How much gas money have you saved via ecomodding?

[Cd]

Originally Posted by Frank Lee

Money saved due to "ecomods"- who knows? Money saved due to bicycling, walking, living close to work, doing my own tuning, maintenance, and repair, and choosing cheap/free yet fuel efficient vehicles... LOTS.

I too have done this successfully.

I simply moved closer to my job.

I can now bike or walk, and my car sits for weeks at a time.

I have probably saved thousands on fuel, and avoided tons of pollution in the air as well.

The amount of money i have spent on aeromods ( belly pan material, rivets, aluminum, bolts, washers etc) , as well as a SuperMID display, will never be paid for, but hey its a hobby !

So the amount I have saved to eco / aero mods ?

Maybe $ 5 - $ 6 in the last five years.

[Weather Spotter]

Lifetime according to the garage is $1617.76. that counts in my first 55,000 non hypermiling miles. the last 40,000 miles is when I started hypermiling has saved me ~$800 . so all my mods have paid for them selves!

[Frank Lee]

Comparing to EPA doesn't measure how much ecomods are saving you unless you were getting exactly EPA before.

[t vago]

Or if you can compare your vehicle to a sampling of similar vehicles, like you can by using a website like Fuelly.

[Weather Spotter]

My $800 saved is compared from my original MPG.

[JethroBodine]

I was getting EPA(25mpg) before I came here. My first fuel log(26.05mpg) had a little hypermiling in it.

According to my log, I've saved $879 over 13,000 miles. That means I've paid for the car, MPGuino, and most of the mods I've done so far. Of course that doesn't include the trips that I decided not to take or combined with others, any performance mods that I may have decided to make, track days I WAS looking into but have decided not to,...

[deathtrain]

Total fills: 31
Average cost per gallon: $3.45
Average cost per fill: $27.19
Average cost per mile: $0.06Total gallons used: 247.09
Total miles traveled: 13871
Total cost: $852.46
Total saved: 286.41 gallons
Total saved: $988.11
Average tank distance: 447.45

but this is not really accurate (to me) because the first mod i did was to buy a more FE car and stop driving my 15mpg truck. so I am actually about $2800 saved is fuel alone. And minus that price of the car. I should break even about the 52 week mark.

*side note* the info from the garage above says that i have saved more $$$ in fuel than i my cost....

[320touring]

Originally Posted by brucepick

It's because it's a Bimmer.

To be fair its got a trackday and a european roadtrip under it's belt..

needs a Handbrake backplate and 2 tyres for MOT minimum..

[euromodder]

I'm using about 1L/100km less, so that's 200-250 L less yearly.
That's 270 to 337.5 euro less on gas yearly, at current prices.

That's not a lot, and it's the result of the law of diminishing returns when you start out with a fairly fuel efficient car.


Given the total cost of motoring, that's peanuts (currently 5% on a 10 year depreciation period), and it's completely eaten up by the increase in fuel price since 2009.


A Scangauge costs half that; the more aerodynamic rims cost about as much if I subtract the LRR tires that came with them.

[Pawtuckett]

EPA Rating (% over): 28 (90.8571%)
Total fills: 22
Average cost per gallon: $3.52
Average cost per fill: $25.19
Average cost per mile: $0.07Total gallons used: 157.39
Total miles traveled: 7682.7
Total cost: $554
Total saved: 117 gallons
Total saved: $411.84
Average tank distance: 349.21


For me, it wasn't just savings in gas money with this car. I sold my 2002 Accord in February, that I got about 21 mpg in, for my 95 civic ex. I calculated how much I've saved based on JUST the change in cars versus the miles driven since I started logging my trips (excluding hypermiling and assuming 21 mpg for the accord and 28 mpg for the civic) and I came up with $321.94, or 91.46 gallons saved by driving the civic instead of the accord.

So, my REAL fuel savings is $733.78, and that's not including the $70/month of car insurance saved, which would be another $560 saved. I paid $1,500 for the car, so it's almost already paid for itself in almost 8 months.