On average how many mile should I get to a full tank? I average from 250-280 depending on moods smile.gif

Only reason I ask is because 93 octane is 1.86 here...Shark only get's 93.

I drive on the highway a bit <4 minutes> about three miles or four miles to work and then the same way home....then alittle city driving..but mostly it feels lately to just go driving around.... tongue.gif

 

Your mileage sounds about right. My average is 280 miles in my accent. To date my best was 310 but I was really bushin it! The only thing that I can say is try switching to full synthetics in the engine,trans,and powerstearing. This could help in your quest for fuel mileage!!

 

Between LA and Phoenix I can top 380 on a tank. Driving around LA with a lot of hard driving, it can drop down to 250.

Average is 290 to 310.

 

I guess it depends on what you call a "full tank"... A full tank is like 14.2 gallons, but I doubt you're putting more than 13 in the car when you stop for gas.

What you need to do is use your trip-odometer (the little 4-digit meter below your real odometer) to measure exactly how many miles you rack up between fillups. Fill the car up to the top, reset that little trip-odometer, and drive like normal until it's ready to be filled again.

When you fill the tank up, take notice of exactly how much gas you just put in. Then, take the number of miles on your trip-odometer, and divide by the amount of gas you just put in the car. Like 343.7 miles divided by 12.4 gallons of gas = 27.7 miles per gallon.

My car will usually stick around 25mpg for the city, and around 30mpg for highway. My general average is around 26/27, and my absolute worst was like 22 for one weekend while I was racing almost the entire time.

Otherwise, just going by what you guys are posting, I would generally say that ALL your cars are sucking gas horribly, because my car will generally go for 350+ miles on a tank of gas. I bet, in real life, your cars are running very similarly to mine, but you just fill yours up earlier than I do...

 

What Red said is true, because at around 300 miles, i'm usually only putting in 11 or 12 gallons.

When I do my LA to Phoenix runs, I'm putting in between 13 and 14.

 

I get about 29.6 mpg on those Milwaukee -> Madison -> Chicago runs...about 80 mph running 89 octane fuel. Best ever was 35.2 mpg going through Indiana on 87 octane fuel at aproximately 75 mph on I-65/I-74 and the worst was 19 mpg on I-294 through Chicago.

(I know, it's sick I keep a log book with mileage, etc.. I use my car mostly for work and have to track mileage for reimbursement)

 

LOL! It's not sick, it's actually very good for the car. I have kept a log book on almost all of my cars I've ever owned...

I keep a fairly detailed logbook for my Tiburon, mostly because I want to see instantly if anything starts going downhill. One time my car started getting like 34mpg in the city, and shortly thereafter I started getting a check-engine light and it didn't idle right. Turned out I had a crack in the rubber elbow-hose thing that connects your throttlebody to the MAF sensor!

Had I not known about the mileage going up, I would have started looking for vacuum leaks...

-Red-

 

RED posts on our board!!! WERE NOT WORTHY WERE NOT WORTHY!!! :-) Welcome bro!

 

Heehee

You're certainly worthy, as evidenced by the large user base you've already aquired, and by the fact that you guys are doing a good job with the information.

I was invited by Random to help with a MAF question, and I've just kinda stuck around ever since wink.gif