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Bought one a few months ago. TD4 XS love it but bit dissapointed on the average mpg figure.
currently 30mpg arount town rising to 40ish on a good run.
Is this the norm?
Yep.
Yes
which engine?
I have a FL 1B (series 1, but with some of the silliness fixed. Still called a gaylander down the pub round these parts though 😉 )
I get about 35mpg on average out of it. 2.0L TD4 common rail. It's a good engine.
Ah the Bmw designed, Rover with a Citroen/Peugot engine,built by scoucers for an indian company.
Its a big thing to drag along the road and not that aerodynamic, switch off the aircon, and when stopped at trafic lights,drive at a steady speed dont exceed 60 mph,dont accelerate hard, dont use supermarket fuel, take anyting not needed out.
The series one td4 was a BMW engine up to 2006 with permanent 4wd. The freelander 2 has a pug engine and a haldex diff on demand 4wd. The beemer series one is the one to have apparently if your an enthusiast as with all landy's there are snags to ownership etc.
I had the earlier one, effin-tank, can't imagine it got better by so much that it was enough.
We rarely get over 30mpg combined in our auto HSE version.
My wife has a 56 auto TD at 90k.
Whatever you do, do not use supermarket fuel - now 3rd set of injectors...
And 30-33mpg seems the norm, and it will also run a set of front pads between services, so keep an eye out.
Don't think mine has ever got up to 40 mpg 🙁
eek.... Glad i dont do many miles per year! we had a Volvo V50 Drive which returned around 60mpg and £30 per year road tax!
Big jump in running costs
Dunno what ours does in mpg (we're metric here in Oz), but it's on board computer reckons 7.9l/100km. That's a mixture of city, loooooooooooong drives, twisty roads and a decent amount of dirt too.
I suspect it will drop when we put some proper wellies on it, but compared to the alternatives for what we use it for, I doubt there's anything that can touch it.