Hi guys,

I have recently bought a 95 TS Exec V6 Auto sedan to drive to and from work. Not a bad car, only done 140k and is in pretty good condition. Except.....

I am a little concerned about the fuel consumption. Off 50L, i'm lucky to get 350k's in light city traffic. This is on ULP or PULP, it doesn't make any difference. I've changed all the fluids (gearbox, engine, radiator), plugs, filters, manifold cleaner, upper engine clean etc without any improvement. The car otherwise runs fine.

Is this common for this model Magna??

What else could it be??

I have a 11/95 Verada and fuel consumption around the city is about the same as you are experiencing, perhaps marginally better. I would be keen to understand what others get on the open road with mine returning just 30mpg cruising at 100-110km/h.

14.2L/100Km is a bit thrsty. My old man has a 95 Verada wagon and gets around 12L/100Km in town.

I was getting back fuel consumption from my 93 TR V6 5 Speed so i decided to change to pulp and get the timing adjusted and now i get around 450 ks per tank. I now am not too weary since on a trip over xmas i got almost 600k's from one tank so really, i guess its just a pig in city traffic.. with no reason to be :nuts: i believe auto's use a little more fuel but not that much.. perhaps your running rich?? even marginally will see drastic results from a whole tank.. take it for a highway run and see how much 100k's uses? just my 2c

I was getting back fuel consumption from my 93 TR V6 5 Speed so i decided to change to pulp and get the timing adjusted and now i get around 450 ks per tank. I now am not too weary since on a trip over xmas i got almost 600k's from one tank so really, i guess its just a pig in city traffic.. with no reason to be :nuts: i believe auto's use a little more fuel but not that much.. perhaps your running rich?? even marginally will see drastic results from a whole tank.. take it for a highway run and see how much 100k's uses? just my 2c


The Tr/Ts fuel gauges are horrendously inaccurate.
the gauge will read empty when you have fair bit left.
Remember they are a 64 litre tank.
Unfortunately they were fairly heavy on fuel around town, mine use to get around 400km per tank. On highway they lot better (like most big cars)

The Tr/Ts fuel gauges are horrendously inaccurate.
the gauge will read empty when you have fair bit left.
Remember they are a 64 litre tank.
Unfortunately they were fairly heavy on fuel around town, mine use to get around 400km per tank. On highway they lot better (like most big cars)

You must be driving a magical TS then cause my old one I could never get more than 45L-48L in the tank. This was driving it to extremely empty ie: spluttering to the fuel station. No matter if I was highway driving or city driving, the most I ever got out of 1 tank was something like 400k's... normal was about 350k's. It's gone now and I don't really care ;)

you should consider yaselfs lucky, i got the slowest, thirstiest magna ever built, i got the TR carby 4cyl ... IN AUTO!! :cry: , and lucky to get 400kms out of a 60L tank. Basically around 14L/100kms

I had a TS V6 manual and used to have it return 500km per tank normally.

I now have a TH V6 (3L) and will get 500km per tank (could get more if I wanted to run the risk of a sputtering stop). It now has nearly 200,000km on it too, though I am not in stop/start traffic for all of that.

Im changing my muffler, plugs, fuel filter, and O2 sensor as of 40L i have only gotten 300km, and thats with thrashing it and city traffic, KR Verada Ato V6 200,000km

umm i wouldnt be happy with any of that; i get 450km's of mostly suburbs driving bit of peak hour in brissy; my sister's ks verada in countryish conditions gets 520km's and none of thats highway. My car's lost a little compression; rings are gone, i haven't bothered checking my ignition timing either.

the first things you should do is perform such tests; rather than go out and replace ****.

peace out;
aj