My car runs perfectly fine but I’m getting 22mpg 70% highway 30% city. Awful. 215k, I have original injectors. Probably time to send them to greazzer when I get a chance, but can’t imagine worn nozzles would cause such terrible mpg. My compression is great, I tested it before when I did glow plugs out of curiosity. Doubt timing chain stretch is a thing since it’s had Mobil 1 synthetic oil changes since new (family owned since day 1 and maintained) at 5k intervals.

Any ideas? My tire pressure is set all even. It’s literally a waste of money in fuel. I don’t drive over 75 which is about 2700rpms.

I’m also calculating the fuel from about a little above half a tank to right before the reserve light comes on I fill it up to get back to where I was with $30. I calculate the miles travel by the gallons to refill to the previous spot my fuel gauge was at. Wonder if that skews my results by not adding a full tank?

Also I have minimal smoke if any. I’ve gotten as low as 18mpg doing the same traveling. It’s despicable.

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2008 Chevy 3500HD Duramax 340k
2004 Chevy 2500HD Duramax 220k

I am guessing that you would do better filling it all the way up. Check over three or four tanksful for a more accurate estimate of mileage. For example fill it up, punch the mileage to zero and drive three hundred miles. Fill it up and repeat. Calc mileage each time.

The part where you're trusting a VDO gauge and sender to actually have half a tank of fuel when they say they do is your main issue.

Fill it all the way up, run it down, fill it all the way up, then divide it out. Guessing from spots on a gauge will never work. I've tried it myself and either I'm getting 16mpg or 60mpg, it never works.

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You need to measure your fuel consumption more accurately before jumping to any conclusions

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I try the same, but run it down to a quarter tank and then fill with 5.25 gals(tank holds 21 so divide by 4). Then use your mileage when it drops back to a quarter tank. The fuel gauge is wonky and 'appears' to fall faster between the hash marks than when its close.

Depending on city/highway ratio I can get 550-600+ per tank or about 26-28. Not the 30+ touted by others and in the for sale listings, but hey for a 19+ year old car not bad.

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06 E320 CDI 127K Miles
87 300TD 231K Miles

99 E300 269K Miles-Sold

Mileage sounds about normal to me.

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..I also have a 427 Cobra replica with an aluminum chassis.

You get apparent great gas mileage on the first quarter tank because you have to burn enough gas for the level to drop below the float before it even registers. The float cannot move if it is buoyed against the top of the tank by gas (or diesel fuel).

Not bad at all. Gonna try the tips everyone mentioned and fill it up to the top and see.

Pretty awful for the 606 if it is the case. About right for the 617 maybe. My 603 got 28 highway.

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2008 Chevy 3500HD Duramax 340k
2004 Chevy 2500HD Duramax 220k

Yeah, I was thinking about the 617.

You cannot measure fuel economy accurately unless you start with a fill up, the drive til it is lowish, keeping track of your miles traveled, then fill it again and divide the mileage by the gallons traveled.

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..I also have a 427 Cobra replica with an aluminum chassis.

It's winter.

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2012 S350 BlueTEC 4Matic
2007 ML 320 CDI
2007 Leisure Travel Serenity
2006 Sprinter 432k
2005 E320 CDI
1998 SLK230 (teal)
1998 SLK230 (silver)
1996 E300D 99k, 30k on WVO
Previous:
1983 240D, on WVO
1982 300D, on WVO
1983 300CD, on WVO
1986 300SDL 237k, 25k on WVO (Deerslayer)
1991 350SDL 249k, 56k on WVO - Retired to a car spa in Phoenix
1983 380 SEC w/603 diesel, 8k on WVO
1996 E300D 351k, 177k on WVO

You really need several tankfuls accurately measured and from the same pump to draw any sort of conclusion. As it stands, you simply don’t have enough data. For what it’s worth, my 98 got 26.5 miles per gallon over the course of 12,000 miles… If I were just measuring using winter diesel, I would expect around 23 or 24.

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06 E320 CDI "Rutherford", Black on Tan, 175k mi, Stage 1 tune, tuned TCU
91 300D "Otis", Smoke Silver on Tan, 144k mi, wastegate conversion, ALDA delete

19 Honda CR-V EX 70k mi
Fourteen other MB's owned and sold
1961 Very Tolerant Wife

Winter diesel is a couple few mpg less. I get 27-29 MPG summer diesel and about 25 winter diesel with my 617.

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www.kiva.org It's not like there's anything wrong with feeling good, is there?

Cat might be clogged. Take the down pipe off and blow a shop vac (in leaf blower mode) to see how well it’s flowing.

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1995 e320
1994 e320
2006 s500 4matic
2004 Jeep wj overland
2001 Ducati 748
2004 Honda shadow aero

Mine got about 21-22 in city driving and 27-28 highway.

If you do all of the above, and still confirm very low mileage, check that your thermostat is not stuck open. I had one stick open on my CDI and mileage dropped to 17 confirmed over 400 miles. The temp never reached 60C. Diesels like to run hot (or at least NOT cold).

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05 MB E320CDI 209k Tectite Grey
99 Dodge 2500 Cummins 5sp 148k
62 Jeep CJ-6 120k