Improved fuel consumption

When driving recently, I was able to improve the diesel mileage from 15.1 mpg (15.8 l per 100km) to 20.2 mpg (11.8 l per 100km). 

This could be either because now that the vehicle no longer just stands around at the dealer but is driven, it is more in motion and the engine is better lubricated.

Or it could be because I deliberately have been paying attention and was driving much slower that initially.

The van easily goes with 120 km/h (70 mph), the engine with its 150hp has no problems accelerating the van, and it feels still driving very smoothly at that speed. But the big Luton box will cause a lot of drag, and that has probably brought the fuel consumption up.

 

Recently I have limited my speed to 80 km/h (50 mph), and the result was this lower consumption. Will observe if I can keep this consumption so low.

Terrible mileage

On some pamphlet of the seller there was a mention of 30 mpg for the fuel consumption. Turns out that was overly optimistic: the big Luton box is not very smooth in the wind of driving, and when going more than 80 km/h, this is a major factor. Not sure what the cw value for this vehicle is...

But when filling up, I got around 15-16 mpg. Not very impressive... the LDV had an overall average of 25.5 mpg, over all the past 6 years.

I will probably need to drive much slower. Even though the vehicle drives very smooth at 70 mph. But that is probably not a very efficient speed... 

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