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Wow, It's amazing what some warm temps and a little practice has done for my numbers lately.:) I had 111.6 over 20.9 miles today taking my wife to work and coming home. I'm off this week for summer shutdown. The temperature was 72F and the wind was S@ <5 mph with 88% humidity.

Camry's radiator replaced yesterday.

Then went to friend's house:

37.66 MPG / 63.31 miles (198.21% of EPA)

Back home:

37.19 MPG / 59.29 miles (195.73% of EPA)
:Banane27:

Tuesday: Pretty much the best commute I have had so far

33.4 MPG / 11.0 Miles home to work
29.8 MPG / 13.0 Miles work to home

Today:

I guess I should never complain about anything > 30 MPG in this thing but two traffic lights that I normally make which are both on the long down hills I glide down killed what could have been great numbers.

30.9 MPG / 11.0 Miles home to work
28.9 MPG / 13.0 Miles work to home

I ran out of gas. :D I planned it, and had my 2 gallon gas can in the back. I added that, then drove to the station for the rest of the fill. Filled the 2 gallons first, then the rest of my tank to topoff.

1114.0 miles / 13.84 gallons = 80.5 mpg :D :woot:
If I'm not mistaken, that's the longest gas-powered tank. (non hybrid, non diesel)

The new tank sits at 84.8 mpg / 10.3 miles. It's E10 gas :(, unlike the tank above. We'll see how that affects the numbers.

WTG Andrew!!! :woot:

A smashing good tank, young chap!

Heh. British >.>

Nice going, Andrew! You beat me. :D:thumbs_up:

Thanks, Sean.

I played games for that last 0.4 miles. There's a steep hill that it would not climb. I got halfway up, then coasted backwards down and partway up the previous hill. Fired it up and got a downhill running start to climb again as high as I could. Then rolled back again, then rolled forward to a stop.

I really really dislike my car when it's running low. Pulse and glide, bump-start, stumble sputter sputter sputter roar! Then pulse again. Stumble and sputter on uphills as well. Unless I have a good chance of beating 1114, I will not be running it dry again.

My Elantra and the Insight both got a little squirrelly at the limits, too... but neither gave issues firing up.

I'm unlikely to try to top your record as I just don't want to spend that much gas for the distance when my Insight will do it on so much less.

Well done and well deserved congratulations!

;) I hoped you would say that about driving the Elantra. :D

One more thing. I'm not sweating it, but I put 2.1 gallons (0.1 extra) into my gas can before I noticed and stopped the pump. That is included in my numbers posted.

Bad news on the Insight.:( I was on the way to pick up my wife and I started hearing a really bad thumping coming from the right rear. A section of tread separated from the tire and is flopping against the fender skirt. I hit a really nasty bump on one of Cincinnati's wonderful interstates over the weekend.:rolleyes: I'm getting a new set of Potenza's tomorrow and a full alignment Monday. In the excitement, I forgot to record the number when I got back to the driveway. I do remember that it was at 145 plus when I stopped to see what was wrong. The cool part was that it still has air but the bad part is that I can't go over 15 mph.;)

Very hot and humid today. If my A/C was connected, I may have been tempted to use it. I disconnected it in Jan and still haven't connected it back up yet. 98F and sunny/hazy with winds from the NW @ 5mph

- 52.3mpg for 35.3 miles from home to New Balance/LL Bean store
- 47.4mpg for 34.8 miles from stores to home

Day total: 49.8mpg over 70.3 miles

The tank is up to 48.9mpg over 239.4 miles with 8.1 gallons remaining.

nothing for monday
nothing for tuesday

home > work
- 23.9 / 13.4 miles (71F SE@3)

work> home
- 24.4 / 13.2 miles (85F Calm)

daily avg - 24.1 / 26.6 miles

Tank is just under 3/8 on 322.3 miles
ETE is at 545 miles ~ 24.8 miles MPG still.

Made a time to go on a ride with a friend at church this Sat morning ~14 miles on my Giant OCR3, first real ride of this year. My behind will be sore on Sunday. ;) But, very good MPG's :D

Back at the grind this morning! Sorry to hear about your tire, Larry. :(

62F, 3mph tailwind from the NW, clear:


115.8mpg for 22.4mi (Home to work)

The tank is steady at 114.6mpg over 1325.3mi with 4 of 20 bars remaining on the fuel gauge.

Back at the grind this morning! Sorry to hear about your tire, Larry. :(

62F, 3mph tailwind from the NW, clear:


115.8mpg for 22.4mi (Home to work)

The tank is steady at 114.6mpg over 1325.3mi with 4 of 20 bars remaining on the fuel gauge.

Thanks Sean. I ended up losing about half of the tread but it never did go flat. Since my son works at a tire store (where I'm going later to get the new tires), he said it would be best to take the valve core out in case it would try to explode on the way to his shop. Now for the scrubbing/breaking in of the new tires.:(

I went out to roll up my windows and wrote down the numbers for the final trip for yesterday. Not too bad. The day ended up at 108.8 mpg for the day.
111.6 20.9-to wife's work and back
77.9 1.4-to bank
109.5 5.4-bank to tire failure then back home

Good Morning All.

Nothing to report.

Anxious about this Saturday.

Good Morning All.

Nothing to.... (loop)

Commute was better today than yesterday. I notice that I'm hitting good mileage despite a string of hitting lights I normally could make it through so I think removing the roof rack from the van is having a pretty positive effect. Had my best commute back home ever. 31.4 MPG! Almost better than my trek to work today!

31.8 MPG / 11.0 Miles home to work
31.4 MPG / 13.0 Miles work to home

78.2 home
95.1 this morning

The young tank is at 82.3 / 40 miles.

home>work
= 21.1 / 13.3 miles (72F Calm with Heavy rain and TStorms)

work>home
= 25.2 / 13.1 miles (81F Calm with light rain once I got about 2 miles from home)

daily avg - 23.1 / 26.4 miles

tank is at 3/8 with 348.7 miles
ETE is down to 542 miles with 193 miles left to go (down to 24.6 MPG)

Long day. Lots of Loonies on the road making life hard... and dangerous. :p

81F, 10-19mph cross/headwind from the W, sunny:


118.4mpg for 22.4mi (Work to home)


82F, 10mph cross/tailwind from the WNW, sunny:


105.2mpg for 18.2mi (Home to Church... I really dislike dinner time rush hour)


77F, 10mph cross/headwind from the W, sunny/clear:


109.7mpg for 18.3mi (Church to home -- where'd all those people come from?!? :confused:)

The tank is steady at 114.6mpg over 1384.4mi with 3 of 20 bars remaining on the fuel gauge.

Day Total: 112.5mpg over 81.5mi

Whatever happened to following the speed limits? I don't understand the mentality that says it is okay to drive 50+mph in a 35mph zone. :ccry:

Another 163 miles on 2.93g for 55.6MPG in 90 degree heat and light rain. Brings my Bandit miles to 1250 and total motorcycle rubber time to 1500+, all this summer.

61F, no wind, partly cloudy:


115.3mpg for 22.4mi (Home to work)

The tank is steady at 114.6mpg over 1406.8mi with 2 of 20 bars remaining on the fuel gauge.

Not bad for a drive every day to wherever tank...

78F, partly cloudy
4 mph from E
Home -> McDo
34.37 mpg / 20.89 miles (180.894% of EPA)

McDo->Work
42.76 mpg / 2.15 miles (225.05% of EPA)

Got appointment to see Honda Civic HX tomorrow! :hope:

Didn't have as good a commute this morning but had to make a small stop on the way to work to pick up some stuff.

30.5 MPG / 12.3 Miles home to walmart to work

87.0 mpg / 10.7 mi home
85.0 / 9.0 to music practice
77.7 / 9.0 back home, late and had to use headlights
91.0 / 10.7 this morning

The tank is at 81.7 / 90 miles.

It seems that NC remembered their happy pills today... I had people actually following me at 9-5 MPH under the upper limit. And they did so because they actually wanted to. Bizarre.

* 61.3 over 47 miles into the office @ 82F

Tough traffic today with a headwind.

83F, 7mph cross/headwind from the WNW, sunny:


120.3mpg for 23.0mi (Work to home)

The tank is still steady at 114.6mpg over 1429.8mi with 2 of 20 bars remaining on the fuel gauge.

Day Total: 117.7mpg over 45.4mi

I had to rebuild my computer after my last post:(

yesterdays numbers

home>work
= 23.9 / 13.4 miles (72F Calm)

work>home
= 26.7 / 13.1 mile (85F N@10)

daily avg = 25.3 / 26.5 miles

tank is just under 1/4 with 375.2 miles
ETE is up to 543 mile with 168 miles to go (back up to ~24.7 MPG)

Oh and the ride this morning GREAT (16.07 miles in 65 minutes with and avg of 14.6 MPH, kind of slow but I have not been out in a while)

I got 1999 Honda Civic HX 5MT TODAY!!!

Woo woo!!

Will need to go to motor vehicle dept this week to get new owner title, license plate and blah.

Images will be in my new thread.

Congrats!! :woot:

Yesterday afternoon on my usual commute I had a LOL moment: I passed a car when FASed :D

It happened on a slight downhill where Teresa can more or less hold a steady 60km/h (by the speedo) without the help of the engine and the car I passed wasn't going faster than 50 (by my speedo, again).

But I can't tell an average for this week, the low fuel light hasn't come out yet (it won't be worse than 2.93l/100km=80.2mpgUS).