Thursday, May 14th. I received an emergency call just before 6:00am. Got up immediately to pack-up and had to leave for Kelantan by 7:00am.
Unfortunately just after passing through Sungai Besi toll plaza there was a massive traffic jam on E2 and MRR2 all the way till Hulu Klang. It took me almost 3 hours to arrive at Gombak toll plaza from my home in SKV - lost two solid hours already. Had to 'eat' the remaining 380km in four hours. Quite a difficult task to drive on non-expressways with heavy traffic. The GPS navigator registered ETA 3:15pm! I must drive to the extreme to reduce the journey time by at least 1hr 15minutes in order to arrive at the final destination before 2:00pm.
I was expecting it could be done with the 308THP in less than four hours though! Nevetheless I had to set the speed limiter to 190kph 'only'. I got spirited. I like the first 40km stretch on E8 Karak Expressway where I could push the car to the extreme limits before exiting onto Federal Road #8 towards Bentong.
By the time I left E8 the GPS registered ETA 2:50pm. Then at KLipis the ETA reduced 2:35pm... and kept dropping as I sped of but just after that I had to stop [by the order of traffic police] for 10minutes or so to give way to some kind of bicycle racing.
Then I kept on 'tekan'ing the accelerator pedal all the way. By the time I arrived GMusang the ETA was reduced to 2:15pm and kept dropping as I burned 30~40% more fuel per 100km than usual. At KKrai junction the ETA reduced to 1:55pm. With 5-minutes reserve I could slow down to the speed limits... finally arrived at the destination @1:57pm safely but the EP6DT engine consumed almost 3/4 tank of fuel. Previous economy RETURN trip KL-Kelantan-KL consumption was less than one tank of 60liter gasoline covering more than 800km w/o refuelling along the entire journey.
BTW, three other cars which had left Klang Valley 1-hour earlier than me arrived between 45-90minutes later! I'd overtaken them around KLipis.
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Unfortunately just after passing through Sungai Besi toll plaza there was a massive traffic jam on E2 and MRR2 all the way till Hulu Klang. It took me almost 3 hours to arrive at Gombak toll plaza from my home in SKV - lost two solid hours already. Had to 'eat' the remaining 380km in four hours. Quite a difficult task to drive on non-expressways with heavy traffic. The GPS navigator registered ETA 3:15pm! I must drive to the extreme to reduce the journey time by at least 1hr 15minutes in order to arrive at the final destination before 2:00pm.
I was expecting it could be done with the 308THP in less than four hours though! Nevetheless I had to set the speed limiter to 190kph 'only'. I got spirited. I like the first 40km stretch on E8 Karak Expressway where I could push the car to the extreme limits before exiting onto Federal Road #8 towards Bentong.
By the time I left E8 the GPS registered ETA 2:50pm. Then at KLipis the ETA reduced 2:35pm... and kept dropping as I sped of but just after that I had to stop [by the order of traffic police] for 10minutes or so to give way to some kind of bicycle racing.
Then I kept on 'tekan'ing the accelerator pedal all the way. By the time I arrived GMusang the ETA was reduced to 2:15pm and kept dropping as I burned 30~40% more fuel per 100km than usual. At KKrai junction the ETA reduced to 1:55pm. With 5-minutes reserve I could slow down to the speed limits... finally arrived at the destination @1:57pm safely but the EP6DT engine consumed almost 3/4 tank of fuel. Previous economy RETURN trip KL-Kelantan-KL consumption was less than one tank of 60liter gasoline covering more than 800km w/o refuelling along the entire journey.BTW, three other cars which had left Klang Valley 1-hour earlier than me arrived between 45-90minutes later! I'd overtaken them around KLipis.
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Hope everything went well with the emergency call, Ahwan. But, you had a fanstastic drive to GMusang, what was your average speed through out the spin ?
The average speed for the entire 500+km journey hardly 80kph - it is here:
http://mypeugeot308.blogspot.com/2009/05/long-distance-fuel-consumptions-at.html
Top speed 189kph [deploying speed limiter to 190kph]. Mov avg only 77.6kph due to heavy traffic jam which took me almost THREE hours to drive the first 50km from my home to Gombak toll which normally takes just 35~45minutes.
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