Just got back from a trip to Canada. Highway miles all the way. WOW! I love my Acura!

Usually I drive a little faster but I was trying to see what high mpg's I could get...

 

Wow nice. The TL gets good very good mileage

 

The odd thing is that nobody on Fulley.com reports better than 30mpg. I regularly get 31+. I've even managed a 31mpg 2-way average in the city once...

 

I do about 75% Highway / 25% city driving Monday-Friday. I average about 26 mpg. Really would like to be near 30 mpg.

 

I generally get about 23-24 around town

 

do you guys trust the MID or do you actually calculate gas tank mileage? Gas tank mileage being how many miles you travel after filling up tank and how many gallons you need to fill it back up at the next refueling stop. I usually get 21-22 with city driving, 25-26 with highway.

 

that has been discussed a lot and, I believe, the general consensus is that it is pretty accurate... to within 1 or so mpg's. here is the latest thread...

https://acurazine.com/forums/showthr...&highlight=mid

 

maybe this is a little newer...

https://acurazine.com/forums/3g-tl-2004-2008-93/miles-per-gallon-mid-vs-hand-calculation-781964/

 

I only get roughly 15mpg all local......is something wrong?

 

i get 20 mixed

 

I get the same, but am not surprised with all the stop signs/lights. A few times on the highway will boost me up to about 20+ though =]

 

Yes....with your foot

 

i can only get 30 mpg highway, is the type s that much thirstier?

 

also I see you have 19 inch rims on your car. Larger wheels=more gas used to turn them

 

My '04 TL still gets 29-32 mpg on long highway trips averaging about 65-70 mph. I used to get 31-34 mpg on the same highway trips when the car was.... young. In mixed city driving I get about 22 mpg.

 

I get an average of 27 with about 80% highway/traffic and 20% around town. Overall, I'm EXTREMELY happy with the mileage I'm getting. Aside from the TL being a very good car for mileage, if you keep your tires properly inflated it does a lot towards good mileage. I also attribute it to Shell VTech, but I know there's a lot of opinion about that one.

Overall, you can't beat the TL for the combination of mileage and power. I love it. My girlfriend drives a civic and gets about 32 MPG on a tank, but when I merge on the highway in that thing I feel like I need to get out and push. Gotta love the TL.

 

shit the most i get was 19mpg and i was happy with it, and the lowest i got was 11mpg

 

Both my '03 and '05 TL would get 32 mpg without any special effort. Cruise control set to 68 mph. I calculated it based upon what the odometer and gas pump said rather than the MID, though my MID seemed to be accurate.

 

I calculated my mileage against the mid every fillup for the first year and half of owning my 05 6MT. It was dead on every single time. Even when I once calculated 29.5mpg, the mid read 30mpg (which would be the correct expression sans-decimal)...

 

I usually get around anywhere from 15-19 in the city depending on my driving style at that time. And It's the norm for me to get 30+ usually but lately I've just been seeing high 20's. i.e. - 27-28mpg. I usually leave the cruise control set between 70-75mph.

 

That's beautiful MPG

 

TL is a heavy car, thus your city mileage will of course be much lower than any smaller compacts. Highway gas mileage is nearly independent of weight and is driven by engine efficiency and the car's drag coefficient. That's why we get such good highway mileage (similar to smaller compacts), yet get fairly poor city mileage.

As far as keeping tires inflated, a properly inflated vs a somewhat de-flated tire is only going to make a 1-2mpg difference. If it's deflated any more, then chances are you should be worried about tire replacement costs instead of gas costs. Plus it's a safety thing... do it.

Use the cruise control when driving, this will smooth out jerky-driving. However, don't use cruise control on hilly roads as they will drop gear and eat gas quickly. You should actually speed up before the hill, coast up it with a slight throttle (still losing speed), and then accelerate up to speed afterwards.

If you're picking someone up or waiting at that ridiculously long stop-light, it's a good idea to shut down the car. While idling typically uses a low amount of gas, you are still getting 0 mpg during that time. Larger engines also eat gas at a much higher rate than smaller engines when idling. Anything over 2 minutes, and you should shut your car down. Though don't get too crazy or you'll be replacing your starter sooner rather than later.

The biggest mpg increase will be to slow down your acceleration. Don't go from a stop-light and speed up to 45mph as soon as possible. Accelerate slowly and smoothly (without pissing anyone off) and you'll notice huge mpg improvements.

Also, keep in mind that the TL is most efficient right around 50-55mph highway, so do the best you can to get in that range without speeding too much or pissing off passing drivers.

While I know all of these tips work and can make my TL-S (auto) spit out 35+ avg gas mileage with granny driving... I enjoy driving it too much to do this all the time.

 

My MID is off 2 mph (too high) every time I check it. I reset with every fill up and calculate mpg based on the odo. Love the built in calculator in the Nav system.

 

I took a trip from Birmingham, AL to Charlotte, NC a few weeks ago and averaged 32mpg at 74mph. That, to me, was perfect! I'm going from Birmingham to Destin, FL tonight so we'll see if it's roughly the same.

 

I average 18MPG with city driving. But traffic is a bitch in my town.

 

After I got a valve adjustment on my 2004 TL at 100,000 miles my highway mpg increased another +2-3 mpg. I think the engine just ran more efficiently.

I am now at 130,000 miles and the mpg is still solid. I get 34 highway mpg and set the cruise at 70.

 

I still don't understand why our TL's weren't given an instantaneous MPG gauge as well so everyone could adjust their driving habits for maximum mileage, especially considering what's been happening to gas prices over the past decade. The 2003-4-5 Accord with navigation came with one. Since we pay more, shouldn't we expect the same or better functionality than the Accord, and NOT less?
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that would be nice to have one right there because i like to have the trip/temp meter showing most of the time

 

'06 TL, Pagosa Springs, CO to Great Bend, KS, 400 miles even...37 MPG. Averaged 34 on return trip to Kansas from Phoenix.

 

It depends on your definition of "highway"

When I picked up my TL-S and drove it 300 miles all on the interstate with 2 stops I got 36 mpg.

Driving to and from work with a 10-15 minute commute that is 90% highway, I get 24-27, depending on how heavy my foot is that week.

Driving all city without touching the highway, I usually average 18.

So it's wildly variant.

You all seem very impressed with the mileage, but when I look down and see 24 mpg, or 26 on a good day, I get upset.

I'm used to the consistent 34mpg that I got in my Integra for 5 years.

 

18 is still great compared to the 8 my truck was getting!

(1500HD GMC Sierra 4Door 4x4 lifted 4" with 20's)

 

I guess you could say these cars were made for the open highway...

 

I just purchased a '06 MT6 and got 28MPG on my first tank. MID was pretty darn accurate with actual pump/miles calculation. I calculated 27.6 at the pump. Overall very happy.

The car's got 61K on it and from the looks of it has never had the plugs replaced. Maybe some NGK iridiums and a seafoam will kick her up to 30MPG. We'll see.

 

aw man i took a long trip like 4 weeks ago and i even took pictures of my mid bc i thought it was crazy i was getting 37 mpg with an average speed of 69 mph and a total of 430 miles from one tank ALL highway miles. at one point i even saw 38 but that was me driving like at 60 on the far right lane just to purposley try to hit 38, but then i got tired of driving that slow. anyways i took pics of it and wanted to post but never got around to it now i see its pretty common. in the city/highway combined though it is another stoy i usually see 21-23 mpg if i drive conservativly but i tend to have a heavy foot so im lucky if i see 19 or 20 when in the city/highway. after putting my 20's on there i am lucky if i see 20-21 mixed driving. and this week i put on my rv6 v3 j-pipe and im only looking at 17mpg mixed driving, but im not worried because i know its all due to my excitment of having the new pipe so i amm always keeping the rpms high so i can hear it roar..lol.

any how my point is that our cars are very capable of doing 35+ mpgs highway but it all depends if you are willing to drive under 70 mph. i noticed that at 69mph the rpms are constatly slightly under 2k so i believe that is where we can see well over 35+ mpgs.

 

I've gotten up to 43 MPG from a long drive on the highway. I get at least 30 MPG though. But my city MPG is terrible. 15-16.

 

43mpg !!! What is it ? An Acura Prius ?

 

Yup. Got a Hybrid motor in my trunk. lol

 

If I set the cruise to 64mph, I get 33-35. But, I don't like to drive that slow so I'm happy with the 30-31mpg I get at 75-80mph.

 

Fully agreed. The weight is the main reason it gets bad mileage around town. Once you only have to maintain a steady speed and not accelerate that weight, milege goes way up.

The MID knows exactly how much fuel the engine is using and the exact miles driven obviously. It almost can't be wrong.

That would be nice to fine tune the driving style.

If you got 43mpg, you were on a slight decline and didn't notice it. I can make mine say >50mpg for 35 miles but its because the road is on a decline. I get 22 on the return trip.




Every single time these threads are started, it's the exact same responses. Search is your friend.

MPG is directly related to average MPH. The last time we had everyone post their average mph vs mpg, they were all very close.

I can get 32-33 in pure freeway driving. But around here there's a redlight every 200' and they're timed so that you have to stop for every one. My average mph was 17 and my average mpg was 13. It's completely normal.

 

But he's saying that it is wrong by about 2mpg and he's taken proper measurements across multiple fillups. Perhaps his MID is not properly measuring the fuel consumed??


99% of the MPG threads on here fall into one of the 2 following categories:

1. My TL gets terrible MPG. Turns out that the OP does a lot of city driving.
2. My TL gets awesome MPG. Turns out the OP does long highway stretches. (Like myself.)

Both kinds of threads are valid and yet people seem to get emotionally charged one way or another.