How's your mileage this summer? Options

[Lexicon_Devil]

I decided to pay close attention to my mileage this week.
I'm driving a 94 GT 5-Speed.

I don't really go over 70-80 on the highway..but I drive
"peppy" on the surface roads (can't help but have fun in
the Celica)..

I'm getting about 280 a tank. With recent plugs, wires,
rotor, cap, distributor.

How's your mileage this summer and how do you drive?

[RickJamesBish]

Wow, that's pretty crappy.

I get just under 400 a tank, maybe even 400 if I let it go all the way to empty.

[Lexicon_Devil]

Yeah, I drive at pretty high RPMs on the surface roads...but I think
I need a new oxygen sensor and a couple other things.

[GotToyota]

Anywhere from 28-32mpg depending on how I drive.

-Matt

This post has been edited by GotToyota: Aug 7, 2008 - 10:18 PM

[Athorn]

I get about 300 a tank. Jeez 400? what am i doing wrong? i Just replaced my spark plugs and wires..everyhitn else seems fine. What else should i do.

[mneal2_92788]

at my rate, im gettin 330-400 a tank. 94 gt, idk how new anything is, i just started driving it last wednesday

[azian_advanced]

now i'm getting 25-27.5 mpg. all city (no freeways or hwy).
in the winter i get 19-20mpg.

[Akirad1]

i get about 26 to 32 as well but i got the auto and its and st but i dont drive to much usually 3 to 4 days a week

[Lexicon_Devil]

I get about 300 a tank. Jeez 400? what am i doing wrong? i Just replaced my spark plugs and wires..everyhitn else seems fine. What else should i do.

You're doing nothing wrong. You're driving a GT. He's driving an ST. It all depends on your
driving. My city driving RPMs are almost always above 3k. And I do mostly city driving.
If I took it really easy - drove soft, shifted soft and lightened up on the gas foot, my mileage
would jump up considerably. In the situation where I am doing highway driving, I get about
31 MPG.

[Rayme]

now i'm getting 25-27.5 mpg. all city (no freeways or hwy).
in the winter i get 19-20mpg.

Get a block heater or a oil pan heating pad !!!

I have the same crappy winter MPG...winter blend + cold + snowy road = excrement!

[azian_advanced]

i have a block heater.. it's just that my parents think it's a waste of electricity if i leave it on overnight (i can agree to that). they say turning it on in the morning a couple of hours before i leave is ok.. and when i park at the university, i park at the 'cheap' far lot with no power available.

oh yeah, btw we get much harsher winters than you..

i love snow... i just hate the cold.

[ETNRIDER]

Last time I checked I think I got 412 miles on a tank.

I have a 95 GT Auto

[devilsden97]

Last time I checked I think I got 412 miles on a tank.

I have a 95 GT Auto

all highway?^

auto gt here. about 315 to 330 if i run it to like 12.9gal (combo of city and hwy)

[Rayme]

i have a block heater.. it's just that my parents think it's a waste of electricity if i leave it on overnight (i can agree to that). they say turning it on in the morning a couple of hours before i leave is ok.. and when i park at the university, i park at the 'cheap' far lot with no power available.

oh yeah, btw we get much harsher winters than you..

i love snow... i just hate the cold.

OOH wait there, I will not argue with you, but last winter here was the worst ever! I had no blower and no place to put all my snow, it was insane!

Buy a timer for the block heater (I guess you have that already ), 2 hours of pre-heating proably only costs like .20 $ of power.

[Fastbird]

Crappy. About 21.5-23.5 depending on how much I use the A/C and throttle. I guess the motor has something to do with that though.

[mikew04]

I check my mileage every time I fill up to make sure everything is kosher; it hasn't been below 25 in a few years. 27-29 combined city/highway with AC on is average. I've gotten over 33 on highway trips.

[devilsden97]

I went to albany this week. 90miles there. 110ish back (car accident...long way around) crusing 3k RPM + some city driving and the tank is empty.

currently 368miles on the tank....and i have enough to get to the station.. 7 miles from my house.

This post has been edited by devilsden97: Aug 8, 2008 - 3:09 PM

[GriffGirl]

420 miles on a tank easily before I start getting scared. That's mostly highway miles, but with stop and go traffic

[Rider]

Last time I checked I think I got 412 miles on a tank.

I have a 95 GT Auto

That's about what I used to get with stock 15'' rims. Now I usually fill up around 370-380 to be on the safe side (it would probably go over 400 though) with 17's. About 27-29 mpg, which I think it's pretty normal, considering I use my A/C every now and then and I don't drive slow either.

[azian_advanced]

i just checked my hwy mileage as i was coming back from the US cruising at 3000-3200 rpm's with A/C i got 32 mpg.

[Lazurus]

A little over 400 a tank with most being highway miles.

[RickJamesBish]

IDK if there's anything I could do to raise my MPG...I'm assuming the engine is working pretty efficiently even though it's older.

Assuming I drive 400 miles and empty the tank, I'm only getting 25 MPG. Good, but I drive pretty relaxed, with AC on 75% of the time and the rest with the windows down when I do less than 55. Weird since the factory estimations are 27 city, 34 highway, I would think I'd get somewhere in between that.

[BonzaiCelica]

i have a ST 5 speed. with new spark plugs, K&N cold air intake, with one new ntk oxygen sensor and full exhaust system. I drive all city. Shifting at no more than 2,200 rpms and never going faster than 50mph. Pretty much driving like a grandma you can say... i get 380 miles with 13.5 gallons. The tank itself can carry 14.5 gallons. I always fill up when the gas light turns on or a little before. like in between empty and the 1/4 line. the best the car will get on the street is 28 mpg. still need to change my main oxygen sensor that has 110,000 miles on it. I NEVER USE THE A/C

This post has been edited by BonzaiCelica: Aug 11, 2008 - 9:16 PM

[Myxx]

best so far was 32mpg. im using 94 GT a/t

[devilsden97]

374/12.9=28.99 on my last tank. (included a 180ish mile highway trip)

[massbrandon]

34mpg right after an oil change and mostly highway miles.

[DropTop95]

i almost never use my ac and i drive ...........peppy.... i think was the earlyer term i can get about 390-400 to the tank and thank god i dont have winters like that i think the coldest i have ever seen it here was 20 above 0. And its thats a pretty fair mix of hwy and city driving.

[delusionz]

According to some post on some other forum kilometers per litre (kpl) = mpg * 0.3540, i know my car does 8kpl around the city (probably about 9kpl if hitting the very bottom of the tank--below e) and i reach between 9-10 kpl if any motorway driving is done on the same tank of gas, by this equation i'm getting 22mpg in the city and between 25 - 28mpg with motorway driving included. On a scale between 0-10, 0 being conservative without freewheeling, 10 being lead foot, my driving is about 7.

[parriehunter]

Using the maths given by delusionz, I get about 11 km/l (31 mpg) around town and 13.5 km/l (38 mpg) for purely open road driving. Around town I get 550km from full to when the light comes on (~50l), and about 680 km on open road driving. I wouldn't call my driving "nana" driving but I don't take it to 7k with every shift, usually to 3 -4.5k with the odd one to 6k.