Hyundai Entourage Gas Mileage
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Second tank - 20.3 mpg about the same percentages above
Third tank - 23.1 mpg about 80% highway, 20% city
I'm hoping that Hyundai decides to reevaluate the fuel map that this vehicle is programmed with and provide updates to owners that complain hard enough. Mazda has had to do this with their RX-8. If an auto maker is rushing a vehicle to market, their best bet would be to run the engine rich to ensure smooth running engines under all conditions and climates. This comes with a price however since the excess fuel is not get converted into energy and is lost through the tail pipe. With additional time and understanding of the vehicle, a leaner fuel map can be provided that works for the majority of owners. On the other hand, the vehicle may just be a hog.
As for your question... Yes all of the Hyundais I have had started out with awfull gas milage. By the first oil change my averages have always gotten more inline with expectations. Our Entourage is averaging 18-20 mpg a tank with a mixed routine of town & highway. We rarely go anywhere with serious stop and creep city trafic.
Also...don't forget to reset the mpg display with each fill up. It tends to be more acurate this way.
So to determine onger term gas mileage (one tank or more) with the Entourage, owners cannot rely upon the comnputer. Of the few gizmos in the Entourage, the trip computer needs redesign.
26 pretty standard for trips.
I have some tricks to help keep that up, but even towing a house trailer I got 17 MPG in mountains.
Now at 11,500 miles we get 16city/21hwy. Its getting better. You should start seeing an improvement. Also, watch your octane. With current gas prices what they are it can be realtempting to go with regular. Lower octane equates to less performance. Use at least 89. We do and include an octane booster additive every other fill-up.
Basically you have to use your gas pedal as your brake more than your brakes. Follow at a proper distance so you can let up on your gas pedal to slow down rather than following close and having to use your brake when traffic slows; take your foot off the gas as you approach red lights; etc.
You bought a big van. It's not going to get the mileage of a small sedan (but it holds a whole lot more). Also, engines don't get broken in in the first thousand miles or so. I don't understand how people can wring their hands and claim deception and threaten lawsuits because they don't get Kia Rio mileage out of a large van with a few thousand miles on the engine.
The gas gauge seems to be discouraging a range of more than 340 miles, or is it just set up to scare us into buying gas before it is less than 20% full?
85% highways / country (fast) roads / 15% cities & towns. Almost totally with A/C on.
First 150 miles near my home, showing off to friends, at least 20 ignition cycles - 16.7 mpg
Last 59 miles 20% city, 80% Hwy, trip computer says 23.7 mpg.
I am from Texas. I get to drive out in the country a lot, and I know that helps. I also need to not step on it very much. Today I had a tank full just barely over 20.0 MPG. (I drive about 1000 miles a week, doing service work). My "old" Grand Caravan got 22 - 23 MPG, with a 3.3 liter V6. I hope to be able to match that with the Hyundai.
I had a 2000 Voyager with the same engine. Big difference in performance with the Hyundai Wouldn't you agree?
Interstate at 70-75mph, cruse control, brand new engine and still has to go through the "break in" period - 26.9mpg
Commute to work this morning, got stoped at every light! 8 miles on city streets between 35-50mph. The compuuter was reset while travelling at 55 on a free way. Mpg reading started at 33mpg and stayed high untill I hit a battery of lights, final reading at work was 22.3mpg.
People from my work came out to look at it, it was started and left running several times without moving and this brought the average mpg down to 12.9mpg.
The computer seems to calculate every 30-60seconds based on the fuel used and the distance travelled during this period and adding it into the average since the computer was last reset. If your running the car for long periods without moving your mpg is going to be bad. Try my way of calculating and see what you get, I'm more than happy.
The mileage numbers quoted on the window sticker are spot on and probably a tad conservative I would say!!
A word on the MPG computer. It averages fuel consumption, and when new, the vehicle basically reads 0 mpg. So, you can reset it, and it should show a current average. I own a 2005 Ford Taurus, and when I picked it up, it read about 13 mpg. The computer on it is not resettable, so over the course of about a year, MPG slowly crept up to its current stable 22 mpg around town.
For your own piece of mind, don't use the computer. Just calculate it manually. Start with a full tank, and a trip odometer set to zero. Then check the gallons you buy at your next fill up and divide it into the miles driven. You'll probably be happier.
I'm understanding the computer better now. It is actually kind of fun monitoring my changing mpg. It has prompted me to be lighter on the gas pedal. We averaged the "old fashioned way," and calculated 29 mpg on a 300 miles round trip, all highway, to LA. Thanks for your input
I get 26 mpg on the highway. Somedays, when my wife uses the van to drop kids at bus stop (when it is raining), the engine is idling for 5-10 minutes and the bus stop is 150 feet from my house, I do get numbers like 12.7 mpg. If you hit a busy street with lots of shopping/malls on a saturday and hit a red light at each intersection, you'd probably get the same 12.7 mpg. That to me is as atypical as cruising at 80 mph with headwinds for 21-22 mpg instead of 65-70 mph for 25-26 mpg.
Avoid high traffic roads, peak hour rush and excessive idling at stop lights, your city mpg will easily creep up to 19-20 mpg.
Did my first long drive in my galaxy black limited with 1000 miles on odo (currently 2700 miles) from Cincinnati to Jersey City and back via Penna turnpike. We invited my parents for the trip and they joined us.
Cincinnati to NJ heading east:
628 miles total, 6 people aboard (4 adults & 2 children) plus all the luggage for 1 week trip (900 lbs total including luggage)
24.2 mpg on plains with helpful tail winds
21.6 mpg on mountains with numerous ups, downs and twists.
All driving done at 75 mph on cruise control and 92F heat
NJ to Cinti heading west:
Strong headwinds, cloudy skies, averaged 22.4 mpg on plains and 20.8 mpg up in the mountains also in low 90's temperature.
Pleased overall. After coming back home I took my van to a car wash and grocery shopping for this week with wife and lo!! average went up to 26.2 mpg on a 40 mile hwy round trip
The on board computer registered 16.9 MPG and I thought this was fairly good. Considering having stop and go traffic for the majority of the trip and having to climb hilly roads - I rally couldn't expect more from this vehicle.
The car had about 900 miles on it when we did this trip.
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I've gotten better MPG numbers (23-25 MPG) on the computer on local trips using state highways traveling between 50-60 mph.