New intercooler hose = better mpg?

MissMoppet · 1st August 2017, 22:19

I recently fitted one of Jules' excellent hoses - it hadn't split but as I've done 100K thought I'd better. I had expected the old hose to be claggy but didn't think the EGR inlet would be really gunged with oily deposits. Anyway replaced and did a 400 mile run and found I was definitely getting 2mpg better. So thinking about it now I tend to believe the improvement was not so much changing the hose as cleaning the inlet - something I'd never thought of before and doubt if anyone has before it left Rovers. Agree?

(Big Russ re-mapped it awhile ago).

COLVERT · 2nd August 2017, 20:56

No, not really.---------------

1st August 2017, 22:19	#1
MissMoppet Posted a thing or two R 75 Tourer diesel Conny 2002, V6 Conny saloon petrol 2003 Join Date: Mar 2013 Location: Taunton Posts: 1,129 Thanks: 212 Thanked 406 Times in 223 Posts	New intercooler hose = better mpg? I recently fitted one of Jules' excellent hoses - it hadn't split but as I've done 100K thought I'd better. I had expected the old hose to be claggy but didn't think the EGR inlet would be really gunged with oily deposits. Anyway replaced and did a 400 mile run and found I was definitely getting 2mpg better. So thinking about it now I tend to believe the improvement was not so much changing the hose as cleaning the inlet - something I'd never thought of before and doubt if anyone has before it left Rovers. Agree? (Big Russ re-mapped it awhile ago). __________________ Rover 75 Tourer Conny 2002 remapped 160 auto, R75 V6 2.5L auto Connoisseur 2003

2nd August 2017, 20:56	#2
COLVERT This is my second home R75 Saloon. Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: France/or Devon. Posts: 14,003 Thanks: 3,851 Thanked 2,167 Times in 1,816 Posts	No, not really.---------------