Anyone running a current XJ 3.0D?
Discussion
I have a 2006 model, to and from work, 16 miles round trip I get about 34/37 Mpg, but then again I'm quite heavy footed and the torque can be adictive.. on the motorway or longer journeys, set the cruise around 85/90 mph i easily get plus 40's. Just looked at the computer, I have done 438 miles, the needle is half way between half and a quarter empty, telling me I have 148 miles left to do, 26 mph average and 36.5 MPG. I'm off to wales tommorrow and I reckon I will crack 600 miles on this tank.. I have achieved 680 miles before.
craigjm said:
Is that mainly motorway driving?
What do you think in general? anything annoying you about the car?
Mixed but not a huge amount of town or motorway driving - my commute is about 8 miles so quite often it takes half the journey for the temp gauge to get up to normal.What do you think in general? anything annoying you about the car?
Probably about 90% of the time I use D because it's perfectly good for pootling around. Sport does get used as well within the overall mpg figures
The only thing I find annoying (but other owners apparently don't) is the glare that comes off the chrome on the centre console when the Sun's at the wrong angle. Pretty much everything else is a big step forward compared to the X350.
craigjm said:
How do you find the electric display instruments? what are they like in sunlight?
Sunlight, even when directly onto the display, has never been a problem - it's always visible. The only time I've noticed any issue is coming out of a dark tunnel (only the Hatfield Galleria for some reason) into bright sunlight, when there are a couple of seconds before the display readjusts itself.Where I do think Jag missed a trick is in changing the settings from mph to km/h - all it does is add a digital reading in the centre of the dial, whereas changing the numbers around the dial would work better imho
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