[wmjinman]

Just did it!! An all-time high for mpg (62.68) AND an all-time high for distance traveled on a tank (701.7). It started out with a 65 mile drive on pretty flat highway to another town & then back on the warmest day we've seen so far this year. The ScanGauge kept creeping up until it was showing 64+ mpg. This gave me incentive to "pull out all the stops" and go nuts in my hypermiling.

The next few trips weren't quite as good, but the ScanGuage kept giving me readings of 63+ and then 62+. At one recent fill-up, I put 11.8 gallons in it, so I knew I could use that much before running dry. Kept checking the "gallons used" on the ScanGauge vs. miles on the actual odometer. When I hit 10 gallons used at 630 miles on the trip odometer, I knew something special might happen this tank.

So I kept at it, trying to maximize everything I could, and fortunately, not too many short trips on this tank either, and then, after driving about 7 extra miles (3.5 out - 3.5 back) "just to do it", I had rolled-over the 700 mile mark as I was returning to the gas station. Standing on "pins & needles" during the 20+ minute ordeal that's filling up my car (I take it to where it will not physically take any more and the fuel is visibly standing in the fill neck & won't go down any more), I was working up to the 11.2 gallons the ScanGuage said I used. And pretty darn close - 11.195!!!

So there we have it = the White Gnat is officially in the "700 club". LOL!