Fuel consumption

Corelli said:
Uhm Hiluxes dont break. What on earth did you do? Its like Rolls Royce before.

A friend of mine had one, it broke one day, called Rolls Royce. They picked up the car, got the part from the UK and dropped the fixed car at him. He waited a month but didnt get the final bill which they said they would send him. So he called them and they had no knowledge of his car or that they fixed it. The mechanic simply said "Roll Royces dont break down, so no way we couldve fixed it, nor could you get the bill for fixing them".
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Odd, now you're reciting Urban Legends as if "your mate" experienced it.
 
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Not bad, but this is trying to save fuel. Driving on the dot at the speed limit. Slightly lower on the highway.
 
I've done 4.7l/100km in a Mazda CX-3 (2l Petrol engine) on the M1/N1 from Melrose (JHB) to Moreleta Park (PTA) doing max 100km and using cruise control. Very little traffic though so it was a smooth drive. I was very impressed with it.
 
Last 4000km
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Eish.

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Haven't driven the car since August though, on account of the engine grenading itself. It's currently in the shop getting a heart transplant.
 
airborne said:
Oh no, what happened to the engine and are you putting in a 2hnd motor or rebuilding it?
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Ag, basically it turns out that the guy who previously worked on the engine patched it enough for it to run for a while, because there was absolute carnage inside it when it was stripped. There was also evidence of it being worked on quite recently before I took ownership as per my mecchie, and also evidence of the car being overheated many times prior to me taking ownership of it. Surprisingly it ran well up until...it didn't.

It went in for valve stem seals and carbon cleaning, but that snowballed. Here's what was replaced/repaired with a little story of how it happened.

The valve stem seals were replaced as the old ones were hard and leaking oil. Then it was found that the valve guides were ovalled due to the head which had metal contamination inside which chewed up the journals as well as the camshafts, which were badly gouged and worn from metallic debris stemming from the oil pump, which seized up due to a locked up balancing assembly, which also ripped the crankshaft sprocket off and broke the teeth and seized the chain. The oil consumption also caused detonation so the pistons, rings, gudgeon pins, bearings and conrods were also replaced, but then they found that the bore was oval so it had to be machined and rehoned. The oil filter housing is also busted and was leaking, so that was replaced, as well as a heater hose running from the back of the car that was held on with Pratley epoxy. They also polished the crank but it was still in good enough condition, and it was basically the only part in the entire engine that was still in workable condition.

I did consider dropping in another engine, but either way, I would have been out the same amount of cash, but going the repair route I know that the engine's weak points are addressed (seizing balancing shaft, incorrect spec oil control rings, hollow camshafts) and I have a 5-year warranty on the workmanship vs 90 days for an import engine.

To satisfy my own curiosity I called Audi and asked them for a price on a head for the car, which came to just over R89k + exchange. Needless to say I did not pursue that route at all.

@Craig_ it's an older Audi A4 with the 2.0T motor. I think the consumption should come down once all the repairs are done, since burning all that oil could not have been good for the fuel economy.
 
18 month average.
Pity diesel price so wrong at the moment.
Keeping tires on the firm side makes a large difference in this smaller SUV.
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