is 350 miles a tank normal for an automatic??? just wondering back here......thx guys

 

If I drive mostly highway after a full tank, I get between 350 to 370 miles. That's normal for me. And I tend to drive between 70MPH to 80MPH whenever traffic allows. I have an automatic too.

Peace.

 

I'd say it's actually pretty good for mixed city/highway traffic.
for city only: awesome.
for freeway only: it ok

you choose which one applies to you the most

 

If I drive only freeway, I can get well over 400 miles on a tank, but if there is city driving mixed in (which is the norm) I get 360-370 as well.

 

Damn, I only get 250 miles a tank.


~limsandy

 

350 sounds about right. I get around 350 city/highway driving.

 

me too! haha... i think im going to get my self some BG44k

 

I get about 320 a tank. I drive about a 50/50 split of city and freeway so I think you're about right.

 

been planning on that for long now

btw, I get 270-280 on tank summer time (70% city driving)
and 250-260 winter

 

I was wondering, is the 2000 gas tank smaller than the newer models? I'm happy when I get 250 before the gas light. What is the size on the 2000 model?

 

2000 - 18.5 gallons. I never put it more then 16.5 gallons. I think you have about 3 gallons left when the light comes on. 250 / 15 = ~16.7 mpg. Yea, that's not too good. Try them injector cleaners, new fuel filter, air filter. might help

 

18.5 Gallons...

 

hehe, auto 2k2 here...all city, most of my trips are less than 15 minute drives and during the winter i get like 160ish to the tank....

 

i get 380 and i drive mostly city, when i do weekend driving on the highway the number goes to 400+

 

My wife has the same basic drive and still gets 300 miles easily per tank in the city...

 

Past 2 tanks I've gotten just over 300. That's because I just got my car and did a good amount of beating

 

Right now, 200miles is a big accomplishment. Can't wait for the weather to get better.

 

I usually get ~350 per 15.5 gallons for highway and local.

 

is the trip computer for mpg pretty accurate? if so, i get around 21.5 mpg on 70% city/30% hiway and around 28 mpg on 100% hiway.

350 miles per tank sounds about right.

 

the computer isn't accruate...$30,000 calculator that can't divide....but it makes you feel better!

 

I'd thought you guys get more mpg, but my 92 max gets the same mpg city/hwy as you guys do, 330-350 city and close to 400 hwy.

But I would trade that for any of your guys' cars, ANY.

any takers/offers?

 

NO NO NO you dont, not unless you drive 20 mph dude. I dont mean to geat you mad or anything but I drive mostly city and get between 260-270 a tank. With some weekend driving on the interstate I can go 320 or so. Dont pull my leg man, unless your calculator is wrong or youre not figuring it correctly those figures are not correct.

 

whaaaa?? i got a 2k & im barely hittin 300mi. wha do u think the prob is??? O2 sensors???

all that wasted money on gas

 

Well divide this and tell me what the math is...

515.7 / 16.62 = 31.02 MPG

That's what I got on the very first road trip I took with my car (it was all of 2 days old when I made the trip). I set the cruise for 10 over the entire way from Georgia to Kansas. That was my first tank of gas...

 

I'm lucky to get 220 on a tank. I do a pretty fair amount of highway driving and during the week all I'm doing is driving 10-15 min from school to work to home

 

i guess it may differ on how we define "city"...i'm in boston, where it's cold enough that my temperature guage doesn't even get to the middle till i'm all the way at my destination...

 

Heres what I gathered on the last few fillups:
90% of the driving was the same on all fillups
and most of that was done at or below 50 MPH
And all on 92 octane gas.
Ran a tank of gas with 2 bottles of Techron down to
about 1/8 of tank left, but no low fuel light?
Results per computer 288 miles driven, DTE: 54, MPG: 22.3
Took 14.3 gallons to fill= 20.14 MPG.
Second fillup: 243.3 miles on 13.221 gallons
DTE :67, MPG 22.2, actual 18.4 MPG.
Third fillup 272 miles on 13.3 gallons
DTE:66 MPG 23.3, actual MPG: 20.45
First of all, when does the light come on?
Second if we truely have 18.5 gallon tank and computer says DTE is say 67 at 22.2 MPG,with 13.22 gallon fillup, 67 divided by 22.2 = 3.01 add that to the 13.2 it took to fill and you get only 16.2.
So either we got a smaller than 18.5 gallon tank
or there is about a 2 gallon reserve left in the tank .

 

I drive a good combinaton of both city and highway. My last tank, which it has been about the same since I bought the car, I got 273.00 miles to the tank. I only drive until the quarter mark, which is 13.271 gallons by the Mobil pump. there for I get 20.57 mpg.

 

Oh yea I know our cars can get Excellent milage when driven only on the highway. Im just saying that there is no way he (jeepik) is getting 380 miles on a tank of gas doing just city driving. No Way!!

 

Do not use the car's trip computers to calculate any part of your mileage. They are so far off that it's not even funny. You have to do it the old fashioned way (by hand, using what we know to be facts).

Your tank in a 5th Gen holds 18.5 gallons. That is a fact. The gas light comes on when there is approximately 3-3.5 gallons of gas left in the tank. That is an approximation that we use as fact. Now, the trip computer that actually just keeps overall driven mileage/tank is the one thing that you will use (fact). Take that, divide it by the number of gallons you fill with each and every time you fill, and that is your approximate mileage. DTE is wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy off, just like the fuel mileage calculator in our cars. You can not use it for any factoring. Just keep it simple (distance driven on tank divided by number of gallons at fill up equals approximate MPG of that particular tank of gas...)

I know you all know this already, but I'm just putting it down for the hell of it anyways...

 

Well, my gas gauge doesn't work, for some reason it says I'm full all the time, so I go by the miles. At 300 miles I'll go and fill it up. I'm sure I can go another 25-50 miles but since I do HWY and CITY driving, your just never sure.

 

DTE is hardly accurate, I drove about 75-80 miles with it blinking --, You know it blinks that when it thinks you are out of gas. So I wouldnt go by that.

And yes me and my wife are both performance oriented drivers and neither one of us baby the MAX.. I know I could get better milage but considering the driving we do and our habits with the car I am satisfied w/18 or so mpg for mainly city driving. Also I must add that winter gas down here in the south SUCKS. Our milage sometimes went as low as 14 mpg.

 

Our winter gas sucks goat cheese as well here in GA. Very noticable difference in performance and mileage...

 

How are you getting around 250 on a tank?!?! Slamming the gas pedal down to the floor every time is hardly necessary... and neither is getting to the speed limit as fast as possible... ease up (we all know the car is fairly fast, no need to re-assure yourself every time you star to move), you'll end up with a fatter wallet. At one point, I believe I was able to add the DTE and odometer reading and get 500+.

 

all of you guys, getting bad gas milage (including myself) - EASY ON THE GAS PEDAL!!!

 

W O R D ! ! ! !

 

I am lucky to get 300 miles out of a tank. I drive more hwy than city. I think about 340 is my best.

Dave
02 Maxima SE w/lead shoes

 

For you all getting 200-275/tank, you need to check you maxima. You should easily get 300-350 miles on the tank.

 

miles travelled on a tank have nothing to do with actual MPG. One can drive his car all the way till his tank is almost empty and say, hey, i'm getting 300 miles a tank, while another can drive it only until the gas light comes up and read it that way. So to be more accurate, use MPG. also, heavier wheels, driving style, temperature, mods and bunch of other stuff can affect your gas milage.

 

Congratulations...you just stated what we had already established earlier in this thread. It is sound advice, however...

Miles driven on that particular tank divided by number of gallons you filled up with after driving said tank...that's thte ONLY way to do it.