What is the fuel economy on the diesel anyway?
Fuel consumption city 17 MPG (13.9 l/100km)
Fuel consumption highway 24 MPG (9.6 l/100km)
Fuel consumption combined 21 MPG (11.2 l/100km)
Those Diesel fuel economy numbers are for a brand new and probably unloaded rig running properly inflated stock tires.
For your numbers I assume your calculating them based on a larger than stock tire? If not, the calculated mileage will be even higher.They're probably pretty close...mine is lifted on 33's with almost 150k miles and I'm still getting right in line with the EPA estimates of 13 city/17 highway (16.85mpg is pretty close to 17). Actually, the worst I've ever gotten was 13.5 with all city driving.
The numbers are usually on the money from my experience, driving style makes the biggest difference though.
For your numbers I assume your calculating them based on a larger than stock tire? If not, the calculated mileage will be even higher.
Yeah, I did a few trips with the odometer vs GPS. Discrepancy was about 5.9x percent (I had covered about ~6% more distance than the odometer indicated). When I fill up and enter the numbers into Fuelly for tracking purposes, I'll subtract ~6% from the amount of fuel it took to fill it up, so that the MPG and the mileage on my odometer both stay in line with each other.
If you're tracking fuel consumption, shouldn't you add 6% to the actual read miles instead then calculate your fuel economy? This way, its also easy to keep track of maintenance intervals as well as actual vehicle mileage.
So Ive been looking into this and found someone who can deliver an entire Montero from Japan cut in half, with 2.8 diesel engine, 5.29 gearing, manual, all the goodies that our monteros dona have, all for $4500.