New Vitara on the forum

[dragosxc]

Hello everybody,
I am new to the forum and to the Suzuki comunity. I have recently bought a 1990 Suzuki Vitara 2 door, 5 speed manual transmision. It has the 1,6 l, 8v injection engine. I don,t know if I am beeing paranoic but it seems that the consumption on this "baby" is huge. I have managed to get 8,2 l/100km ouside the city on public main roads, but in the city traffic it needs arround 20 l/100 km!!! That scares me like hell. I mention that I ran only in 2WD mode.

Can you please suggest a solver to the problem?
And can please someone tell me what a normal consumption rate on this car should be!

Thank you very much!

PS: I do recognise that I haven't changed the oil in the engine , the oil filter and air filter from the former owner! Will do that soon

[ranger88den]

Compression test then if okay complete tune up and read attachement.

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[dragosxc]

Thanks a lot for the advice. I will do the compression test first and then I will see the results.
The link is very helpfull. I started reading last night and I will continue today.

[ranger88den]

Yeah, jtgh has put a lot of work into his website, helping members & vistors to this forum. Hope your compression is good and don't forget to check for any diagnostic codes stored in the ECM.

[Bex]

You should be getting 25mpg/gal city and about 32mpg/highway, if you're driving reasonably.....If my calculation is correct, you're now getting about 33mpg highway which is normal, but only 13mpg in the city....Will need a more experienced person on the site, than me, to figure out why your city mpg is way off (and hopefully my calculations are correct, eh? 4.45 litre to the gallon/100km = 62 miles....)

[dragosxc]

Yeah that's my problem also.
City traffic is a killer!