i got great gas mileage coming to canada from ct 28mpg 463miles

 

you probably could have done better if you used gas from ct. I drove to boston from central jersey, and filled up in ct. Up to that point i had 31 mpg with 3 adults and the A/C on. After the fill up, including the return trip, i couldnt break 29 mpg. A friend of mine in a pathfinder had the very same problem. We concluded the gas up there isnt as good???

 

When driving long trips on the freeways I average 34 mpg on distances >75-100 miles. At least that is what my tripometer tells me.

 

You can manually check this by resetting the trip odometer btw gas fillings and tracking gallons filled vs miles travelled.

 

man what's up with the trip computer....when i compare the distance traveled to the range option, the range drops soooooo much faster than the distance traveled...it is obvious that it would drop faster if you gun it all the time...but on my way home from work, it's probably about 14 miles or so, but on the range, it says i went from like 380 to 345 or something. does anybody else experience this?

 

I tried driving 55mph on the NYS thruway the other day. For the 30 miles that I could stand it, I averaged 37mpg.

I then kicked it up to 75 and finished off the trip at 33.

Also, I recently reset the tripometer - at 3300 miles it was averaging 27mpg.

Finally, during a day of strong wind on the thruway, I averaged 38mpg from Rochester to Syracuse. On the return trip I averaged 28mpg...

-Eric

 

Here's a theory:
You get better mileage travelling south, because the earth's rotation helps you travel south, like flipping a penny off your dad's prized 33s when you speed them up to 45.
What do you think?

 

That's a good theory, except Buffalo, Rochester, and Syracuse are all east-west of each other.

-Eric

 

Heh, I was just looking around to see if anyone had seen this, too. I just noticed this the other day on mine. I drive about 22 miles one way to and from work, but the range might drop 40 or more miles per leg. It'll come up to a more reasonable value again when I start the car the next time, though. I'll have to watch it sometime and see if the range ever gets higher while the car is running.

Maybe it's just being conservative: if you drive a mile, a mile comes off the range even if you're coasting downhill, but if you really gun it (or get stuck in a lot of stop and go traffic), it takes that into account and takes more miles off the range. I'll have to watch sometime and see if the range ever gets higher while the car is running.

charlie

 

whoa yea...i JUST noticed that. the next time the car starts...the mileage actually goes UP. ehh...wierd computer system~

 

I looked at the manual and it says the range is based on the fuel effeciency of the last few miles. I paid more attention to the range on the trip computer and it will indeed go back up while you're driving if you're not using much gas.

When I drove to work this morning, I noticed that it dropped like a rock until I got on the freeway. Eventually, once I got on the freeway, it came back up quite a bit. So my 22 mile commute in the morning took only 15 miles off the range. So that makes sense, since I know from experience that my morning drive doesn't take much gas (mostly downhill on freeways).

Driving home tonight, however, it took 30 miles off the range. Again, that makes sense, as it's uphill and I drive a slightly different route (but roughly the same distance) to avoid stop and go freeway congestion. I hit more stoplights though, and I also use the A/C more often in the evening, so I get worse gas mileage on that leg of the trip.

What I thought odd was that a couple of times it gave me a range as being "greater than", i.e., ">420" once and ">373" another time. So I wondered how it came up with that and didn't just say "480" or whatever the value would be...

charlie

 

All the gas in CT has 10% ethanol. There may be some areas (outside big cities) in MA or NJ where they are allowed to sell non-ethanol gas, but not in CT. Even if the EPA allows it in parts of CT, our state legislators went "green" a couple of years ago to mandate it everywhere.