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Hi, It seems that my car just eats up fuel like id be getting maybee 200km 300km a tank when people are telling me they are getting 400km maybe 450km give or take and they have exactly the same cars. Im just considering options of how to increase fuel efficiency. Most likely im going to convert to duel fuel gas/petrol and will getting the conversion done means they will clean up parts of my engine that could have been eating my fuel? what are other ways of conserving fuel such as products ect...
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If you haven't done so recently, change the air filter.
Give the throttle body a good clean out (off the car) - especially around the idle valve.
And lastly, a common fault with high consumption is dead oxygen sensors, so maybe look into those as we |
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Spot on, Mick.
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we get about 550-600kms out of each tank in our VS V6. Do as mentioned above and use cruise control where you can too.
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Hi jono.
You may well have a problem with an oxygen sensor or similar, but you will need to quantify the actual fuel usage.
To say 'maybe 200 or 300 km out of a tank' is not very accurate. The best way is to firstly see if you speedo is accurate, on |
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