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1st tank -- 30.1 MPG (100% A/C, 80% City/20% Freeway)
2nd tank -- 34.2 MPG (60% A/C, 80% City/20% Freeway)
I've read on another Yaris forum that it depends on how you drive your Yaris. My Yaris prefers going 80 mph on the freeway. I've toned it down to 70 mph with some sections where I go 75 mph.
I have a 2006 Honda EX Coupe, Auto trans, with Nav, and only drive the city. No highway driving period. I got about 25 mpg when brand new, and now get 26.7 miles per gallon with 3,000 miles on it, and use the air part of the day in a lot of stop, and go traffic. Was thinking of the Yaris at one point, but will hold off my next purchase until a better hybrid car comes along.
Your gas mileage will improve over time, but its a dissapointment for those that are getting about what I get
Mike
When I'm driving around town and it's not too hot outside (over 90 degrees needs A/C during some parts of the day) I have the windows down. Once I get on the freeway I roll up my windows. I think one of the biggest reasons my MPG has improved was I used the A/C less on the second tank.
Also the ethanol laced gas is a load of hooey. even if we are...which I seriously doubt...it wouldn't be that high of a percentage, so it would not be reducing my mpg this dramatically.
I'm pissed and my dealership will be hearing about it until I see an improvement. :lemon:
I think it's the nature of the beast. A low horsepower engine with an automatic getting up to speed with AC drawing some of that power is lousy for gas mileage. A more powerful 6 or 8-cyl doesn't strain as much in the city and shows less of a drop in mileage.
My 2nd tank in ALL stop & go city-26.7 MPG. My car is the 3 door liftback auto trans. This car SUCKS with numbers like this! I also only used the a/c about 50-60% of the time. I DO understand summer fuel blends etc, but I want my "REAL" car back!
Look for mine going up for sale on San Diego Craiglist! I am NOT kidding either.....
Mike
Driving in WI where gas prices are $3.17
first tank- about 33 mpg
second tank- about 34 mpg
third tank- about 33 mpg
fourth tank- about 37 mpg
However, we made the dumb mistake of driving in 3rd gear for about the first week, buzzing along on the highways. I was so upset at first until I realized our mistake (thanks to another Yaris forum here).
-ALSO, you should never use overdrive "in town" as it is hard on brakes AND the transmission. You probably know this already (?), but just checking as a retired Service Manager....
Sure wish I had your results! Now I have Yaris envy.....
Mike :-)
Your type of driving is not conducive to high mileage numbers. You can't compare to the others on this forum that have mixed driving or mostly highway. Stop-and-go with short trips isn't likely to get you much more than mid-to-high twenties with an automatic.
Wait 'til winter with warm-ups and a richer fuel mixture -- those short trips will probably cost a couple of MPGs as well.
It's highly unlikely that you and others with poor fuel economy have "duds" -- it's the type of driving plus nearly-new cars that aren't even close to being broken in. You probably won't see maximum MPG until after 10,000 miles or so, from my experience.
Mike
Kevin
In most US Cities that are less urbanized should be just fine. But in MY "WARZONE" of airheads & gridlock, NO way! And during engine break in, the engine braking is IMPORTANT for both the motor AND trans to break in properly by NOT using the Overdrive if at all possible (in MY road condtions).
Mike
I just filled up today. I got 24mpg! thats down from the first fill up of 27! Im SUPER pissed off.
I had the guy at the gas station check my tires and the two back tires were low. he filled it up and i do notice a difference in the drive (must smoother over bumps). So could this explain the terrible Mpg ive been getting??
I got gas again today so I'm adding to my list of fill ups. Keep in mind these are estimates on percentage of A/C, City, Hwy Use. I don't actually log each trip made with my car. I do figure out how many miles it takes to do my regular trips on the freeway and I jot down freeway miles when I go to new places.
1st tank -- 30.1 MPG (100% A/C, 80% City/20% Freeway)
2nd tank -- 34.2 MPG (60% A/C, 80% City/20% Freeway)
3rd tank -- 36.7 MPG (80% A/C, 45% City/55% Freeway)
I don't blame all of you who are upset about your mpg in the 20s. So disappointing! Just as an update, we are getting about 35 mpg average lately with the automatic trans. Lots of highway driving- with the air on probably about 3/4 of the time.
But I wanted to return to the question some of you have been responding to... I am still a bit worried that I drove it in overdrive for its first week. I was wondering if any of you out there might tell me any of the consequences of that- or anything I can do now to make sure that I didn't screw anything up too bad. (Frankly, I don't even know what overdrive is for- the dealer said something about using it for towing the car?)
Thanks in advance for your help.
-Emelia
I just did my first oil change and used synthetic oil - maybe that will help.
Mike
And for the record, there are a LOT of folks getting MY results as well and I doubt we are all idiots......
The two biggest factors affecting mileage are:
1. Driving style;
2. Where you drive (city or freeway, freeflowing or congested, lot of idling or verry little).
You've assured us that you aren't a "jackrabbit" style driver and read the road ahead. So it has to be your local driving conditions.
BTW, I used to assume I was the consummate freeway driver - 35 miles to work, relatively free flowing traffic, short distances from freeway to offramp at each end. I fly on the freeway, so I expected to see mph on my trip computer reading high. Instead it was 43 mph with ONLY my commute, dropping to 37 mph average if I threw in some weekend errands.
So I guess the "city" miles impact the overall picture pretty strongly.
I reiterate - your 26.1 mpg on city driving only is great. My former Scion xA stick shift (very similar weight and almost identical engine), driven on my freeway commute, returned between 33-35 mpg per tank - and since the car was covered all day, I hardly used the aircon. I suspect you have an automatic and use the aircon to cool the car down after being in the sun. That is another mileage factor.
Finally, as to your comments about other drivers being on drugs in reporting mileage, I think that metaphorically you are right. We tend to calculate inexactly, round numbers, and don't have consistent fill habits (same gas pump at the same station, same direction car, let it fill and auto shut off, jam hose back in and let it autoshutoff a second time - you have to jam the nozzle way down to avoid an overfill that will soak your charcoal evaporative filter). When I started saving every gas receipt, using a calculator to figure out individual refills, then averaging over many tanks, my "mileage" wasn't what I thought it was.
I think at this point you are taking a different drug from the "high mileage reporters". They were on Optimism, you are on Disappointment - cognitive dissonance. But I think if want to settle this for good, subscribe online to Consumer Reports and see their real, carefully calibrated test results for REAL city mileage, REAL steady state freeway cruising (this number is actually way high) and 150 mile freeway trip. THEN your Yaris mileage will come out smelling like a rose.
are you saying you get 46 city? fantastic.
If lhanson is driving conservatively and lucynthel is not, you would expect lucy's mileage to be perhaps 25% worse, which would be 28.5. Subtract 1 point for AT vs MT and you are at 27.5 - very much in the ballpark, as it were.
That is before you get to driving PATTERN - is every drive 2-3 miles, with cold starts in between? Or are there longer drives in lhanson's routine, but not in lucy's? Stuff like that. With these little engines, my experience has always been that actual mileage can vary a lot depending on driving style and pattern.
2014 Mini Cooper (stick shift of course), 2016 Camry hybrid, 2009 Outback Sport 5-spd (keeping the stick alive)
There can be very wide variables in city driving. You could supposedly get as low as 0 mpg, if you never moved, with the engine running. However traffic does move some. It is how you drive when it is moving that determines your mileage.
My wife has driven about half of my miles and kept the same records for me. We both have similiar results on mileage. Highway driving though, we don't wait around. If traffic is moving 75, we are going 75.
So far I have been pleased with results. I think we can break 40 if 100% highway, and keep speed down. I do have my tires inflated to 35.
Oops, there went the LAST of my "manhood".....
Mike out.
Hmmmmmm.........folks are doing the same thing with the Honda Fit - buying them and then marking them up for resale. I hate when individual models are this scarce, gets people doing some dubious things.
2014 Mini Cooper (stick shift of course), 2016 Camry hybrid, 2009 Outback Sport 5-spd (keeping the stick alive)
If he had the power package with alloys, I might have made him an offer $1000 lower though...
:-)
2014 Mini Cooper (stick shift of course), 2016 Camry hybrid, 2009 Outback Sport 5-spd (keeping the stick alive)
You can get a Magnaflow exhaust very inexpensively at most muffler shops, to get the sound you are looking for, or you can buy a TRD muffler for the Scion xA, which is tuned for this family of motors. Personally I liked the growl of the Yaris Liftback I drove.
You're pretending to have cancer? Huh?
2014 Mini Cooper (stick shift of course), 2016 Camry hybrid, 2009 Outback Sport 5-spd (keeping the stick alive)