Hi all
Following responses from my first post, I marched off to my Landrover Franchise and questioned why I am getting consistantly 350-370 km's out of a tank of fuel, this equates to around 20 litres per 100 km. Information is I should be using around 15 litres per 100 km's.
The weirdest thing is, last week it ran to half a tank of fuel and was on track for appropriate fuel usage and from halfway on the gauge it just drank it.
My daily running is too and from school, this means about 8 km's open road and 2 km's across town, I live rurally so across town is not a lot of stop start.
The Landrover franchise put it on the computors and found nothing wrong, the franchise is around 80km away and they used this journey to do a fuel check, the result was around 12litres per 100km.
I am at a loss, I am driving very carefully, never exceeding 2200 rpm, no quick getaways. I dont mind saying that this franchise has behaved less than honest in the whole deal on this car, I badly need some ideas as this is costing me 90 dollars a week in fuel.
Hope someone can help.
On the subject of the franchises behavoir, does anyone know who I can speak to at Landrovers head office, heres the story, I modified a 96 110 to accomodate my disability, due to regulation changes over here, the air suspension had to be removed, this left me (a single parent with two kids) having to urgently replace the 110. I went to Landrover as there were no other comparable 110's availiable in the country, I figured a good apraisal/deal. The salesman offered me 23000 based on his retail valuation of 30,000. This week they put my old 110 on the yard at 38000. Assuming that they will negotiate from that price and eventually sell the car for 34000, they STOLE 4000. I read the Landrover magazines like most enthusiates and get the impression that in the UK Landrover is a cut above the rest. That dosnt strech to thier foreign franchises.
Interested in thoughts.