbox oil is also the standard viscosity of 75W90 which is up from 75W80 used up till now. Belly pan was removed for repair and the upcoming NCT."
2009-12-21 703 10.56 66.57 "cold taking its toll. Using full grille block and the block heater and gearbox heater occasionally. Helps with shifting after starting the journey"
2010-01-22 701 10.72 65.39 "Very cold and icy/snowy weather. Lowered tire pressure to 32 psi. Not as much p&g due to icy conditions."
2010-02-08 770 11.12 69.24 "Temps improving but still low; 5 deg c.
Used block heater a few times and gearbox heater. Got 2.7L/100k on one commute after using it.
Going to replace gearbox oil with 75W80 this week."
2010-03-06 766 10.72 71.46 "used pumped block heater for most of the tank. Also replaced gear oil with 75W80"
2010-03-29 735 10.93 67.25 "needs a service. used block heater for half the journeys"
2010-04-20 792 11.2 70.71 "Serviced 200 miles into this tank using mobil 1 super FE."
2010-05-13 725 11.15 65.02 "had to drive more normally a few times and there were times when the car was fully loaded. Added spats in front of the front wheels and lowered tire pressure to 44psi."
2010-06-05 802.4 10.93 73.41 "Good weather for most of tank"
2010-07-23 796 11.52 69.1 ""
2010-08-18 743 10.52 70.63 "No p&g used for this tank. Just to see really, as the last few were not great. So i tried to exploit this ""hang time"" mentioned at cleanmpg. Seems to work. Getting into block heater weather too."
2010-09-05 787 11.51 68.38 "No p&g used for this tank. Also cleaned out the EGR as it was partly clogged. EGR inlet to airstream was 90% blocked and the air intake itself was 25% blocked off."
2010-09-21 718 10.7 67.1 "A cleaned egr valve seems to have taken its toll. It is a little colder too but not much."
2010-10-03 722 10.98 65.76 ""
2010-10-19 738 11.06 66.73 "cold, around 5 to 10 deg c. needs service"
2010-11-04 751 11.35 66.17 "serviced at the 400 mile mark in the tank. put in 0w30 castrol edge, 75w90 toyota gear oil, new coolant, new diesel filter. the old one was fairly dirty but it's hard to tell if it was blocking up or not."
2010-12-07 627 10.03 62.51 ""
2010-12-20 580 8.84 65.61 "Very cold; down to -14 once but mostly -5 to +3.
Changed oil back to 5W30 as i felt 0W30 was too thin. Lack of power and mileage was worse, moreso than the cold would have caused."
2011-01-13 735 11.21 65.57 "Temps are improving but still around the 0 to 5 deg mark."
2011-01-31 734 11.35 64.67 "New air filter, added molykote to oil and gearbox."
2011-02-18 753 11.36 66.29 ""
2011-03-03 736 11 66.91 ""
2011-03-24 773.5 11.06 69.94 ""
2011-04-08 736 10.94 67.28 ""
2011-05-02 789 11.32 69.7 ""
2011-06-10 757 10.81 70.03 ""
2011-07-11 760 11.14 68.22 ""
2011-07-28 798 11.09 71.96 "No p&g. No FAS. DFCO wherever possible. DWL where possible although this rarely happened. Warm weather contributed mostly."
2011-08-19 783 11.33 69.11 ""
2011-09-24 777.7 11.28 68.95 ""