How many miles can you get on 1 tank?
- Thread starter Red Racer
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I can't believe there is so much discussion around such a meaningless question. You never fill up a full tank (unless it dies and you are rolling up to the pump when you are totally out of gas). When the fuel light first comes on, you might have 8-12 litres left in the tank. Neither the guage or the light are accurarte enough to determine gas consumption. If the point of this thread it to compare gas mileage , then the correct way to measure it is to:
1. Fill up tank completely.
2. Reset trip counter.
3. Drive a lot.
4. Fill up tank just as completely as last time.
5. Record how many litres/gallons you put in.
6. Record your trip counter reading.
7. Do the math to determine mileage for that tank of gas.
1. Fill up tank completely.
2. Reset trip counter.
3. Drive a lot.
4. Fill up tank just as completely as last time.
5. Record how many litres/gallons you put in.
6. Record your trip counter reading.
7. Do the math to determine mileage for that tank of gas.
MidnightP5
Member
I am in a big city and average just under 300 when i need to fill up. I will fill up and drive. At half a tank, I will have something like 150 miles done. I would assume that by doing proper math, I would have about 300 miles when I need to fill up. Once I pass that half a tank marker, the car seems to eat up the gas more. Anyone else experience this. I do pretty much the same drive all the time.
My last tank I got 24mpg, which I thought was bad enough. I recently went back to school (I go to UCF in Orlando), and 90% of my driving is through horrible campus traffic. After half a tank, I've only logged 106 miles on the trip meter! I'm going on a 200 mile trip this weekend so I'll see how much it improves, but that just doesn't seem right.
Gas mileage
Yes Chuck, that's all. Everything depends on how you drive, auto vs manual tranny, a/c or not, and so on. My car is now close to 18000km (11200miles) and the very best I've had is 33.4mpg (Imperial that is), no air conditioning, manual tranny and driving on cruise control at 110km/h on the highway. It ain't good I admit (my previous Civic was doing 43mpg...), but I want to wait until the car reaches 25000km before I complain to Mazda. I think this car should at least do 38mpg (Imperial of course).
If you car is really new, wait a little, it SHOULD get better mileage with time...I hope
Oh yea I forgot, better check this on a monthly basis. I've used this spreadsheet for quite a while and results vary so much from tank to tank that once a month give you a better average.
Yes Chuck, that's all. Everything depends on how you drive, auto vs manual tranny, a/c or not, and so on. My car is now close to 18000km (11200miles) and the very best I've had is 33.4mpg (Imperial that is), no air conditioning, manual tranny and driving on cruise control at 110km/h on the highway. It ain't good I admit (my previous Civic was doing 43mpg...), but I want to wait until the car reaches 25000km before I complain to Mazda. I think this car should at least do 38mpg (Imperial of course).
If you car is really new, wait a little, it SHOULD get better mileage with time...I hope
Oh yea I forgot, better check this on a monthly basis. I've used this spreadsheet for quite a while and results vary so much from tank to tank that once a month give you a better average.
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Best to date in the city is 380 and was running on fumes, actually think it started to sputter out as I pulled into the gas station. I have been averaging around 25-26 in the city. Just took my first trip in the car and got 430 out of 1 tank. Woo hoo. I am used to my Lightning that has twin tanks each holding 15 gallons. My best to date in that is 441. Work it out for yourself. It doesn't take a genius to see why I got a P5 for my daily driver. I avergaed between 9 and 11 in the city. Funny thing is that I am driving my P5 paying for gas and the car payment for less than I was spending in gas alone on the truck. Boy do I miss the power though!
Rogue_Biker
Member
Some of you guys need to read the EPA info located in that sticker when you bought your car.
It has the EPA mileage rating but below that it also says the car will get between 20-26 mpg in the city and 27-36 in the highway depending on speed, conditions, and load. So if your P5's mileage falls within the above range for city and/or highway, it's normal.
I get 28 mpg combined city and highway. Not bad and is within the normal range.
It has the EPA mileage rating but below that it also says the car will get between 20-26 mpg in the city and 27-36 in the highway depending on speed, conditions, and load. So if your P5's mileage falls within the above range for city and/or highway, it's normal.
I get 28 mpg combined city and highway. Not bad and is within the normal range.
GMalatrasi
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- 2003 Mazda Proteg5, soon to be Turbo
260 mpg, A/C always on, Automatic, Spirited driving, and 99% of my driving is city, I rarely get on the highway.
