Subaru's claims of tank capacity are crap. They may be that volume but will not draw it. The pig is 60lt but splutters at 53.7lt ( that's all the way to the top of the filler neck to ).

Have done a best of 8.6lt per 100km and once seen 500 before the fuel light but only once. Normal country trip about 10 per 100.

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Fuel light does not = empty

Manufacturers set them to come on with at least 50km of normal driving left (usually at least 5L still in the tank). Am I the only one drive with the trip meter showing 0 km to empty?

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I find i can still get at least another 100km before it will conk out.

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I dont have that function on my post vintage 1999 model.

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im lucky to get 300km per tank from my MY07 wid vf34 and i thought that was pretty normal, maybe not?????

Sorry I meant to come back and edit my post........(don't post when half asleep & don't try to do maths hungover either )

60litres? I never run my car down past the last 1/4 on the gauge.

I get 450 km per tank in the city (well down to 1/4 on the gauge anyway), it usually takes 40-45 litres to fill from that point....doing my usual home -work - home weekday thing.
That gives me 8.8 - 10 l/100 yes?

I get 550km down to the same level on country runs which gives me roughly 7.6 L/100.....If I'm NOT booting it!

If I am booting it well....ummm..... 250km down to the last 1/4 mark = 16 L/100.

I've tuned my AFR's to be 15.4 -15.7 in cruise off boost, that has given me maybe another 30 km's per tank over the stock 14.0 - 14.7 AFR cruise.

Note: I've never run my car down to the fuel light.

P.s Why does it ALWAYS rain when I'm on holidays???

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hahah nice one joe

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never realised you can do that with your AFR's 30km's is a big difference for something so small.

an yer it always rains on holidays.... apart from the UK when i was growing up it seemed to only rain on sundays? hahah

back to topic.....

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Thanks for all the input.. I'll clarify a few things:

Around town, I will get around 330kms before the fuel light comes on, I usually fill up around that point in time.

Out on the open road.. I get a massive gain of about 20-30kms further before the fuel light comes on... so around 350-360kms before the light comes on. Please note the copious amounts of sarcasm there..

I would like to see at least 450kms out of it before the fuel light comes on.. something I don't think is all that unrealistic.

I will check the sensors and see if they are wrecked or not..

It would be nice to get it down to 10L per 100 on the open road, 14L around town is something I'm comfortable with.

- paul

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2003 Subaru Forester XT

If I remember correctly subaru's "official" fuel consumption, as displayed on the front windscreen (legal requirement on all brand new vehicles) of the sg forester xt was 15l/100km, this is usually the combined figure, averaged between city and freeway driving.

this figure alone put me off the idea of buying the missus one back in '04.

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