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Color me most happy!!!
I'm a happy camper!
I have a Scan Gauge ll and it gives extremely accurate readouts, once it has received corrected data from fill ups, actual speed, and so forth.
Recently took a short trip, with rolling hills the norm. About 20% was backroads with a few traffic lights. About 80% was X-Way at 55 mph. The occational flat sections of road at 55mpg showed 31-35 mph. Average mileage for the trip (going) was 28.2 mpg.
Coming back I stepped up the speed to 60 on the X-way portion, and the average for that return trip was 26.7 mpg. The X-Way portion on flat ground was more like 28-33. This is 3+/- less than the same sections at 55mph.
Upon returning, I refilled the tank. The gallons used, total miles driven, as well as the MPG were dead on between the Scan Gauge, the gas pump, the odometer, and manually figuring the MPG.
Understanding mileage like this is nothing to get overly excited about for a Corolla. However this was done with a 4400#, 3.5 liter V6, 4wd, automatic, Honda Pilot pushing a lot of air. It has an EPA rating of 15/20 or something like that. Locally it is getting 19+/- mpg for the entire tank.
Driving conditions, weight of the drivers foot, and willingness of the driver all contribute to mileage. Hyper milers employ techniques that I personally would not.
For me, common sense and courtesy to others prevail. Example: If I'm on a 2 lane X-Way and traffic is moving fast, I will generally run the posted limit and stay in the RH lane. On local and back roads I generally run 5mph over the posted limit. If some jerk wants to ride my bumper, I will seek a way to let him pass. Nobody wins in a wreck!
Keep in mind, it is not that you pressed the peddle, but how you press the peddle. :shades:
Kip
The key thing is, "YMMV". Someone who averages 46 mpg may have a much different daily driving route than most other drivers.
I''ll be trading it in soon for a new Corolla, only because after 11 years the maintenance costs are starting to get significant...plus I just want a new car. :-)
Great car!
It would be interesting to learn what your mileage would be at 60 mph. It would only add 5 or 6 minutes to the drive.
Kip
Mpg for 2010 26-34
I was wondering why. I did notice that they changed the tire for 2010 from good years to bridgestones
MNF
since all the 2010's had the updated ecu programming already, some of us believe that is connected to the city and highway mpg going down by 1 mpg.
however, the manual transmission models in the base and s versions of the 2010 did not lose anything from their '09 rating, remaining at 26 city and 35 highway, so perhaps the manual transmissions werent afflicted w/ the oil consumption problem in the first place. i know one member got a response from toyota that they tweaked the testing to better comply with the epa requirements, thus resulting in the drop on the automatic tranny. it remains a mystery for now.
at any rate, i never had an oil consumption issue. i have the 5 speed manual and easily get 40+ mpg (calculated) on mostly suburban and hwy driving without making too much effort.
i will say that the computer mpg readout is fairly accurate compared to many other economy cars out there. my computer readout is consistently within .5-2 mpg off from my actual calculated mileage.
I think I would get better mileage with the smaller rims/narrower tires.
I drop 1 mpg (I think) when I use the air conditioner, which is rarely.
I plan to use the 0w-20 synthetic oil for fuel efficiency, and maximum oil flow in the engine during start-up. Personally, I wouldn’t use the 5w-30, because the dealer said it was OK. Factory fill and Toyota’s bottled Ow-20 is a full-synthetic made for Toyota. I hear the additive package was specially developed for Toyota. What could be better than a custom full synthetic oil.
I can only suggest keep tires inflated correctly, slower starts, no A.C., make sure spark plugs are okay(they should yet even if they're the originals yet).
So that was interesting, but I still lost MPG with the new tires. My mechanic added that most tire pressure targets are set for comfort – he suggested I target a pressure in the middle between what is on the door frame and the max. pressure shown on the tire. That meant, for me, going from 30PSI to 36PSI. That in fact raised my MPG from 28.5 to 31MPG and did make the ride a bit stiffer but still fine. Still not where I used to think I was with the old tires but I am thinking now that 2MPG difference was tire height difference.
On the highway I get about 38MPG (I used to think it was 41)
Some conclusions: use cruise control and drive at a moderate speed if MPG is important.
PS: And I've not had any problems with the car whatsoever!
Can I ask how do you like the EPS steering in your new Corolla?
she's had it about three months. I finally got around to having her begin to
check the mileage by noting miles driven between compete "to the top"
fillups & dividing by gallons. When she told me ahe was getting around
15 miles per gallon I told her to let Dad to it, as she obviously didn't
know what she was doing. I wish I could say she didn't. I filled it myself
for her last 2 fills and we're getting 15.7 mpg on a 4 cylinder Corolla.
Consistently. Checked the odometer accuracy and it seems to be
right on. Is this result even possible? No one seems to be stealing
her fuel as best we can tell (if they were they;re damn consistent
about precisely leaving us 15 mpg results) This now makes about
4 or 5 fills with that result. Note, it's about 90% city driving but that
still should be no where near this bad!?!?!? ps driving the car nothing
feels or sounds out of the ordinary. I'm an experienced driver.
I could have bought her a Suburban and be no worse off.
Swap cars with her for a tank and see what you get with hers and she gets with yours. That will be the best test.