rainbow11

Hi all
I bought my 2005 MY05 XT forester last week and I filled the tank
Up with premium unleaded and I only got 355km out of it! This isn't right is it??
Just driving to and from work and around town. I'm a bit baffled. Could someone tell me if there is something I can do to fix this? The tank of fuel cost me $73!
Thanks

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crewzer

How many litres of fuel did it take to refill the tank after driving 355 km?

How many km's on the odometer?

Where in Australia? What are your winter ambient temperatures?

Regards,
Jim / crewzer

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taza

Rainbow11 that sounds about right with the fuel consumption.
Where abouts in Australia are you?

I get 600km around town in my 2.0l N/A foz, around 54l ish fuel up with Octane 95. Im pretty heavy footed with it too

So for the EJ25T thats about right. on the highway you should be looking at getting around the 500km range, maybe abit more.

Taza

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rainbow11

Thread Starter

I'm in Nsw. I'm unsure how many litres the tank is. $1.54 a litre and costing $74 to fill it.
I live on the coast and winter is around 9-18 degrees? Average.

It sounds like alot of fuel to burn just around town when I hardly put my foot down. I've put $100 in it in a week!!! :(
Is there any gadgets or things I can buy to get better fuel economy?


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rainbow11

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And the fuel light was on


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taza

You can get a Scangauge II whwich will just give you figures and l/100km figures as your driving. It will be real time too so if you put your foot down then the your comsuption will go up. but atleast it will tell you. It also tells works out a rough estimate of how many litres are in the tank. you just mount it in your car and can monitor heaps of things.

ScanGaugeII - Australian Sales and Support by Ample Outdoors

Its an australian product, I knwo heaps of guys over at offroad Subarus using them all with positive feedback.

Otherthings which will hugely affect your fuel economy is air pressure. I keep 36psi all round but i do have ovesized offroad tyres on my foz. So about 32 or 33psi should be good. that will have a huge impact if they are let down. Otherwise a clean air filter. If they make no difference then thats what your enconmy will be.

I worked out you got 14l per 100km. Thats about right for the Xt and I think its about 10 on the highway (from the specs sheet). You have a 60L tank and your fuel light comes on when there is roughly 9L left in the tank. I can usually safely do 60km with the fuel light on.

Hope this is of some help.
Taza

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rainbow11

Thread Starter

Thankyou so much!!! That was very helpful. I put 32 psi in my tyres the other day, they do look a little flat. And I always thought it was the other way round with fuel and flat tyres?

As I just traded a mazda3 for this car, I'm figuring out lots of things and these forums are so great!


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taza

If you have any more questions feel free to ask or pm me.

Taza

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