Gas mileage poll
 

hey everyone , a little poll about you gas mileage:

We'll start with the highway mileage, your welcome to include your city mileage but we all know its not that great lol.

exhaust leak = permant umbilical cord to gas station

Why no option for 30+? I had to mark 26mpg...

Not really OT, but how does gas mileage usually compare VE vs. VG?

feel your pain
 

:mecry:
cut the cord by fixing the leak no?

I went with the advertised gas mileage in my booklet:reading: . I didnt think the Max could muster more than 26, feel free to post you mileage

Mine gets about 370-390 highway...Never gauged it in the city..:gotme:

I'm usually between 29 and 31. My best is 33.459mpg averaged over 429 miles. Norfolk VA to Carlisle PA and half way back again.

wow
 

thats a nice number for the max. i usually do around 20 to 23 on the highway, but i do need to change my spark plugs and maybe injectors. Im thinking of getting rid of the stock airbox and just putting a cold air intake.was joking with my mechanic friend worst case ill cut the hood and force feed it lol

Of course (in 92 atleast) a GXE 4-sp automatic had a final drive ratio of 3.642, whereas an SE 5-speed had an fdr of 3.823.

Weights are close to the same... 16 lbs diff or something... why the disparity in mileage?

fuel leak
 

i might have a fuel leak i dont know about lol.but as i said, i just got my baby and she needs to be pampered a bit before she's back to her prime or close to it. nice car btw Aztec

mostly I get 27 mpg...in need of plugs and CAI

my record was 448 miles on the 91 GXE tank, but i was running like 94 or something and it was 100% highway. city mileage sucks.

I say 5 speed for 5speed the vg may get a little better due to making peak torque qicker.:gotme:

And by the way not another Gas milage thread. We just had one.

She's a 30 footer. The paint's in pretty bad shape... Tons of stone chips on the hood, black marks on the fenders... Everything's pretty stock. She runs great, no VTC clacks, even at 235,000 miles.

really??
 

sorry i guess i wasn't a member yet , sorry for the repost

i get bout 28 average with highway and city. WAI, new plugs, dist cap, and rotor. GXE AT 90000ish milage

89 wit 211.000 getting 25 mpg

i have never goten over 250 miles to a tank of gas........i cant wait for prices to do down soon

I usually do mostly highway driving and get around 22 mpg.. with a VERY heavy foot...

I went ahead and marked under 20 mpg, because I do strictly city driving, and I do highway about once every other week. My best highway mileage has been 30 dead on with 92 octane.

On strictly city, I get ~17.5 on 89 Oct (midgrade in KS) and ~19 on 91 Oct (my usual choice for fuel).

I get really good mileage for what mods I have. It's probably more around 25 MPG than 26 though. In town isn't too bad either, I believe around 18-19 MPG when I'm driving nice and considerate of the other moronic drivers.

I run 91 octane though. 85 is too cheap, and burns quickly, and all the 89 around here is 10% ethanol blend, which I found out the expensive way that it eats my injectors.

maby u just fill up again b4 the light even turns on.


yea i get around 20mpg mainly all highway. i belive this timg i got 306 miles on a full tank. but then again my tank leakes when i fill up all the way. i tried the shell V power sometimes . i didnt noice any thing at all. so i just kept to 89. the regualr from BP seems to be lasting longer then the other brands 4 somereason.

I never broke 210 per tank on my old grey max.

i get a about 13 mpg

Ya you should have made an option for 28+ mpg... breathing mods can definatly help milage. In my many drives to pheonix and back.. ive averaged over 30 on many tanks :woot:

What the hell are you people talking aboutr??? I just chaged my VTC's with the knock sensor and oxigent sensor, and I still get arond 13.7 mpg. I have to admit that I mostly drive with my car cold, to work & back (about a mile), and then about another 2 miles away on the highway (50 to 70 mph). I get around 30 miles a day on this car. I have to admit, my trunk is full with tool boxes and such, plus I never warm my car up, I heard that driving it gently warms it up quicker, which makes less damage. The book says 19 to 21 mpg, but still, 13.7 is a rip off. My DSM (Eagle Talon, both '91 with around 280 hp, and an '90 with around 300 - 320 hp at the wheels got at least 20 mpg). I do have a heavy right foot, but 13.7 mpg, even in mybook is f**ked up!
PS his car also handles like crap, and I do know how to drive, and my shucks are in good condition, I just changed my rear tires, going to change the front ones as well. Any other sugestions? For exempal, my '88 Prelude takes turns at about 10 to 25 miles per hour faster.
Still love my Maxima. though, Val!!!

nice spread developping
 

yeah guys i see a nice spread forming up here, but i have to agree with SouthStar, i noticed that if i fill it up completly the first quarter goes by fast then it gets better, but i dont think its leaking , checked it last night when full and the tank is good. mysterious. oh and another thing i belive my gauge is possesed, sometimes it moves sometime it doesnt.maybe its the pressure in the tank that is going nuts.



P.S thanks to all for your participation, dont be shy and comment. As i said before i didnt put the option for 26 and above, cause i really didnt think i was gonna see anyone doing over 26.

i just checked mine, pushed it hard mostly and got 22 on my last tank....highway/city mix

25 mph hwy - drive 70 miles one way doing mostly 75 + mph. I wonder what I'd get w/a tune-up, injectors, cone air filter, & driving @ the speed limit or less.

full tank = approx. 375 mile

Not quite OT, but am I the only one whose gas light comes on after about 12 gallons? According to my calculations, that means I have 6 gallons left. At a conservative 25mpg, that means I still have 150 miles left. I always assumed my gas gauge read a little low, especially since that first quarter of a tank goes by so quickly... but you guys say you get less than 400 miles to a tank... to me 18gals x 25mpg = 450 miles. and we've established that alot of us get more than 25mpg

Ive often wondered how far I could go with the gas light on.... but I thought the tanks were 15 or 16 gal?

15 gal x 25 mpg = 375
16 gal x 25 mpg = 400

hrmm..... did someone say the owners manual states 19 - 21mph???
If i had the 92 owners manual I'd look it up - but if the tank is 18 gal...maybe I can go a lot farther than I thought with the gas light on

maybe i'll take a 5 gal can w/me some day & run the bugger out & really see how far it can go.

my light starts to come on when ive only burned through about 13-14 gallons..

I've driven w/the light on for 30-40 miles. All together I only get 220-250 miles per tankfull.

I'm going to clean all the crap out of my trunk... (it's february, really, why are my golf clubs still in my trunk?) Do a little tuning, change some fluids, lube up some moving parts, fill up a 5 gallon gas can and see about breaking 600 miles on one tank. That's 33.33mpg. Who's up for a little competition?

Regular driving I get about 16 c/19 h but when I drive like a gramma I get about 21-22 mixed...lately its been low around 14 to 15 city and highway mixed..will be changing fuel filter and pcv soon as has been almost 10k miles since I changed them...

Sorry cant keep my foot out of the tank that long.

i put 26 but i get closer to 30 on the highway with the turbo setup. i have the potential for much better mileage once i start working on it a bit.

havent check lately due to most of my driving is in city but in city i get 21 to 22 in city with about 30 highway last time i took a road trip

does the exhuast leak really affect the gas milege by that much??