2015-03-24 258 6.55 $2.35 39.39 "Top-off from purchase. IN>STL trip home - mid 70s MPH for most of trip, little hypermiling (dad was following in TL)... thing is screaming >3k RPM (questioning things when I saw MPG!) Used Torque App but little hypermiling."
2015-04-02 423 9.78 $2.19 43.25 "Used Torque ~80% of time through 236 mi. Installed UltraGauge which showed 44MPG for second half. Now I have to re-learn how to drive a car for FE with 60% less power and 30% less weight"
2015-04-12 467 10.21 $2.3 45.74 "New engine air filter. Still learning the car. Very little AC, rainy season. UG: 49.6MPG on 468.9 mi, Tweaked correction > 1.081 for next tank."
2015-04-27 510 10.21 $2.3 49.95 "Tires from 32 to 44 at end of prev tank. Disconnected air box flex tube upstream of filter. UG: 47.8 MPG @ 62.5 MPH. Did not readjust calibration"
2015-05-05 423 9.24 $2.46 45.78 "UG showed 44.7mpg, changed cal to 1.06. Battery died at least once."
2015-05-14 304 6.73 $2.44 45.17 "51R battery conversion @ 200mi (Costco does not sell 26R/ Group 21 in my area), died a couple times. EOC greatly reduced especially since quite rainy. Sis and Dad borrowed car at least once each. UG 46.3 no change to cal."
2015-05-29 451 8.96 $2.5 50.33 "left tires at 41-42psi. Started pulling mower on platform once per week (and still getting 50+ mpg trips), very few daycare runs this tank. UG @ 48.4mpg, 63.4 mph avg which can't be correct.
Edit: I originally suspected this was a short fill and came to believe it at subsequent fill-up. adding 1/2 ga to this tank would drop mpg to 47.7"
2015-06-16 506 9.89 $2.72 51.16 "Summer work hours (4x10s) + no daycare pickup/dropoff, so different route and no AC. Pretty hot, little rain. UG 56.3 MPG 81mph (obviously incorrect). Changed distance cal 510.17 to 509.8 mi (=.999). Changed 9.069 Ga to 9.500 Ga (=1.110 mpg corr). Now that I look at notes, I think previous tank was short fill - did not correct any numbers (but shifting 1/2 gallon makes this tank look about right at 53.9mpg)"
2015-07-07 507 9.8 $2.76 51.73 "AC maybe once - almost all work trips. Much rain."
2015-07-21 456 9.17 $2.64 49.73 "was running mid 50s avg; hot but no AC, then started using car as weekend family car"
2015-08-04 513 9.84 $2.43 52.13 "maybe 90% commuting. 2 long family trips with ac took UG avg from 55 to 51. Nasty afternoon traffic last 10 days."
2015-08-19 526 10.06 $2.39 52.29 "Couple kid pickups with AC; no family trips; couple errands; some bad traffic"
2015-09-02 488 9.391 $2.56 51.96 "pretty much same - mostly commuting, 3 or 4 kid pickups with ac; couple bad traffic days."
2015-09-16 505 9.99 $2.23 50.55 "Two misc. carpools with AC & no EOC. Two short trailer trips, Two platform trips w/ mower ~100mi total - seems to not affect MPG."
2015-09-30 523 9.79 $1.91 53.42 "Great weather & opportunities. Only one rain, warm. Maybe 2 AC partials. Was targeting 56MPG avg with 60MPG trips. After 3 days had a drop of over 10% FE; actually thought something was broken. Came back on Tuesday and had 3 great segments to finish tank. Needed to tighten nut behind the wheel. Last three tanks MPG correction at 11% yielding average error of -0.4%"
2015-10-30 479.8 10.36 $2.26 46.31 "two dealer tows with approximately 2x5.1=10.2 free miles (two failed ECMs). Kill switch installation plus some odometer testing. Corrected trip distance by backing out 10.2 miles."
2015-11-13 513 9.985 $2.15 51.38 "First full tank on kill switch with a bit of testing and trying new strategies (90-day at 51.9 if previous tank dropped)"
2015-11-27 522 10.06 $1.95 51.89 ""
2015-12-14 511 10.128 50.45 "3 days training in non-optimized route. Couple bad traffic days."
2015-12-27 457 9.414 $1.98 48.54 "Ridiculous rain. Lights almost 100% of commuting. Implemented overnight charging after battery died once or twice. I've compromised and raised my minimum bumpstart speed on highway."
2016-01-08 453 9.354 $1.7 48.43 "still laid off on low speed bumpstarting."
2016-01-22 446 9.502 $1.56 46.94 "Cold, some snow, much lights."
2016-02-03 454 8.695 $1.54 52.21 "Relatively warm & dry. Seemed to have more beneficial tailwind than normal."
2016-02-14 438 9.435 $1.4 46.42 "cal changed from 1.110 to 1.082"
2016-03-01 473 10.06 $1.51 47.02 "Emissions inspection failed - had to drive it hard without EOC ~15 miles for Catalyst to pass internal check in OBD2 diagnostics. Swapped from Scanguage to Torque app to monitor diagnostics. Failed inspection since our state allows only 1 ""incomplete"" for my 2008; I had two: ""Evaporative System"" and ""Catalyst""."
2016-03-10 482 9.66 $1.569 49.9 "abnormaly warm and dry weather for March. Less headlights as well."
2016-03-25 512 9.644 $1.8 53.09 ""
2016-04-10 436 8.579 $1.9 50.82 "I think this was a deep fill since it showed such error on gauge (~5% by recent MPG error)"
2016-04-25 546 9.565 $1.78 57.08 "Error about 1 point off from normal going the other way as expected since tank started more full than the refill at the end. Unfortunately this best and longest tank gets a big fat asterisk. I did put down a 55.6 on the UG, however (which is normally conservative by 1%). I did not do any adjustments on the numbers."
2016-05-10 553 9.827 $1.96 56.27 "UG error back to normal; no asterisk required."
2016-06-09 607.3 10.97 55.36 "Tested fuel capacity. Note to others keep more than 1 gallon in your portable tank! It was not enough to submerge fuel sump in order to purge air. Fuel consumption and distance corrected based on the two partial fills + fuel consumed traveling to refill station on three cylinders. So, when the engine died I had gone 607.3 miles on 10.97 gallons."
2016-07-18 585 10.031 $2.26 58.32 "good tank. Only 1 or 2 errands. May have hit 60mpg to and from work every time"
2016-08-03 550 9.968 $2.1 55.18 "2 AC trips with the wife & kids ~80 mi. pulled trailer once. Bit of rain."
2016-08-18 554 9.88 $1.85 56.07 "1 big rain, 2 bike trips, 2 mower trips, 1 short family trip"
2016-09-02 542 9.658 $1.99 56.12 "tons of short trips - updating rental unit. Bettery got low on me a couple times; started playing with headlights off at stops and started charging at least twice/week."
2016-09-27 491 9.6 $1.93 51.15 "more trips to apt. pulled trailer a few times. Back to normal schedule at end of tank."
2016-10-09 512 9.407 $1.94 54.43 "Couple cold mornings (upper 40s, low 50s), lights almost every leg now, but more typical driving schemes"
2016-10-26 541 10.548 $2.08 51.29 ""
2016-11-11 512 9.728 $2.17 52.63 ""
2016-11-28 483 9.41 $1.88 51.33 "colder yet. changed display, started tracking intake and engine temps."
2016-12-12 436 8.901 $1.9 48.98 "very cold. Started parking outside. Battery seems unhappy."
2016-12-22 444 10.344 $1.9 42.92 "cold as hell. Last tank parking outside. Had one tire low (~28psi) at end of tank. Intake temp consistantly between 5 and 8 degrees above ambient. Let the car warm up a bit before doing EOC in morning. Battery definitely pissed."
2017-04-27 467.8 8.943 $2.159 52.31 "Finally back on road after clutch pressure plate failure. Swapped battery. Pulling mower or bike about 33% of trips which loses maybe 10% each trip, so I might be up a couple MPG without. Belly pan and engine splash shield not yet reinstalled."
2017-05-10 472 9.022 $2.32 52.32 "Couple trips with failed Crankshaft Position Sensor. Couple with trailer, bike, and platform."
2017-05-31 559 9.732 $2.12 57.44 "Installed alternator bypass at beginning and used it about 1/3 of the time. Installed AGM battery at end."
2017-06-16 556 9.464 $2.2 58.75 "Belly pan reinstalled early in tank. (1) ~40 mile golf trip with friends and AC. Nice to know it still works. Great weather - good and hot."
2017-07-09 532 9.721 $2.2 54.73 "UG error 5 pt delta (UG showed 57.3); either deep fill or previous fill was shallow. TBD."
2017-07-18 515 9.864 $1.88 52.21 "was holding a 60 MPG avg, then ~140mi of trips to get kids and haul friends + bikes."
2017-08-08 558 9.136 $2.08 61.08 "great conditions; few chores and rain. Need to start adjusting for battery charging. UG error back within 1% with (my normal) gas pump"
2017-08-23 560 9.406 $2.3 59.54 "first tank capturing full kwh battery charging (2.9kwh = $0.38). Still using 6A charger. Used 15A charger once and forgot to kill it before bed; that night used 0.5kwh which is approx double. (2.9kwh)/(32.78kwh/ga e10) = .09ga > 59.0 mpge (I think)"
2017-09-12 581 10.121 $2.26 57.41 "much colder. Lights in morning (with alternator charging).
2.3kWH charging > 57.0 MPGe"
2017-10-02 597 9.755 $2.38 61.2 "about as optimized as its going to get. 2.4kwh charging > 60.7 MPGe."
2017-10-17 568 9.778 $2.38 58.09 "much colder. Lights on in morning with alternator. A couple side trips with passengers."
2017-11-01 507 9.56 $2.24 53.03 ""
2017-11-18 490 9.044 $2.23 54.18 ""
2017-12-08 443 9.689 45.72 "lost previous receipt. some non-commuter driving with family and friends"
2017-12-20 485 9.836 $2.4 49.31 ""
2018-01-09 413 9.062 $2.12 45.57 "super freaking cold"
2018-01-22 440 9.304 $2.16 47.29 ""
2018-02-07 499 10.134 $2.36 49.24 ""