Atilla,

You can have mine for £500 less than I paid for it!

 

Hola Silverpaul

Your theory seems sound to me, though I claim no great mechanical knowledge. My 2.7L V6 Tucson seems to have just the right balance of power to weight, although I have been driving cars with slightly bigger engines (3.0 L, 4.0 L) previously. For us it came down to a choice between the Tucson V6 and the Nissan X-Trail (not sure if that is its name outside Australia), which was a 2.5L four. It was no contest, the Tucson was more responsive and a lot quieter.

My first tank disappeared at the rate of 12.8L/100 km. The second tank achieved 10.35L/100Km, but that was because I took it on a 430 km round trip and stuck to the break-in recommendation of keeping under 88 kph. Excruciating! But it showed me that accelerating more slowly will get me better consumption.

 

Hello all,

Got a new Tucson GL V6 AWD in January. Noticed that the fuel consumption was particularly high in comparison to my previous car an '02 Sonata GL V6.
Driving very conservatively using regular (87 octane) gasoline, I am struggling to achieve 400kms per 65l tank in the city -around 16-18l/100km.

Has anyone installed a K & N filter and noticed results?
Or any other suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

Martin

 

Originally posted by neil oconnor@Feb 14 2005, 03:47 PM
hi,
I have 1700km on my V6 and Im still reading 18.1-18.5 litres /100km on the onboard computer . It started off at 19.2 when I bought it first. It just guzzles petrol, and I get about 300km from when I fill her up to when the light comes on. The onboard computer is a waste of time. It tells me after a refil I have 470km till the next refil. After 6km its telling me I have 370km left to drive!!

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Those figures seem a to represent a lot higher consumption than most people are experiencing. Mine has done only 700 kays and consumption started at 14l/100kms and has dropped to 13.8l/100kms for the second tank of fuel. Hopelfully will continue in this direction. I got 400kms out of the first tank and look like getting 440-450 out of the second.

You would hope that its not but something sounds amiss in your Tucson.

You should be getting the same figures (or close to them from the 95 octane) unless (and it sounds like you are not) you are a maniac lead foot driver.

Hope it gets (a lot) better.

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We have just taken delivery of our Tuscon last week so far the FC is 12.5 l/100 on the hyway, I'm not impressed. Hyundai simply say the sticker is only an estimate yeh yeh. Hyundai Australia so far have not accepted any responsability for anything including the 5 month delivery. This forum may help.

 

There seems to be a few problems with FC overseas...so far from what i have read in this forum and the Hyundai Tucson message board.18L/100 KMS is NOT normal!! Mine were spot on with toolbar with I first got my Tuc. Now after nearly 7,000kms it varies....but averages around 12L/100km. I am VERY heavy footed (can't help it with thepower of the V6) and I get between 480km per tank to 520km per tank. If doing alot of highway driving it is around 500km's. I am happy with this. Even though Hyundai states 11L/100km.....No car manufacturer gives the CORRECT FC so keeping this in mind and the fact that it is a very VERY heavy car with a V6 engine you can't really expect much more. I would be happy to get an average of just over 500km/tank. Those of you getting over 14L/100km however have every right to be unhappy. Most of us here in Australia from the posts in the different forums are achieving 11-13L/100km. I wonder why some of our overseas friends are achieving a much higher FC???????Driving conditions?? Fuel quality???

 

I think you are right Kyl in that the Oz cars are about the same and the overseas cars are doing worse. I always thought that Australia got lower quality fuel and therefore thought we would get the lower mileage.

Also I agree with you. After running in if my TucTuc gets around 12l/100kms or about 500kms a tank I will be happy with that. It is a 4wd with a v6. It is what it is.

I am going to put on a K&N filter and Hyclone when my engine is run in to see if any better fuel consumption but that will be a little while off yet.

 

Hi

I too have been quite disappointed with the fuel consumption of the V6.
I live on a small island with very little highway driving and have been averaging approximately 14L/100kmh.

Otherwise I am extremely pleased with the vehicle

 

Originally posted by TOOLBAR@Feb 14 2005, 09:19 PM
Those figures seem a to represent a lot higher consumption than most people are experiencing. Mine has done only 700 kays and consumption started at 14l/100kms and has dropped to 13.8l/100kms for the second tank of fuel. Hopelfully will continue in this direction. I got 400kms out of the first tank and look like getting 440-450 out of the second.

You would hope that its not but something sounds amiss in your Tucson.

You should be getting the same figures (or close to them from the 95 octane) unless (and it sounds like you are not) you are a maniac lead foot driver.

Hope it gets (a lot) better.

:57:

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hi,
yes I have tried driving as careful as possible, being as light on the pedal as one could be. but it made no difference at all. People here with there 3llitre sabbs and 7 series bmws get much better mileage. They laugh when they hear what I get, they think I am joking!
The papers here reviewed it (after I bought it) and rated the tucson very highly but asked if there was a hole in the fuel tank. Hyundai sweden said they would investigate it and came back saying they tested the car and managed 10l/100km on it. They compared it to the 3.5L V8 volvo xc90, which did 13.5 in the test vs the 14 the tucson did! They were quite amazed!.

Its very strange how the tucsons down under get much better mileage... do the ones down there have the automatic geat box too?

Someone parked a tucson right next to mine at teh supermarket the other day so I waited till he came out. He had 10000km on the clock and said his now does about 12-13l regardless of motorway driving or city driving. He said at the start he was filling up the tank all the time though but he never remembered it being as bad as what I get!.

Judging by what everyone else is reporting I still seem to be guzzling the most! Even the dealer thought it was high, despite feeding me the usual crap that you cant go by what the brochure says as its ideal conditions they measure it on. My answer was that the santa fe brochure said 9.8 mixed and for that I got 500-600km. The tucson said 10l/100km mixed and for that I get 270-310km and asked him to do the maths. But he is quite ok about it and at least tries to contact hyundai, who first said they were investigating the problem, and a month later came back saying I had not enough km on the clock to tell!

I was really pissed off before, now Im just praying if enough of us keep pushing them they might actually do something...

 

Hi Neil,


In Australia we only have the V6 AWD with the auto box. It probably helps all those people who aren't good at making decisions :thumbsup:

Hope that your TucTuc gets better and better. If mine was doing less than 14l/100kms I would be right up Hyundai regardless.

Good luck with yours.

 

Hi

With nearly a 1000km on my 2.7 Tucson Elite (Australian spec auto), I am averaging 12.9 according to the trip computer. This has been primarily a combination of short commuting trips (8km) and longer ones (26km). Also several trips towing a light trailer short distances while helping to move a friend. There has been no trip over 40km so far. I should add that I traded the OE Bridgestone Turanzas as soon as I got it. I fitted Pirelli Scorpion STR's which are a SUV specific tyre. I mention this because it may have had some effect on the FC.

I'm pleasantly supprised because I was expecting much worse. Generally for most of the time I am following Handbook recomendations re the run in period. Speed under 88kph, not reving over 4000rpm etc. I have however had some short 100kph runs. I am used to driving large 4wd autos and I have always been soft on the throttle which allows the auto to change into top gear quicker without reving the **** out of the motor. Who cares who goes past me. Definitly helps.

I have seen some articles which talk about 17lt/100km in city driving. This would have to be in seriously slow commuting in a large city. I'm sure I can get it down to around the high 9s low 10s on a long trip when it has been run in. Hyundai would have been better to have put a longer stroke motor in this thing. I'm not complaining at the moment because I bought it in the knowledge that fuel consumption was questionable.

 

Hi Crowie. This is off topic but I just love how in any pub in Canberra on any night of the year Cold Chisels Ke San (not spelled too good!) will be played and people will boot scoot to it. Gotta love Canberra the biggest country town in Australia

Nah I really do like Canberra. Picturesque and all nice.

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Originally posted by TOOLBAR@Feb 18 2005, 04:51 PM
Hi Crowie. This is off topic but I just love how in any pub in Canberra on any night of the year Cold Chisels Ke San (not spelled too good!) will be played and people will boot scoot to it. Gotta love Canberra the biggest country town in Australia 

Nah I really do like Canberra. Picturesque and all nice.

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G'day Crowie

Your fuel consumption is pretty close to my mixed city/country (mostly city) as indicated in Post #16 above. I retained the Kumho Solus tyres that came with my base model Tucson and have no complaints about them. They certainly grip well as I found in last Saturday night's fairly heavy rain in North Canberra when I was demonstrating some cornering with four good sized adult males on board.

Off topic, nice to have another capitalino (or is it capitalian?) on the forum, also a "young senior" which is how I would describe myself. After choosing the Tucson on what I trust were pretty much practical grounds as a probable good size and design of car for my caravan towing and general driving, I was a bit surprised to find in some of the newspaper reviews that Hyundai aims the Tucson at the 29-45 year age group or some such. I've left that age group behind me by a few years.

 

sorry dont know conversions but my v6 2.7 4wd tucson mileage has increased from 15.9 mpg at 1000 miles to 21.5 mpg ar 2000 miles . I hope this has helped :clap:

 

With the aircon going 90% of the time, mixed driving computer hovered around 13.5 up to 14 sometimes in the cars first 1000k's. This included some very soft sand work. Premium unleaded seems to make quite a big difference to the economy and torque, with a perceived decrease in the trip computers reading of about 1lt/100km over standard unleaded (92 RON I think) It seems like the RON of the fuel is a big issue. The engine probably uses a 'closed loop' knock sensor timing control. The computer constantly increases ignition advance until the knock sensor senses detonation 'pinging - but before you can actually hear it' and retards it a little, then does it again and again very quickly. This keeps the advance as high as possible with the fuel quality. Retarding the timing has a huge effect on power and economy. Thats my theory anyway - and I'm going to keep using premium from now on (98 RON). I also noticed the rear of the exhaust appears to have quite a restriction where it passes under the diff. It is flattened out for ground clearance. I'm not sure of the cross-section area at its smallest but visually it looks like a restriction to me. Could open up a few more kW and better economy, but not sure what affect that would have on warranty etc.

 

Sounds exactly the same as what I am finding Lucifer.

I had also thought that the exhaust was a bit compromised under the rear diff/axl area with the squashed flat section. Would certainly make some herb difference if it wasn't there.

As for the premium I think I mentioned it before but if you stick to the BP Ultimate it also has detergeant properties which keep your internals clean.

And we all like our internals clean....don't we :blush:

 

Fuel consumption of the Tucson seems to have become an obsession. Those with a trip computer can reset it when you fill up. When you drive out of the Servo after filling the tank, the fuel consumption readout will probably read 16/18ltrs per 100 km for the first 100 metres. Thats because its averaging your acceleration out of the servo and onto the road. Keep watching, and it goes down.

The BMW X3 which is a similar size to the Tucson has 2.5ltr in line 6cyl and averages 11L/100km with a 5 speed auto, (extra gear to the Tucson) and produces more power. There is not a lot in it. If you want to own a smallish SUV and save on a bit of fuel you can go and buy an X3 for AUD$67.000. Oh yes, add a sunroof AUD$3300. The Tucson Elite has just about everything the X3 has and a few things it hasn't as standard.

Its no use making anything useful of the average fuel consumption until you have at least done a few thousand k's. If you had done the research before buying you would know that higher fuel consumption is normal for them. I've said in other places that I'm averaging just on 13ltr/100km after 1500km of city and country driving. I'm . Just enjoy the vehicle and it's many advantages.

 

I agree Crowie. I suppose a lot of people on the forum, myself included, are enjoying our first SUV and I'm sure we purchased our Tucsons for a great variety of reasons, probably none of them much to do with fuel economy. It's time to think again of all those excellent reasons when our hip pocket feels a little bruised after filling up. The big test for me will be towing our pop-up when next we take to the road on holidays. It used to cut our Toyota Avalon distance per tankful from around 550 to about 350 km.

 

Originally posted by spikeengelbrecht@Jan 4 2005, 04:40 PM
I'm in the process of buying the 2.0l version (available in South Africa) but have my doubts when I read comments in the forum re fuel consumption. Does the 2.0l have a similar or worse problem than the 6cylinder?

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Howzit Boet

Old SA in Canada and have just bought a 2.0 I 5 speed,have a long story to tell
about the car but so far ( to early to tell ).Around town I get +/- 15 km/l and open
road +/- 11.5 km/l.


Rusty

 

Originally posted by PhineasP@Feb 23 2005, 08:39 PM
I agree Crowie. I suppose a lot of people on the forum, myself included, are enjoying our first SUV and I'm sure we purchased our Tucsons for a great variety of reasons, probably none of them much to do with fuel economy. It's time to think again of all those excellent reasons when our hip pocket feels a little bruised after filling up. The big test for me will be towing our pop-up when next we take to the road on holidays. It used to cut our Toyota Avalon distance per tankful from around 550 to about 350 km.

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hi,
just want to add in general im happy with my tucson too (apart from today when the alarm would not close the front door! something must have froze!). I was only pissed off with the fuel consumption as Hyundai gave it almost the same figures as my old Santa Fe 9.8 vs 10 for mixed driving, so when I got about 50% less km/full tank I was shocked. I know the quoted figures by Hyundai are in ideal conditions but 18.5l or 275km/tank is a bit too way off. (pocket very bruised as its about 65 euros a refil!) You guys down under seem to get much more what I would have expected... ie around the 12-13 mark. Ive almost 2000km on mine now, and its dropped from 19.1 at the start to 18.1 ish. At least its going down though!
One theory could be that its summer and warm where you are, were here its between -10 and +5 deg. Maybe that effects it some how.

good luck towing the pop-up(?), im sure the tucosn will take it in its stride.

cheers
Neil :thumbsup:

 

Hi there just an update, I have 8,000km on my clock and I am averaging around 500km/tank of petrol. You are right, it is warm here, summer actually, around 30deg celcius everyday. I would imagine this does make a difference. The highest my FC has been was 14L/100km when brand new, then I was getting 450km/tank for ages but I have just noticed since clocking 7,000km on the clock it has dropped some more (500km/tank) and the engine has loosened up nicely. So hang in there!!

 

Originally posted by neil oconnor@Feb 14 2005, 03:47 AM

I have 1700km on my V6 and Im still reading 18.1-18.5 litres /100km on the onboard computer

Onboard computer? My Hyundai doesn't have an onboard computer, just a trip meter. Another cost-cutting thing in addition to the lack of side-impact airbags on Canadian models? :crying:

 

The base model in sweden does not have the computer either, or the tinted windows, or the cladding on the outside over the wheel arches and doors. but sport model does. All models here come with 6 airbags. :clap:

to be honest though, the on board computer is not worth having.... its just depressing to see the thirsty tuctuc guzzle petrol. So I only have the trip computer showing on mine these days!

 

Hello I have a Top of the line V6 4x4 Tucson that was sold in Canada. I have had it for a month now. I really like the vehicle but I am really suprised that such a small SUV with such a small motor uses so much fuel. On a recent trip of 983 km it used 12.1L/100km. The brochure and transport Canada has this vehicle listed as 8.8L/100km Highway and 11.8L/100km City. As you can see fuel consumption highway driving at the speed limit of 100 km/hr is very high.

If everyone is getting such poor fuel mileage, possibly we should begin a class action law suit to get compensation. It is the responsibility of Hyundai to publish reasonable fuel consumption figures.

I probably would still have purchase my Tucson as it was $7000 less than a Honda, Ford, or Toyota and because of the company's reputation for quality and features. A $7000.00 savings will buy about 8000L of fuel.