Maybe they did...it was reading 1/2 full when I woke up!

Came back from a meeting on Monday night zeroed the trip cmputer on the M18, set the cruise control to 56 mph afer 25 miles the mpg was 56.5 gas guzzlers my ar e

managed to get over 500 miles out the old girl last week.
Mixture of in town, long a roads and even a few miles off road!

Very pleased.

I know we can all get a bit happy with ourselves for owning the FL2, but I took this after 83 miles on a 350 mile round trip yesterday, althouth admittedly it dropped to 45.4 by the time I got home. My mate owns a Santa Fe (Rice and sweet and sour - You know the one) He is absolutly gutted with his 30-32 MPG

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I'm not sure, but I can't help thinking you shouldn't be taking pictures of your dash while driving at 58mph.

Sorry, it won't happen again.  FL2 TD4 XS Santorini

Wow. I wish the TD4 was available here in the US. I've been happy with 16-17mpg in city and 21-22 on the highway. I think it's an oil company conspiracy.

We think 4.50 gal for diesel fuel is too expensive here. I'll take the 40+ mpg!

According to the dash computer my tractor was burning 30L of diesel/hour today while ploughing a field at about 5 mph only 60p/L though At work
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Have you tried using the Freelander to plough with?

ploughing the field

I guess you decided to give up on the harvesting with all this rain  Former Mod/Member, with the most post & Chicken George Arch nemesis

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USA MPG said:

Wow. I wish the TD4 was available here in the US. I've been happy with 16-17mpg in city and 21-22 on the highway. I think it's an oil company conspiracy.

We think 4.50 gal for diesel fuel is too expensive here. I'll take the 40+ mpg!

npinks wrote:

ploughing the field

I guess you decided to give up on the harvesting with all this rain

Harvest plough and sow the field again all should be finished by mid Oct At work
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chicken george wrote:

npinks wrote:

ploughing the field

I guess you decided to give up on the harvesting with all this rain

Harvest plough and sow the field again all should be finished by mid Oct

In Norway the farmers get subsidised (cheaper) diesel for farmers/tractor use. The only difference is the colour of the stuff for identifying unlawful use. Just wondered if the UK had a similar system?  2007 Freelander 2 HSE TD4 Manual with Premium Pack & Moonroof.
Stornoway Grey with Ebony Black Pleather, Clear Indicators, Body Side Mouldings etc.

Tractor fuel is dyed red to identify it, It is not subsidised, it receives a much lower rate of duty than road fuel mainly because tractors don't spent much of their life on the road. Any tractor not employed in a farming role whilst on the highway would have to run on road fuel at the high duty rate.

Recently at the Yorkshire show a fleet of tractors where employed to tow wagons out of the grass car parks, as these tractors towed the trucks from field to highway the customs and excise decided they should have road fuel in their tanks so stopped the towing operation causing big delays for the stranded trucks.

I might add that the customs and excise vans are frequently at agricultural events to test the fuel in car tanks to make sure farmers and their friends arn't pouring the cheap stuff into their cars. At work
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C&E are a set of

A tractor pulling out a vehicle off agricultral land is going to be on the road for very little time, then back on the field to do it again.

C&E obviousley saw ££££ in their eyes  Former Mod/Member, with the most post & Chicken George Arch nemesis