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Hi guys...currently looking at buying a wrangler and getting all sorts of answers as to how economical these are or aren't .....just thought I'd pop the question here and see if any wrangler owners would share there details as to how economical there machine is .....thankyou

http://www.fuelly.com/car/jeep/wrangler

looks like there's around 20 people with each model year on this site entering their fuel usage details.
click the top left corner for different units/look up there to take note what units it's in. US miles per gallon sounds better that UK miles per gallon. litres per hundy is what you want though hah.
may give you an idea.
pretty cool when you see the number of kilometres tracked over each model year.

My wrangler:

1997 TJ with 88kms, Manual. Standard exhaust, 33" muds, air intake etc

a tank costs roughly $115 (premium)
and i get about 350kms to a tank

thirsty b*tch!

totally worth it though, best car ive had

Where are you? More than happy to meet up and show you mine

phraza wrote:My wrangler:

1997 TJ with 88kms, Manual. Standard exhaust, 33" muds, air intake etc

a tank costs roughly $115 (premium)
and i get about 350kms to a tank

thirsty b*tch!

totally worth it though, best car ive had

350... really, thats around town aye. I was getting 500 on open road towing a small trailer.

we get around 400 around town and 450+ open road with ours thats with 32s auto and 2002 model

I Get about 500-550 open road manual 98 on 32's not overly sure about round town.....

xj wrote:

phraza wrote:My wrangler:

1997 TJ with 88kms, Manual. Standard exhaust, 33" muds, air intake etc

a tank costs roughly $115 (premium)
and i get about 350kms to a tank

thirsty b*tch!

totally worth it though, best car ive had

350... really, thats around town aye. I was getting 500 on open road towing a small trailer.

Yea thats around town, even open road i wasnt getting much more must be doing something wrong haha

I got about 350kms, 01 manual with 33s, and not much beter on the open road

My 99 TJ Wrangler Sport , Soft top, on 33's, Throttle body spacer, headers and 2.5 inch exhaust , with straight through muffler, hi lift jack strapped to the front bumper, just did 537ks (GPS not speedo) on 90.77 litres of force 10 from Gull, mixture of town and open road driving, over a bloody big hill with lots of corners to work. Worked out to around 16.9 litres / hundred ks, but like Phraza said best vehicle I ever owned,, go jeep, drives past anything except a gas station Yeeee ha

Thanks for all replies so far....looks like the 33's kill economy, I'm not into serious 4x4ing so will prob run something close to standard...previous experience with a GQ Safari I put on 33's went from 600 to a tank down to 450

XRman wrote:Thanks for all replies so far....looks like the 33's kill economy, I'm not into serious 4x4ing so will prob run something close to standard...previous experience with a GQ Safari I put on 33's went from 600 to a tank down to 450

Yeah but you got to think when you put bigger tires on your speedo will out, so get that re calibrated, and then see how they affect your fuel economy

To true...speedo was out around 10-12% its pretty simple to do the math

fark the gas mileage... grab this one

http://www.trademe.co.nz/motors/used-ca ... 980549.htm

yeti wrote:fark the gas mileage... grab this one

http://www.trademe.co.nz/motors/used-ca ... 980549.htm

Thats Savs old one, call him at the 4x4 Centre in Nelson if you want to know anything more about it

Smurf wrote:

yeti wrote:fark the gas mileage... grab this one

http://www.trademe.co.nz/motors/used-ca ... 980549.htm

Thats Savs old one, call him at the 4x4 Centre in Nelson if you want to know anything more about it

yep be built well... goes hard from what ive been told..

yeti wrote:

Smurf wrote:

yeti wrote:fark the gas mileage... grab this one

http://www.trademe.co.nz/motors/used-ca ... 980549.htm

Thats Savs old one, call him at the 4x4 Centre in Nelson if you want to know anything more about it

yep be built well... goes hard from what ive been told..

Only one elderly owner and only driven on Sundays. yeah right, Nah it is a very capable wagon, Seen it in action several times and with Sav behind the wheel it was a weapon.

Been having a nosey around ECU's.

http://www.mapecu.com/

there is a testimonial on the left hand side saying they got an extra 100 km's once the Map ECU2 was tuned...

Might put one of these on my list of things to buy!

i have a MAPECU in the work TJ, call Rich at Auck 4x4 09 2984910 to discuss, we also did one on a customers TJ, he got a couple more ponies and much better mileage (running manual on 31s...)

badnuz wrote:i have a MAPECU in the work TJ, call Rich at Auck 4x4 09 2984910 to discuss, we also did one on a customers TJ, he got a couple more ponies and much better mileage (running manual on 31s...)

Perfect, Cheers man!

2002 4.0 3sp Auto Wrangler, standard wheels

http://www.fuelly.com/driver/adimw/wrangler

every fuel up since I brought it is in here.

17.0 L/100 K'ms average. I drive off road on the weekend and to work everyday in it. (Tawa -> Wellington CBD).

i wish...........