Is 100 miles from £10 of petrol reasonable?

rosscobley

oh my god 20 miles to £10 i would cry. Mate of mine had a one of them and he used to get about 80 miles to £10. Check for diesel leaks. Do you have loads of black smoke when you drive it

Tight_Wad_5

rosscobley wrote:

oh my god 20 miles to £10 i would cry. Mate of mine had a one of them and he used to get about 80 miles to £10. Check for diesel leaks. Do you have loads of black smoke when you drive it

not loads of smoke but there is some present... it recently passed MOT and one of the faults that was fixed was a slight fuel leak, with that rectified I expected more miles for my money... but its only improved a couple of miles.

what about heater plugs as fuel filter as they where not replaced at the last service?

Tight_Wad_5

tomstickland wrote:

Oil loss would not affect mph.
2.8 Shogun is never going to manage good mpg, but I'd expect it to do 25mpg on Diesel.
Must be something seriouslly wrong for it to be that bad.

Didn't you say you were making over £150 per day from RISK FREE methods though?

Hey I don't care how much I earn I still am a Money Saver as much as the next person.

iwanttosave_2

Tight_Wad wrote:

I have a 1995 2.8 TD LWB Shogun and to £10 of Diesel I am getting under 20 (TWENTY) miles.

I have recently serviced the vehicle... and have not noticed a change.

I know of a fault it has an slight oil leak from the sump seal. Would a slight leak affect the ammount of miles I get out ot my vehicle?

other than the oil leak where do I look next TURBO, FUEL PUMP, MIXTURES?

Are you driving in your turbo a lot? Go up a gear and srive at optimum revs as much as you can.

Tight_Wad_5

iwanttosave wrote:

Are you driving in your turbo a lot? Go up a gear and srive at optimum revs as much as you can.

No, I am using the appropriate gear

iwanttosave_2

You say that you didnt change your fuel filter at last service? You should always change this. Heater plug wont do anything.

It really could be anything, you could have a hole in the fuel line, your turbo could be shot, anything.

You could always try a fuel suppliment to clean your injectors out at a long shot? You can get it cheap at asda or motormart.

Tight_Wad_5

iwanttosave wrote:

You say that you didnt change your fuel filter at last service? You should always change this. Heater plug wont do anything.

It really could be anything, you could have a hole in the fuel line, your turbo could be shot, anything.

You could always try a fuel suppliment to clean your injectors out at a long shot? You can get it cheap at asda or motormart.

I was unable to get the filter off as it was really tight.... tried using 2 types of removal tools and both fail due to the location and having room in the engine bay to work.

I just totally forgot about the plugs but will change tomorrow just to be on the safe side... I am not loosing fuel else where as I have had it checked over for that fault at the time they repaired the ovbious leak which was quite recent.

rosscobley

Dont sound like turbo to me. diesel filter wont cause it. Sounds like a leak or diesel pump turned up to far... Or you are driving in first gear flat out everywhere lol.

If the pump was turned up a lot it would be really fast but you would have loads of black smoke and it would drink diesel. How long you owned it

Tight_Wad_5

rosscobley wrote:

Dont sound like turbo to me. diesel filter wont cause it. Sounds like a leak or diesel pump turned up to far... Or you are driving in first gear flat out everywhere lol.

If the pump was turned up a lot it would be really fast but you would have loads of black smoke and it would drink diesel. How long you owned it

several months, the gentleman I bought it off was a farmer and he claimed the fuel pump had then recently been re-built professionally at a cost £380ish but at the next MOT the garage informed me that one of the fuel lines entering the fuel pump had not been nipped up tight enough and was loosing a little bit of fuel but never the less it was a fail so I paid aroud a £100 for the garage to nip it up and PASS the MOT apparently the reason it was £100 is because you have to remove things like the intercooler to access the fuel lines... but I feel it the fuel pump is set too high, can anyone recommed a diesel specialist in the Manchester area as the guys at the garage where clueless... to say the least.:o

Tight_Wad_5

It is driving me bonkers :mad: