ludemaxima

I filled the gas tank to full and drove it for 100miles and fill it up to full again than divide the mileage with the number of gallons which is 8.2something gallons...fuked up **** is that the car is eating up around 11mpg...WTF??I'm doing something wrong here??? this peace of **** aint' no ferrai

bigdo26

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you're doin it right. just miles divided by gallons. maybe you have a large weight attached to your right foot?? 11 mpg is rather bad

DoGGy

This is what you do.
1. Fill up tank all the way
2. Reset trip odometer to 0 ( press the black needle once till TRIP A appears, then press and hold it for few seconds till it resets to 0)
3. drive untill the tank is almost out (close to E)
4. go to gas station and fill up the tank.
5.write that the amount of gallons u just put in to fill up the tank.
6.divide the number of miles u just drove (look at trip A) by number of gallons u just put in.


what mods u got on ur car? if u got big *** 19 inch rims then ud expect bad mileage!

XoPtOn

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do maxima's have a low mileage light cause i been driving all the way to the end of empty, like the needle is in the middle of the empty slot and i get no light that says i dont have that much gas, i wanted to see how many miles i can drive

mchne

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there's a light, but it's been known to not light up until you're dangerously low...

the only time I ever saw mine was during/after the northeast blackout. it went on while I was on my way home from class. I had planned to fill up on the way home, but the pumps were out because we were powerless.

when I tried to start my car the next morning, it took two cranks to start. first and only time that my car has taken more than one crank to start, EVER.
I was afraid of not even making it to the shell station, heh.

as for testing gas mileage... yeah, do what doggy said. reset the tripo and run it near empty, then do the math.
if your gas mileage is still horrible, you might have a problem. check your ecu for codes, I'd suspect a knock sensor.

p.s. - flooring it all the time will KILL your gas mileage, incase you were unaware.

BatKeith

I get crappy mileage in the city, because I like the sound of my intake.

But on the highway I actually got 33mpg this weekend (137.4 miles, 4.14 gallons). I was incredibly proud of my Maxima. So I'm going to change its oil and wash it real good in a couple weeks, clean the throttle body, maybe remove and brush off the KS (I've heard that this can smooth things out if your cars performance is sporadic).

And if I can get some webpage work going, this christmas might mean NOS kit #5124... we'll see.