QUOTE(neosaint99 @ Jan 18 2014, 11:20 PM)
1. 11.4km/L is good on a 1.3 (underpowered) manual in the city. I would love to know how you used to get 14km/L. That is really good for the 1.3. the 1.5 magma iswaras can do that with no problem. But the 1.3 is severely underpowered thus making good consumption hard to achieve.
2. On a totally dry tank, you should be able to squeeze in like 46L++. The tank may be 45. But you got your filling port and piping etc. That more than a liter right there.
Notes:
Car still running after you swith off your key means your engine is self combusting the fuel. That could happen under 4 scenarios.
1. Your compression ratio is too high (not possible)
2. Your engine is too hot (is your cooling system working?)
3. You got contaminated fuel in your tank (think kerosene etc) - most likely
4. Your spark plugs are so fouled and carbonized that they have become glow plugs of sorts providing a combustion source even when the spark has been cut off. (when did you last change your sparkplugs? are you losing engine oil?)
Petrol engines use spark plugs to combust each stroke as the compression ratio does not allow the fuel-air mixture to reach self combustion conditions (diesel engines do this...they do not have spark plugs)
The 1.3 manual is a carburatted engine. All carburatted engines have a little reservoir of fuel in the carburettor. So if your engine keeps combusting on each stroke even when the key is turned off (no more spark plugs, fuel cut-off solenoid is closed) the engine will keep running and sucking in fuel from this tiny reservoir until it is dry.
They shop may have said its the auto choke. I have heard of this before. But usually you have to change the bimetallic strips if the autochoke goes bust.
Have the engine advance checked. It usually doesnt run out but having it checked out every 50,000km is a good practice. If this is out, your consumption will be quite significantly affected.
Wow thanks for the thorough and detailed info!
It was the good old days when the car age was below 3 years old, then after it entered 3-4 years the consumption has increased.
The problem has been solved for now (finger crossed), after the auto choke service and tuning, the FC has slowly improved and maintain at 10~12km/L.
- the cooling system works perfectly.
- I checked with the SC taukeh. They said the fuel in some of the petrol stations here in Kangar is contaminated with kerosene, but since I never use those stations' fuel, he was clueless also what led to the problem, so he sorted to tuning the auto choke.
- spark plugs were changed on June, another 3000km to go for next change (I was told to change spark plugs every 10,000 km, is that correct?). Losing engine oil, u mean leaking? There's no leaking so far.
Yeah I get a second opinion from the other shop too about the auto choke issue. But the boss also say if the tuning can solve the problem, then there's nothing much to be worry about, unless the problem persists, which means more repairs and more $$$. I've been wanting to have an advanced checking on the engine but it's hard to find a SC providing this service (and reliable) since I'm now in a very small town.