G'day guys, Jase here.
Now today I'm at the servo, because what I've got to do is...
I've got to sort of blow this myth out the door that having Rameater, and everyone's
going to think that Rameater-- well everyone says it in the comments that Rameater, it's
going to cost a fortune to fuel it.
So if they won it, it would cost an absolute fortune.
I'd need another 100 grand just to fuel the thing.
Well I'm going to blow that myth out the door, because I reckon this thing is a lot more
fuel efficient than you think.
Now today we're going to fuel her up here at the servo, and then straight away, I'm
going to do the calculations.
And we're going to go for a big run, burn that fuel, and see what sort of fuel economy
we get.
Now I have got a tinny on the back, because we're going to go fishing as well.
I don't want to just drive around and do nothing.
I've got a little tinny on the back, which won't make much difference to its capacity.
All right, let's fuel her up.
All right so we'll fuel her up.
Top it right up, and then we'll go for a big run.
We're gonna head north for about...
I'm probably gonna do about three or four hundred kilometres, and then I'll top it back
up, see how much fuel we use.
So we'll zero the trip meter.
It's got a fairly advanced fuel economy calculator actually on the dash of this truck, but we're
going to do it both ways.
We'll do it with a calculator, how you normally would do it, and we'll use the system that
we got on the dash.
All right, so I've zeroed the trip meter there.
Trip fuel meter.
It's very detailed.
It's got like average fuel consumption, the kilometres we're going to run, the time, and
also at the moment it's saying that with the fuel that I've got, I've got 692 kilometers.
Now I'm not sure exactly on how many litres the fuel tank holds.
We'll get that information to you.
But away we go.
Let's go do some ks and see what the fuel economy is like in this thing.
Oh yeah by the way I have dialed it down to what we call pretty much a standard tune,
so we're not going to go race tune.
Just going to go standard.
Tinny on the back, do some highway miles, then we'll do some-- it'll be just driving
through you know normal street driving.
You know, city driving.
We're not going to the city, but city driving.
And then back highway miles, so it'll be a little bit of mixture of both.
All right, see how we go.
All right so after driving for about god knows how long, four or five hours, we're gonna
fuel back up and do the sums.
So fill it back up to exactly what put him back up, right full again.
See how many litres we used over, um just done over 300 kilometres.
It's probably not a full tank of juice, but it's enough to get a bit of a reading.
So 60 litres of diesel.
I'll check the trip.
I'll see what the trip on the dash has done or the little computer has calculated.
So we did 60 litres of fuel.
I better pay for it first before I forget.
All right so let's have a look here.
What I'll do now is I'll do the calculations.
And yeah, work it out at 60 litres, 309 kilometres, let's see what that comes to.
All right so there you go.
So whatever was on the dash there was about 18.4.
So 309 kilometers used about 60 litres of fuel.
I did some quick calculations on my phone, and it actually come in at about 19.
So just over 19 litres per 100ks.
So that's what we were towing.
We were towing the boat there.
That's the 4.2, as you know.
Roof rack, awnings, 37 inch tyres, okay the black bear 37-inch tyres, um you know with
the lift and all that, you know and they're mud tyres.
So in all in all, I actually get better fuel economy than my 200 series Landcruiser when
I'm towing.
So I reckon it's come in pretty good, considering the size of this truck and what's on it.
I reckon in standard form, I have heard that they'll do something like 11 litres to the
100ks.
G'day guys so uh I did some calculations on Rameater.
Now to put everything into perspective,
you've got to sort of give it something to sort of balance it against or something to
sort of compare, really compare.
So what I've gone and done we've gone to the boat on the back of Simon's D-MAX.
Now very similar...
Canopy, mud tyres, lift kit, you know roof rack, same as Rameater, same boat.
Very similar.
Let's see what Simon's D-MAX does in litres per 100k compared to Rameater and that'll give
you a better idea of how economical I reckon the Rameater is going to be.
So same thing, let's go and get some fuel in here.
Jump in the car, take it for a spin, come back, fuel it back up, and do the calculations.
All right, so I just filled it back up now, and uh I better go and pay for this fuel as well.
Then we'll go home and do the calculations and see how good it is.
All right guys so I've finally finished doing the D-MAX in comparison to the Rameater.
All right so went for a little run in the D-MAX now very similar trucks as in you know
canopy, lift kit, roof rooftop tents, the tyres are a little bit different as you can
see and also the heights and the size of the engine.
But you know very similar trucks as in touring vehicles.
Now remember Rameater came in at 18.4 on the dash okay.
So that was how it calculated its average litres.
When I did it on the cold hard numbers, that's by travelling the distance was over 300 kilometers
and put about 60 litres in there, coming at 19.
Okay just over 19 litres per 100k.
That's Rameater.
The D-MAX, and you're not going to believe this, okay, towing exactly the same boat traveling
exactly the same kilometers, I filled the D-MAX back up and I put the numbers into my phone.
I've just done the calculation now exactly the same way as I've done Rameater.
And the D-MAX comes smack bang on 18 litres to the 100k. 19.4 -- 18.
How cool is that?
I wouldn't believe it unless I did it, but ol' Rameater is actually a lot more fuel efficient
than you think.
And it's not going to need a super tanker following behind to fuel the thing up.
And I reckon the more weight that you put on the Rameater, it probably won't change
much.
Whereas the D-MAX being a smaller 4-cylinder diesel, it's going to be working a lot harder.
Because that Rameater, it's not working hard at all even when it's towing three tonne.
There you go guys.
If that doesn't bust the myth when it comes to fuel economy or fuel efficiency in a truck
that size, I don't know what will.