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realspeed

Member Since: 26 Mar 2011
Location: East Sussex
Posts: 574

Mine is 1 yr old manual diesel has 8000 miles on the clock and its returning 34 mpg around the houses. As for your low MPG the engine has to "bed in" and is still " tight". You will find that as a few thousand miles are on the clock you should get better fuel consumption.

Realspeed Ex 2010 Freelander2 GS-e Diesel manual Silver owner

12th Jul 2011 7:03 am

bigalf1961

Member Since: 14 Mar 2011
Location: manchester
Posts: 846

2011 Freelander 2 TD4_e XS Manual Lago Grey

mine did not give good fuel consumption untill i had got approx 5 to 6,000 miles on the clock now i get high 30,s local mid 40,s motorway rainy-city
xs

12th Jul 2011 7:09 am

alanbgt

Member Since: 08 Nov 2010
Location: Somerset
Posts: 56

2010 Freelander 2 TD4_e HSE Manual Bali Blue

33mpg over 14.000 miles

Bought car at 7k miles.

Best I've ever got is 36.5. Brim ti brim over the 14.000 miles.

Mix of local, but mostly motorway (cruising 70-75)

Alan MY10 TD4.e HSE
Bali Blue

12th Jul 2011 7:37 am

iain cooper

Member Since: 27 Aug 2007
Location: north of Glasgow
Posts: 1989

2009 Freelander 2 TD4_e HSE Manual Lago Grey

Re: same old

landy19840 wrote:
buy a diesel yaris if you want fuel economy not a land rover

my wife has a Toyota IQ...............65mph/3 years free servicing/5 years warranty/no road tax

in over 40 years of driving I've never seen a car so cheap to run !!

not a lot of room, really a 2+2, but great around town, will turn on a sixpence, and even good on the motorway.

Iain

12th Jul 2011 7:54 am

colinrr

Member Since: 08 Feb 2011
Location: North Gloucestershire
Posts: 104

2011 Freelander 2 SD4 HSE Auto Stornoway Grey

Re: same old

Swingwing wrote:
landy19840 wrote:
buy a diesel yaris if you want fuel economy not a land rover

Ain't it the truth.

32ish pottering about 36 on runs - SD4 2000 miles

That's about the same as mine which is an auto. There is quite a difference between the manual and auto MPG. I miss the lockup feature the 4 speed Borg Warner box had on my old discovery and R/ Rover. On a motorway there was virtually no difference in economy between the manual cars and autos as the 'fluid flywheel' locked to give no slip once you rerached 54 mph. Having said that, the 6 speed auto box on the FL2 is superb in every other way and I am willing to forgo the drop in economy for that.

Colin 1982 RR Classic-converted to 200TDi-gone
1992 RR VogueSE- converted to autogas-gone
2000 FL1 3dr (wife's)
1996 Disco 1 300 Tdi(gone)
2007 FL2 TD4 GS auto (gone)
MY 2011 SD4 HSE Automatic

12th Jul 2011 8:05 am

npinks

Member Since: 28 Jun 2007
Location: Ls25
Posts: 20090

merged identical threads Former Mod/Member, with the most post & Chicken George Arch nemesis

12th Jul 2011 8:55 am

pressureman

Member Since: 23 Sep 2010
Location: Lancastrian in Hampshire!
Posts: 128

2013 Freelander 2 SD4 HSE Lux Auto Indus Silver

I guess the trip meter is not too accurate so I have kept a log of fuel usage over the last 10k miles and it gives an average of 35.9 mpg. This includes a few hundred miles of what CG would call anti-social behaviour, with the mansion-on-wheels behind. Not quite as bad as I was expecting.

12th Jul 2011 12:11 pm

druand

Member Since: 07 Sep 2009
Location: south ayrshire
Posts: 825

2013 Freelander 2 SD4 GS Auto Fuji White

Jubilado Boy, 32mpg for a 2008 model is about what I averaged in mine, 2011 SD an improvement and its an auto. 39mpg
If keeping long term a remap (NOT a plug on box) will help mpg possibly by 5mpg, also adding 250 ml 2-stroke oil to diesel tank helps, Read threads on forum, very interesting and it works. All FL2's (3) Gone
2011 Mercedes C180 CGI Gone
FL2 GS Auto SD with heated leather, factory tints, alloy spare and a few other bits.

12th Jul 2011 4:48 pm

chicken george

Member Since: 05 Dec 2007
Location: N. Yorks
Posts: 13289

2008 Freelander 2 TD4 XS Manual Santorini Black

pressureman wrote:
This includes a few hundred miles of what the general public rightly call anti-social behaviour, with the septic tank-on-wheels behind. caravanning is just quite as bad as I was expecting.

At work

At home

"I can't always believe facts I read on the web" - Charles Dickens

winner by default of the tractor vs caravan race

12th Jul 2011 5:03 pm

Boxer

Member Since: 26 Dec 2009
Location: S Wales
Posts: 354

2007 Freelander 2 TD4 GS Manual Zermatt Silver

Just did a 400 mile round trip and averaged 47

07 manual. Don't put petrol in a diesel. They don't run well.

12th Jul 2011 6:31 pm

npinks

Member Since: 28 Jun 2007
Location: Ls25
Posts: 20090

400 at 50mph then Former Mod/Member, with the most post & Chicken George Arch nemesis

12th Jul 2011 6:35 pm

colinrr

Member Since: 08 Feb 2011
Location: North Gloucestershire
Posts: 104

Boxer wrote:
Just did a 400 mile round trip and averaged 47

07 manual.

That's ridiculous!

1982 RR Classic-converted to 200TDi-gone
1992 RR VogueSE- converted to autogas-gone
2000 FL1 3dr (wife's)
1996 Disco 1 300 Tdi(gone)
2007 FL2 TD4 GS auto (gone)
MY 2011 SD4 HSE Automatic

12th Jul 2011 6:58 pm

chicken george

Member Since: 05 Dec 2007
Location: N. Yorks
Posts: 13289

must be the diesel/petrol mix aiding economy or half the trip was on a low loader At work
At home

"I can't always believe facts I read on the web" - Charles Dickens

winner by default of the tractor vs caravan race

12th Jul 2011 7:18 pm

trevd01

Member Since: 17 Dec 2010
Location: Pennine Yorkshire
Posts: 116

2011 Freelander 2 SD4 XS Auto Santorini Black

I forgot to zero my mpg average setting off to work today. About five miles in, I remembered and zero'd it.

A couple of miles later I glanced at the av mpg: 333.6!

It sadly continued to fall and ended up at 42.9 after 22 miles. Average speed 37.9 mph - included a dash at 70 for about 5 miles. Trevor

'60 reg SD4 XS (long gone!)

12th Jul 2011 8:22 pm

sparkybaz

Member Since: 04 Jun 2011
Location: manchester
Posts: 184

2010 Freelander 2 TD4_e HSE Manual Stornoway Grey

36.5 mpg on a 150mile motorway trip

have just done a 160ml round trip,150 ml on the motorway with the cruise on 75mph,36.5mpg way off what lr claim.we should put a joint letter together addressed to lr uk in complaint of their crazy unobtainable figures.

24th Jul 2011 6:07 pm

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