FUEL ECONOMY or lack of....

[SABIO]

Yup.. it's me again* Hahahaha

Well...Something surprising happened my last tank of gas.... ???

462km..light goes on :o 45L of gas to fill up. :-**9.7L/100km = 24.25Miles per Gallon :o :o :o All in town!

After 2 years of shit mileage...my car decides to pick it up with 6 months left in my lease...go figure.


AND. This AGAIN shows that when your low fuel light goes on.. YOU DO NOT HAVE 10L or more in your Tank.
Someone mentioned that you have 10-15L in your tank when it goes on.... Don't rely on it.. unless you actually try it out..

[majic]

Yup.. it's me again Hahahaha

Well...Something surprising happened my last tank of gas.... ???

462km..light goes on :o 45L of gas to fill up. :-* 24.25Miles per Gallon :o :o :o All in town!

After 2 years of shit mileage...my car decides to pick it up with 6 months left in my lease...go figure.


AND. This AGAIN shows that when your low fuel light goes on.. YOU DO NOT HAVE 10L or more in your Tank.
Someone mentioned that you have 10-15L in your tank when it goes on.... Don't rely on it.. unless you actually try it out..


i usually fill 42L to the first click maybe within 10km of driving with the light on.. last few fillups were high 7s and low to mid 8s.. 8.3L/100km and so on.. not bad for a lot of city driving and stop and go on the highway..

[bubba1983]

i also sabio have been gettin phenominal gas mileage as of late...
the last few tanks ive gone thru all have been in excess of 550km
all have been city driving, and every gear has been shifted at 2000rpm


seems liek ive found something that works!!

[TheProfessor]

Just when I thought the forum was in a perfect balance with one of Sabio's famous "fuel economy sucks" threads I open it up and what do I see........decent gas mileage?!?!? Now I've heard everything ;D

[Cardinal Fang]

I've checked SABIO's IP address and it's the same. I think there is a disturbance in the Force.

[b]

My gas milage blows and always has. I am average out around 375 km to a tank. 1/2 and 1/2 highway and city. I did however get my first tank over 425 last week.

[Timmy]

Wow, I think something is wrong if I'm under 500km per take.

I usually get somewhere in the 500's with about half city and half country highway.
Probably be over 600 if it is was all highway. Helps if driving at 90km/hr without having to brake every few blocks.

Spent one tank where it was mostly city and it dropped to about 450km.

[3GFX]

I always get around 500km no matter what kind of driving I do. One benifit of living here in T.O. is the gas prices. I kitchener gas is 83 cents and here in woodbridge I filled at 72.3. In 45 liters that about 5$ in savings!!! PER TANK!!! A few tanks and I'm laughing!!!

[bubba1983]

yah yah, rag on bl abla

we hit 79.9 here the other day bahahahahha


i wish ih ad the same mileage as my dads car...in excess of 800km/tank

[McGuyver_3]

Yup.. it's me again* Hahahaha

Well...Something surprising happened my last tank of gas.... ???

462km..light goes on :o 45L of gas to fill up. :-**9.7L/100km = 24.25Miles per Gallon :o :o :o All in town!

After 2 years of shit mileage...my car decides to pick it up with 6 months left in my lease...go figure.


AND. This AGAIN shows that when your low fuel light goes on.. YOU DO NOT HAVE 10L or more in your Tank.
Someone mentioned that you have 10-15L in your tank when it goes on.... Don't rely on it.. unless you actually try it out..



my light came on and my tank had 23 liters left in it and i was so pissed thats not when the light should go on should be at max 10l

[3GFX]

Yup.. it's me again* Hahahaha

Well...AND. This AGAIN shows that when your low fuel light goes on.. YOU DO NOT HAVE 10L or more in your Tank.
Someone mentioned that you have 10-15L in your tank when it goes on.... Don't rely on it.. unless you actually try it out..



my light came on and my tank had 23 liters left in it and i was so pissed thats not when the light should go on should be at max 10l


DUDE!!! 23 litres left (practically half a tank), you gotta go get that fixed!!!!

[McGuyver_3]

Yup.. it's me again* Hahahaha

Well...AND. This AGAIN shows that when your low fuel light goes on.. YOU DO NOT HAVE 10L or more in your Tank.
Someone mentioned that you have 10-15L in your tank when it goes on.... Don't rely on it.. unless you actually try it out..



my light came on and my tank had 23 liters left in it and i was so pissed thats not when the light should go on should be at max 10l


DUDE!!! 23 litres left (practically half a tank), you gotta go get that fixed!!!!


The next time i get a day off im gonna drop off my car and get them to give me a loaner because i have a list of things that have to be fixed. The mirror, The trim around the window black is peeling, the rubber seals are all dried out and cracked, my clutch makes a very weird vibration while releasing it, my car shakes pretty bad when sitting at a light. I think my car is a friken lemon

[jaguar]

AND. This AGAIN shows that when your low fuel light goes on.. YOU DO NOT HAVE 10L or more in your Tank.
Someone mentioned that you have 10-15L in your tank when it goes on.... Don't rely on it.. unless you actually try it out..


I agree. Last time the low fuel light came on at about 50km left. I refueled and it came to about 46.2L or something so I am looking at about 9L worth of gas left when that light comes on. I do mostly highway driving from Scarborough to Mississauga and the trip computer tells me about 680km worth of gas when I fill up. Then again, I am running the 2.0L engine.

[iconicrocket]

I just gave up bitching about the fuel economy long ago. If I get 460km and the refuel light goes on, I'm happy.

[brentb]

That windshield defroster makes the car suck back the gas, because it runs the AC compressor. I was getting 550-580 km out of a tank, but now the cooler weather is here, I just got about 100km less out of the last tank. The windshield keeps frosting up and I have to keep switching to one of the defrost settings. If I forget to switch it back, or can't, then the fuel mileage goes way down. I might try some of that Anti-fog treatment so I don't have to run the defroster all the time.

[Flagrum_3]

Last fill- 501 km/311miles driven (still had almost 1/4 tank left) 39.72L/8.73 Gals that works out to 35.65 mpg.Definitely not babying it.Of the 500k driven 200 were highway at 140kph on avg the rest city.Gas mileage is still going up! :o


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[whodilly]

I always get crappy mileage because I drive my car pretty hard.... IT'S MORE FUN!!! ;D

Usually shift at mid to high 4k daily driving, and on ramps are redline all the way!!!! Still haven't lost the fun in driving the car, even if it does cost me a little more each time at the pump.

[DrunknFoo]

That windshield defroster makes the car suck back the gas, because it runs the AC compressor. I was getting 550-580 km out of a tank, but now the cooler weather is here, I just got about 100km less out of the last tank.* The windshield keeps frosting up and I have to keep switching to one of the defrost settings. If I forget to switch it back, or can't, then the fuel mileage goes way down. I might try some of that Anti-fog treatment so I don't have to run the defroster all the time.




+1

[b]

In the last week I have been driving 1 gear higher than I normally would in every mode. Street, on and off ramps, etc... and I have had my first 480km tank :o

[MAZDA Kitten]

I dont know what you are all talking about

This is all alien to me
My car consistently hits between 320-350 at HALF tank

Weirdos :P

[Chuckie]

my light comes on at 30km remaining on the trip.
I am definately sure that there isn't 10L in there.. =P

I get around 470ish a tank before the light comes on. Not complaining.

[SIM SIMMA]

My fuel economy got better and now it is getting worse.

What the effing dilly yo

When I was driving to the west end for work i was getting around 550-70 a tank...

NOW I am barely getting 510. Hmmm... tire pressure has been checked... the only thing is less traffic means a higher top speed on the hwy :)

whatever...

[CoolColombian]

my light comes on at 30km remaining on the trip.
I am definately sure that there isn't 10L in there.. =P



I assume that, b/c when my light comes on and if I fill it up right way I just can put a maximun of 42 to 45L of gas, so if our tanks has a capacity of 55L, where those 10 o 13L went? Thas why i'm saying that when the light comes on you still have 10L or more of gas in the tank.

How many Km you can drive with that? Well, depens on how you drive.

[majic]

I assume that, b/c when my light comes on and if I fill it up right way I just can put a maximun of 42 to 45L of gas, so if our tanks has a capacity of 55L, where those 10 o 13L went? Thas why i'm saying that when the light comes on you still have 10L or more of gas in the tank.

How many Km you can drive with that? Well, depens on how you drive.


i find that 80km i can do w/o worries.. once i ran out right at 100 km with 5m to go to a gas station (had to push across an intersection.. lol) - stupid rush hour traffic! :-[

EDIT: the tank might be 55L but it never fills to that amount.. by my calculations there's 10-12L left in the tank (usually when i filll up and teh light comes on i fill 42-43L) anwyay.. each case will vary..

[CoolColombian]

usually when i filll up and teh light comes on i fill 42-43L


same as me, so we must be right, ;)

[Xerox]

These are my averages per month since I purchased the car.
All types of driving but I do like to drive fast every once in a while.
(I convert into mpg since I'm accustomed to American car mags)

2005 hatch, 2.3L 5MT

Manufacturer's rating city/hwy: 26.00mpg/32.00mpg

April 2005: 28.20mpg
May 2005: 28.00mpg
June 2005: 29.60mpg
July 2005: 28.80mpg
Aug 2005: 28.90mpg
Sept 2005: 28.70mpg
Oct 2005: 24.10mpg
Nov 2005: 27.80mpg
Dec 2005: unknown
Jan 2006: 27.90mpg
Feb 2006: 26.80mpg
March 2006: 27.70mpg
April 2006: 29.70mpg
May 2006: 28.00mpg
June 2006: 28.60mpg
July 2006: 30.50mpg
Aug 2006: 26.00mpg

Overall avg: 28.08mpg

[Xerox]

462km..light goes on :o 45L of gas to fill up. :-**9.7L/100km = 24.25Miles per Gallon :o :o :o All in town!

AND. This AGAIN shows that when your low fuel light goes on.. YOU DO NOT HAVE 10L or more in your Tank.
Someone mentioned that you have 10-15L in your tank when it goes on.... Don't rely on it.. unless you actually try it out..


The manual states that the fuel tank capacity is 55L. If you filled up 45L when the light came on... ::) doesn't that mean you had 10L left?

[Rollout-G]

Oh man, and I thought I had a bad week last week - 548km on the tank :)

[majic]

Oh man, and I thought I had a bad week last week - 548km on the tank :)


whn the light came on or when you filled up? ::)

[Rollout-G]

Oh man, and I thought I had a bad week last week - 548km on the tank :)


whn the light came on or when you filled up? ::)


When I filled up when the light was on :)

[majic]

Oh man, and I thought I had a bad week last week - 548km on the tank :)


whn the light came on or when you filled up? ::)


When I filled up when the light was on :)


am i the only one having trouble understanding this ?

[Rollout-G]

Oh man, and I thought I had a bad week last week - 548km on the tank :)


whn the light came on or when you filled up? ::)


When I filled up when the light was on :)


am i the only one having trouble understanding this ?


Ok, let me clarify - after seeing the light on, I drove maybe 7-8km's and filled up. At the time that I filled up, I had driven 548km's on the tank.

[majic]

oh ok.. now it makes sense :P

what kind of driving? hwy? city? spirited?

[Rollout-G]

Sorry - should've mentioned that originally.
I usually do 60% hwy, 40% city. This past week was brutal in terms of traffic chaos on the 401. 2.0 ATX.
Not overly aggressive driving, but ain't drivin' like a wuss either ;)