Daily gas mileage blab thread

[Ladogaboy]

Just averaged 25.6 mpg on my last fill up. My best yet, and pretty good considering this tank is an almost perfect mix of city/highway to match the EPA combined mpg estimates.

[endurance]

I had a high-low-high tank that did pretty good. The first 300 miles were showing 40mpg on the SGII, then I put the snow tires ahead of a winter storm, got 8" overnight and had a miserable commute that took 1:25 vs. the usual 40-45 minutes. Worked hard the rest of the tank and today filled it up. 39.3mpg for the tank. Definitely solid performance given the dip and the tires. I'm dreading the coming winter and watching my mpg sink into the 36-38 range again, but such is the cycle of life.

[Fat Charlie]

AAARGH!

The wife's FSP had a catastrophic problem and spent a few weeks in the shop. I was in a rental and she was in my car, and she doesn't keep track of mileage. I got the Bobsled back last Monday- she had put 1530 miles on it and the car's gauge read 24.0. I put another 140 moles on the remaining tank, bringing the gauge up to 24.6. I was pretty pleased with that increase.

Now this morning I filled up again. The car read 30.3, not bad considering that I lose a lot of EOC now that it's getting dark early (no kill switch yet, and turning the key kills my lights- bad in traffic). The pump didn't print my receipt, so I wrote numbers on a scrap of paper, reset the numbers and continued on to work. As soon as work settled down I went to update my fuel log and found that I hadn't written down the miles on the tank. No data.

[NeilBlanchard]

I put in the 300th tank of gasoline in my 2005 Scion xA on Sunday (since buying it new almost 6 years ago). It was a tank over 500 miles, and the first tank over 500 miles was back in February, so for at least 10 months this year, I have driven farther than 500 miles on a tank.

I think the warmer weather is directly correlated with higher FE. Daytime highs are still in the mid 60's (F) around here. The ground is not frozen, yet...

[FXSTi]

Originally Posted by NeilBlanchard

I put in the 300th tank of gasoline in my 2005 Scion xA since buying it new on Sunday. It was a tank over 500 miles, and the first tank over 500 miles was back in February, so for at least 10 months this year, I have driven farther than 500 miles on a tank.

I think the warmer weather is directly correlated with higher FE. Daytime highs are still in the mid 60's (F) around here. The ground is not frozen, yet...

Wow, that is a lot of fill ups since Sunday.

Kirk

[SentraSE-R]

I'm on track for my second metric kilotank in my xB. I got my first on February 6 - 1033 km (642.1 miles) on 10.563 gal, for a 60.8 mpg average.

I traveled 560 miles on the current tank before the low fuel light came on today. It usually takes 9.5 gallons to fill when the low fuel light goes on. I drove my wife to her college today, so the xB is at 600 miles on the current tank. Another 21 miles to 1000 km should be no problem. It's 16 miles to Costco, where I'll go shopping, and fill the tank.

[NeilBlanchard]

Wow, that is very good -- a little better than my best in an xA.

I clarified my writing -- thanks for pointing out the problem. I have *all* the fill up records, by the way.

[JethroBodine]

Just posted my first sub-50mpg tank for this winter. Got stuck trying to leave my driveway after getting a foot of snow. Snow on unfrozen ground = VERY slippery.

[Fr3AkAzOiD]

Looks like I may catch up to you over the winter Jethro.

Just closed out a 54 mpg tank.
Increased my year average but droped my 90 day percent over epa by 1%.

[payne171]

I got 64 mpg on my last fill-up. Of course, my new (for me, I guess) 2000 Insight makes it feel like I'm cheating. It looks like I am headed for a similar tank this time around, as my skill at hypermiling is improving at about the same rate as the cold weather is hurting it. The grill block/hot air intake has helped a lot. If I could get one nice weather day off I could build the undertray I want to work on, then mirror delete and I should REALLY see some numbers.