I had my diesel IG serviced today (10,000km - I plan to service every 10,000 or 12 months not 15,000) at Ignition Brisbane - awesome guys, if you need them give them a shout.
Anyway, I was given a petrol fieldmaster with bfg’s as a loan car so thought I’d give my feedback.
Firstly - it was black with safari windows (tinted). Had the sun in my eyes pretty much the whole trip to the office.
I had parked it in the sun for 3 hours before moving it. Official temp in Brisbane was 28c (82f) at the time. I got inside it and it was a dead set sweatbox. Started it up and it read the outside temp at 38c (100f). I touched the safari glass with the back of my fingers and just about burned the hair off them - ouch. So for me I’m glad I didn’t go dark, and glad I didn’t go safari. Not in this part of the world champ.
Petrol engine. Didn’t really get to give it any right boot as I was in traffic mostly, but you could tell it had more power than the diesel, only once you got the revs up though. Noticed the lack of torque. Also at the lights I had to check the engine hadn’t stopped (I’d turned the stop start off) a few times because of the lack of vibration that is always in the diesel. Also noticed at the lower end of the rev range it is quite sedate until you give it a bit - needs to be driven above 4000rpm to get any punch I thought.
But the big kicker for me was the huge lag at take off. Much worse than the diesel I thought. If there was ever a reason to buy a throttle controller the petrol grenadier is it I reckon.
Oh, and the average fuel consumption since fill was 17.6L/100km. Assume that was mostly around town driving. And I’m thinking 11.5 around town for the diesel was getting a bit thirsty.
Anyway, my two bobs worth.
Anyway, nice to finally drive the petrol.
