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  1. Join Date
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    Hi, I need help in estimating the distance of my trip yesterday, because I'm trying to compute for my FC. I know this would have been much easier by just measuring my odometer mileage, but my odometer doesn't work.

    So here's the route:

    Pasig Kapitolyo - C5 - Katipunan (approx 11 km)
    Katipunan - Tomas Morato - E.Rod. - Q.Ave - Dangwa (no idea, 15 km?)
    Dangwa/UST - Taft/P.Faura (5 km?)
    Taft - Quirino - SLEX - Eton Exit - Tagaytay (70 km?)
    Palace in the Sky - Cliff House (10 km?)
    Cliff House - Eton Exit - SLEX - C5 - Katipunan - Commonwealth - Fairview (90 km?)
    Fairview - Pasig Kapitolyo (24 km)

    If my estimates are correct, I travelled around 225 KM.

    I used up around 1.2k worth of gas (gassed up 1k but consumed a little more), so given today's prices (48.20), that's approximately 25L.

    This means I'm only making 9 km/L on mostly highway driving. This is sad because it's an L200 with a 4D56 engine that was overhauled just a few years ago. I thought the 4D56 had legendary fuel efficiency?

    Is there a mistake in my computation of distance?

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    Quote Originally Posted by jut703 View Post
    Hi, I need help in estimating the distance of my trip yesterday, because I'm trying to compute for my FC. I know this would have been much easier by just measuring my odometer mileage, but my odometer doesn't work.

    So here's the route:

    Pasig Kapitolyo - C5 - Katipunan (approx 11 km)
    Katipunan - Tomas Morato - E.Rod. - Q.Ave - Dangwa (no idea, 15 km?)
    Dangwa/UST - Taft/P.Faura (5 km?)
    Taft - Quirino - SLEX - Eton Exit - Tagaytay (70 km?)
    Palace in the Sky - Cliff House (10 km?)
    Cliff House - Eton Exit - SLEX - C5 - Katipunan - Commonwealth - Fairview (90 km?)
    Fairview - Pasig Kapitolyo (24 km)

    If my estimates are correct, I travelled around 225 KM.

    I used up around 1.2k worth of gas (gassed up 1k but consumed a little more), so given today's prices (48.20), that's approximately 25L.

    This means I'm only making 9 km/L on mostly highway driving. This is sad because it's an L200 with a 4D56 engine that was overhauled just a few years ago. I thought the 4D56 had legendary fuel efficiency?

    Is there a mistake in my computation of distance?
    la din tripmeter? paayos mo na yan bro.
    Fasten your seatbelt! Or else... Driven To Thrill!

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    #3
    use your trip meter

  4. Join Date
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    with all due respect... i question your methodology.
    first, you estimated distance is precisely that: an estimate. it can be anywhere within +/- 20%, if you are lucky..
    second, you are not sure how much fuel you used..
    third, the tagaytay trip involves a slope. i am not sure the mileages involving this segment, are a true rendition of your fuel efficiency. i am not sure if it is safe to assume their (dis)advantages cancel out each other. and this involves more than 50% of your studied estimated distance.
    my suggestion: have your odometer fixed. anything less than that, and your figures are immediately questionable. and involve longer distances over longer periods of time.
    Last edited by dr. d; May 5th, 2011 at 08:53 PM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by jut703 View Post
    Hi, I need help in estimating the distance of my trip yesterday, because I'm trying to compute for my FC. I know this would have been much easier by just measuring my odometer mileage, but my odometer doesn't work.

    So here's the route:

    Pasig Kapitolyo - C5 - Katipunan (approx 11 km)
    Katipunan - Tomas Morato - E.Rod. - Q.Ave - Dangwa (no idea, 15 km?)
    Dangwa/UST - Taft/P.Faura (5 km?)
    Taft - Quirino - SLEX - Eton Exit - Tagaytay (70 km?)
    Palace in the Sky - Cliff House (10 km?)
    Cliff House - Eton Exit - SLEX - C5 - Katipunan - Commonwealth - Fairview (90 km?)
    Fairview - Pasig Kapitolyo (24 km)

    If my estimates are correct, I travelled around 225 KM.

    I used up around 1.2k worth of gas (gassed up 1k but consumed a little more), so given today's prices (48.20), that's approximately 25L.

    This means I'm only making 9 km/L on mostly highway driving. This is sad because it's an L200 with a 4D56 engine that was overhauled just a few years ago. I thought the 4D56 had legendary fuel efficiency?

    Is there a mistake in my computation of distance?
    You are using a rebuilt engine from years ago.
    Driving with aircon in summer.
    With a broken ODO meter.

    What are you expecting?

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    #6
    Yes, the tripmeter is broken as well. And yes, I know the proper procedure to measure mileage. Thing is, I just borrowed this car and it's not the one I usually drive. Which is why I'm trying to estimate the distance I drove.

    I'm quite certain with the amount of fuel I gassed up, what I need to be certain of is the distance I traveled. All I'm sure of is the distance from Pasig to Katipunan and from Fairview to Pasig. The rest, I'm not quite sure of, which is why I asked here in the navigation forums.

    I've experienced over 11 km/L with a Tagaytay trip in an Altis 2.0V, which is why I'm wondering why the low mileage.

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    ^^^ Marami ba kayong nakasakay sa van? Ilan kayo, bro?...

    13.0K:funa:

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    Just two, me and my passenger.

    I've given it some thought and assuming that my calculations of distance are about right, and my fuel consumption is somewhere between 9-10 KM/L for the L200, then I think the low numbers could be attested to my driving.

    It was my first time driving an awfully slow car on a long-distance trip, and I'm used to traveling at 100-140 kph on the highway if the traffic allows. I didn't have a working speedometer during the trip, but seeing as I was able to overtake most cars on the highway (the trip up is a different story, the old pickup took forever to pass a car uphill, it was almost dangerous), I guess I was also traveling at around 100-120 kph.

    This may have put so much stress on the engine (no tachometer but I have this feeling I was near the redline since I wasn't increasing in speed anymore even if I floored it), that even if the engine is inherently efficient, when at 100% load, it gobbles diesel as well. Driving at those speeds with a 2-liter vehicle on the other hand isn't as stressful to the engine, which may explain why the fuel consumption is better.

    This is of course, just a theory, and I just based it on the Top Gear feature wherein an M3 had better mileage than a Prius around the track, with both cars going at the fastest the Prius can go.

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    Simple lang ang pag compute ng distance nyan bro. Gamitin mo google earth. yun nga lang, kailangan mo pagtyagaan ng konti.

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    That was quite a good estimate. Here's an estimate from Mapsource

    Pasig Kapitolyo - C5 - Katipunan : 9 km
    Katipunan - Tomas Morato - E.Rod. - Q.Ave - Dangwa : 15 km
    Dangwa/UST - Taft/P.Faura : 5 km
    Taft - Quirino - SLEX - Eton Exit - Tagaytay : 81 km
    Palace in the Sky - Cliff House : 11 km (22km roundtrip)
    Cliff House - Eton Exit - SLEX - C5 - Katipunan - Commonwealth - Fairview : 83 km
    Fairview - Pasig Kapitolyo : 20 km

    A total 235 km.


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