Shaneous wrote:Been 7 months and I can't shake 10.6 km's per litre
i knew it wouldn't be the advertised 7.9.. but I was hoping for around 9.... ahh well.
Shaneous, 7.9 in the Suzuki Literature refers to Litres per 100km's or 12.6km/L. 10.6km/L works out to 9.4 L/100km. You can set up the trip computer to show either, which one is your's set to?
I seem to get a consistent 7.9L/100km (29.7MPG US) in my XLS manual. Best figures on a trip with mostly freeway of 6.5L/100km or 36.2mpg. On my current tank I'm at about 7.7L/100km. I drive fairly conservatively on a mix of 50/50 urban/freeway. I've done the math on fill up and the actual reading when the computer shows 7.9 is around 8.4l/100km, so its out .5 L/100km or so. The more urban stop start driving you do, the more this figure becomes inaccurate. If you were to do a whole tank on the freeway, you'll find the trip computer to be pretty close to actual. Bare in mind that fuel pumps aren't always accurate (expecially if they can squeeze more dollars out of you) and even the temperature of the fuel can make a difference to the volume.
The trip computers speedo (versus the speedometer dial which is about 5km down) is fairly accurate as previously discussed, so your distances covered as per the trip computer should be right.
I've found that the Distance to Empty only counts down to the point that the fuel light will come on, at which point it will show --- . The car will do another 80km's or so with the fuel light, although no where in the literature have I found how many litres are supposed to be in the tank when the fuel light comes on, like ever other car I've owned does. Haven't run out of fuel yet and a couple of times I've gotten 63.2L and 62L in it respectively, filling up at around 730kms driven. Think I might do a jerry can drive and see how big the tank is, unless someone's done this already
Jezza
