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Posted: **Tue Jun 06, 2006 1:18 am**

Just wondering - what sort of mileage are folks getting off this motor? I have just been on a trip through France and had some interesting results. The websites I have looked at suggest that a stock Prado should be doing 15l per 100km. Figures on the surf are slightly lower due to it being lighter.

My Prado has done 205000 kms and I got a steady average of 13.3l per 100km.
I had kinda been hoping for better economy than that, but if the former info is true, I seem to be doing pretty well!

Also, on one of the trips I measured, I got a slightly better figure (12.

- the strange thing is that it was when we were trying to catch a ferry and I was pushing it the whole way!!! How can a loaded Cruiser do better fuel consumption at 130km/h than 110????????

I took my measurments over approx 350kms each time.

Posted: **Tue Jun 06, 2006 6:27 pm**

My surf uses about the same with the 1kz. Mine is auto so uses slightly more. I had the injectors overhauled about a year ago and that made a huge difference to the fuel economy.

Diesels love air and you can never give them to much so maybe at 130km/hr you were getting better performance out of the engine requiring less fuel consumption. who knows really :scratch:

Mike

Posted: **Wed Jun 07, 2006 11:43 am**

Holy cow! My 3.1TD MU gets that economy running 36" Simexes!... it gets around 11 litres per 100km's on the 35" BFGs...

I didn't realise those motors were such a hog... thought they would return slightly better than that...

Posted: **Thu Jul 27, 2006 8:05 pm**

I've also been a bit disappointed with 1KZ-TE fuel economy. Out of my 94 Prado auto I average 14 litres / 100km. Compare that with my old 3B Landcruiser which returns 12 litres / 100km. Being 5 speed and snorkelled probably helps a bit though!

Posted: **Thu Jul 27, 2006 8:12 pm**

crewzer wrote: Out of my 94 Prado auto I average 14 litres / 100km. Compare that with my old 3B Landcruiser which returns 12 litres / 100km.

My 70 series flatdeck is doing around 22 litres / 100km
the chev engine does about the same economy as the 3F motor did

All my old 40 series trucks with 2F engines used to be about the same

Posted: **Thu Nov 16, 2006 8:18 pm**

Just got a KZJ78 (1994 LWB Prado, 1KZ-TE), drove it down from Auckland to Christchurch. Got 11l/100km. Pretty pleased with this.
Cheers
Rowan

Posted: **Thu Nov 23, 2006 9:08 pm**

I was going to reply to this, but Mikes avitar made me forget what I was going to say! :lol:

Posted: **Thu Nov 23, 2006 10:45 pm**

the diesels the cheap part, its the cylinder heads that cost!

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1KZ-TE Fuel consumption???

1KZ-TE Fuel consumption???