Daily gas mileage blab thread

[Weather Spotter]

Had to run into the town I work in during my off hours so I was able to hyper mile without time constraints, My round trip was 76.8 MPG!

The trip there with tail winds was 80.3, by far my best trip yet!!!!

[redpoint5]

2 days ago around 3am, I stopped at an Arco I have never visited before. The attendant was nowhere to be seen and took a couple minutes to wander outside to my car. I said "fill regular, cash, please".

The guy stood there for a moment, and then asked if I wanted it filled with regular. "Yes, with cash". "Cash inside", he said.

I was a little annoyed because it seemed he was messing with me, but I couldn't tell for sure. Waiting inside, both the cashier and attendant did nothing for about a minute, and then the cashier asked, "you want it filled?" Both the attendant and cashier were talking on their radios in Spanish, but I couldn't make out what they were saying.

After taking twice as long as it should have to fill and pay, I jumped in the car and drove off...

Well, I'm looking at the worst tank yet at about 27mpg. I haven't changed my driving habits, and I usually fill up at an Arco (not this one). Considering I have been getting 31mpg this summer, and considering I get that regardless of stop and go traffic or steady highway cruising, I'm wondering what could be causing the poor economy. The car even feels less powerful.

You think the attendant could have done anything in the few minutes I was away from the car? I wouldn't think anything could easily be poured in the tank without throwing a PID code.

[euromodder]

Get your legislators to change the law and fill up yourself.

It's NOT dangerous.
The whole of Europe is doing it ...

[Fat Charlie]

The good news: New distance record! 563.7 miles!!

The bad news: Ran it dry.

More good news: Came to a stop in front of a friend's house, got gas right there!

More bad news: It was the most exciting thing in my 6 year old's day, so it was the first thing she told my wife.

[user removed]

222 miles, 2.41 gallons. I think the first tank had some old fuel from the previous owner. Coasting, semi tuck, and DFCO. Kept my top speed below 50 MPH. I still managed to go 20 miles today, through 23 traffic lights, in 35 minutes, as good an average speed as any trip on that route. Cost me $8.70 for 222 miles, rode all week since there was no rain. The 45 MPG Fiesta has not moved since last Sunday.

regards
Mech

[NachtRitter]

FC - That is truly amazing! Over 500 miles on that LGT Wagon is pretty stupendous!

We're back in school over here, so one of my typical drives is to the kid's school and back... I have a couple of trip logs for Helga where I've been capturing details of the drive 'to' school and the drive 'from' school... There is an elevation difference of about 400ft from home to school, though the route dips down 200ft before climbing back up. Route is a 50/50 mix of freeway and rural roads.

Normally, a good day driving to the school gets me ~60mpg and a good return trip gets me in the mid-80's for a combined ~70mpg. But there was something magic in the air yesterday and today... (unfortunately I only recorded yesterday in my log) ... yesterday I got over 66mpg going uphill and nearly 100mpg coming back down! Combined FE is nearly 80mpg for the round trip... Today I got even better... 66mpg up and 105mpg down... Wow, Wow, and double-Wow! Definitely my best ever FE round trips (recorded and not recorded) to the school.

Two things that probably helped:
- For each trip, the coolant was already pretty warm... yesterday because Helga had been driven prior to the trip and today because I used the block heater before leaving
- I closed off the gap between the front bumper and the fender liner... though I would be surprised if that made all that much of a difference.

It boggles my mind what could be accomplished if I got serious about the aero on this car (belly pan, skirts, kamm back or boat tail)... whew!

[Sven7]

I was driving about an hour and a half on twisty, hilly roads today, much of it at WOT and 3000-5000rpm in 3rd or 4th gear. Really surprised to see that it didn't seem to use much more gas than usual. I guess with E0 this Rabbit gets 32mpg no matter what! Makes me wonder what would happen if I could keep my foot out of this little 8 valve.

[roosterk0031]

New best tank with the Cobalt at 45.6 mpg, car indicated 46, 120 miles into next tank car's indicating 48.9, going for 50 before weather changes.

[Fat Charlie]

I am so not looking forward to the end of this tank. The cooler mornings are killing my morning FE.

[Sven7]

Drove out to Cokato on Saturday with some car guys to go karting. Going 60-65 mph most of the way, I still managed to get 200 miles on a little over half a tank! Funny that in the convertible I can actually feel the slipstream as I come up on vehicles. In cross winds I can go side to side and feel the smoother air by the way it blows my hair around. Amazing; I wish there were a way to do that in the Probe.