TheOzzfather

My Max was getting just ****ty gas milage. Then at about 9500 miles all of a sudden I am getting around 325 miles to the tank as opposed to about 260 before. Still not great milage but heck I will take anything! Any one else experienced this?? Just hit 10k for miles. Going to go one more oild change then it is Mobile 1 time!

NT2SHBBY

this is normal..car is breaking in...expect gas mileage to be funky until I'd say about 30,000 miles

skandalouz

iTrader: (2)

are u serious? damn.. i thought my car was all fuked up getting only about 320 mpt.

NT2SHBBY

yeah....my 02 Altima with a 2.5 4 banger got 15mpg on 89 octane....but I got rid of it with 5k on it...not sure how it would fair when fully broken in.


Make sure you're running at least 91 octane though....

skandalouz

iTrader: (2)

i've been on chevron 93 since the day i bought it.. was thinking about BP 93 since i read somewhere that some guy was getting like 60+mpt with the BP over the chevron... could be bull****.. but imma try it out anyway...

NT2SHBBY

BP used to stand for British Petroleum, now since it was bought by Amoco, its now Beyond Petroleum..

I was told that Amoco is the best gas around....There is no Chevron in NYC that I know of, but from my experience 93 is 93....

2k2kev

your mileage depends more on your driving style than the brand of gas you use. I get about 420 miles per tank with 20% city/80% highway. I almost hit 500 on one trip (100% highway)... actually I think I would have hit 500 miles if the wife didn't freak about running out of gas.

try this... NEVER go over 3000 rpm, do not 'get on it' from lights/stop signs (even if you keep it under 3k rpm). Accelerate slowly, don't let the car stop if at all possible (like at a stop sign if there's a line, keep back far enough so you can roll all the way up to it instead of stopping/starting as each car goes through).

Do that for one whole tank and see what changes. This is not an uncommon tank for me:

skandalouz

iTrader: (2)

i dont drive it really hard. i drive about 40/60 street/hwy. i'll try what u said.. but i doubt i'll be getting into the 400s. i barely crack 300 rite now.

Loe max

iTrader: (6)

My driving is 60/40 city/highway. My last fill was at 239.6 miles and I filled 9.247 gallons. Turns out to be 25.91 mpg in mix driving. Most of my driving was done during rush hour and my rpms do hit 3,500rpms occasionally. BTW I'm a 3.0L

vito1281

My mileage sucks big time. I average about 260 miles per fillup. I usually fill up when the gas light comes on, so figure another 2-3 gallons left in there.

However, when I calculate the mpg manually, I get about 17-18mpg. My driving is 80/20 city/highway.

By the way, this mileage is with barely any hard driving. Most of the time when I'm just cruising along, I shift at 2-2.5k rpms. I do OCCASIONALLY bring it up higher, but not enough to seriously hamper mileage. Hopefully once the weather gets warmer, the mileage will improve.