KM/L what kind of mileage do you get on average?

Fung · Post by **Fung** » Sat Oct 05, 2013 12:10 am

Hey, Netrover

Quite curious here do you fill up your gas with 95 or 98 and which gas station..
To get 9.2km cruising around in town is pretty good.. Ive only managed to get 8km/l maximum with gull force 10.. If I could get over 9.2km/l it would be pretty amazing since this is my daily car..

On the motorway I would get about 12-12.5km/l using cruise control

netrover · Post by **netrover** » Sat Oct 05, 2013 8:38 am

CroneOne wrote:
Have you managed to achieve better mileage since your earlier posts CroneOne?
Is your Z a kiwi version or a Japanese import? Just curious. I'm amazed at those numbers.
Even on the highway I've never seen over 6.8 or so km/l

Imported from Japan.

netrover · Post by **netrover** » Sat Oct 05, 2013 8:53 am

Fung wrote:Hey, Netrover

Quite curious here do you fill up your gas with 95 or 98 and which gas station..
To get 9.2km cruising around in town is pretty good.. Ive only managed to get 8km/l maximum with gull force 10.. If I could get over 9.2km/l it would be pretty amazing since this is my daily car..

On the motorway I would get about 12-12.5km/l using cruise control

I always use 98 which can only be obtained from BP in Christchurch.

About 20% of my mileage would be around town. The rest is on winding hill roads which require lots of braking, cornering, and acceleration, none of which is conducive to good mileage. Or tyre wear!

I think I got around 12.5 on the very straight roads between Christchurch and Hanmer once driving conservatively. Will be doing that trip again on Thursday I think so will reset the meter.

When we do the Leader Road cruise in November Kirihi and I should reset our meters and compare results at the end.

CroneOne · Post by **CroneOne** » Sat Oct 05, 2013 9:23 am

I use 98 BP too. Doesn't make a difference from 95 in mileage from
what I've tested.
Yeah assuming that your tank is 80L you should get about
700 kms on a full tank.

That's being conservative. Subtracting 10L (guess) for the reserve part
of your tank and 10 km/l average. This is still 250-300 more km
a tank than I can squeeze out on city driving.

I reckon I could break 500 pretty easy on highway driving.

kirihi · Post by **kirihi** » Sat Oct 05, 2013 11:13 am

netrover wrote:When we do the Leader Road cruise in November Kirihi and I should reset our meters and compare results at the end.

Sounds like a plan...

mal.d · Post by **mal.d** » Wed Oct 16, 2013 2:58 pm

Hi, when I first bought my car in Lower Hutt I drove to Waipukurau and topped up there. I was just under the speed limit most of the way and used 9.88 lt/100 km.

I was surprised that it was not much different from my Subaru Legacy GT I expected the 350z to be worse than it was.

Cheers

bugjuice · Post by **bugjuice** » Wed Oct 16, 2013 11:56 pm

On a drive from Taupo back to Auckland, I 0'd the trip and was really impressed with the car, I had to take evidence! Wasn't going tooo easy thru the twisties either!

jam350z · Post by **jam350z** » Fri Oct 18, 2013 4:59 pm

Ok, filled up with 98, still has that rattle so will be a heatshield or some such, still driving it like I stole it, and still averaging 6km/l. Did show 8 again after tanking, but me thinks it is just a little optimistic hahahaha

OMSIN · Post by **OMSIN** » Fri Oct 18, 2013 9:22 pm

jam350z wrote:Ok, filled up with 98, still has that rattle so will be a heatshield or some such, still driving it like I stole it, and still averaging 6km/l. Did show 8 again after tanking, but me thinks it is just a little optimistic hahahaha

I have a rattle coming from what sounds like the rear passenger side of the car, I just had my down pipes and Y pipe replaced with straight through aftermarket pipes, seems to have reduced the rattle significantly... (also pretty bloody aggressive on full throttle)

jam350z · Post by **jam350z** » Tue Oct 29, 2013 11:46 am

Ok I'm back with another report... nearly finished that tank of 98. I've given it some more head over the last half of the tank, not really making any effort towards economy whatsoever. You know what, I'm up to 6.3km/l now. The more I thrash the damn thing, the better the mileage I get (all around town mind). Weird.

netrover · Post by **netrover** » Tue Oct 29, 2013 9:58 pm

Reset trip computer on entering the motorway north of Christchurch on Saturday on the way to Waipara. Quite a lot of traffic heading away for the long weekend so quite sedate driving. Figures were 11.8 km/l averaging 86km/h to Waipara.

OMSIN · Post by **OMSIN** » Wed Oct 30, 2013 6:47 pm

When I first got my car the avg was around 8.8km/l, since resetting it and doing all the factory reset / learning procedures its hovering around 9.1km/l - that's giving it a thrash / some city driving and the odd road trip mixed in there. 95 / 98 has no noticeable effect to me (costs more, that's it)

netrover · Post by **netrover** » Sun Nov 03, 2013 6:14 pm

OK, on the North Canterbury cruise today, I clocked up 320km between filling the tank to the neck with 98 at BP Edgeware, and filling it to the same point at the end of the day. Based on litres refilled and the mileage, it worked out at 11.64 km per litre.

NOSFEDZ32 · Post by **NOSFEDZ32** » Mon Nov 04, 2013 10:31 pm

mmm I can get 610km out of a tank in my stagea which is 4wd... interesting comparison... however my "other" kind of Z arrr one gets about 650km...

jam350z · Post by **jam350z** » Wed Feb 12, 2014 2:40 pm

Ok, one last update. Around town, definitely between 6-7km/l. On the open road, an easy 8-9. Heck even cruising at 160 with an average over 200km over 100km/h gives an easy 8-9.