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It's the last week of August!

I induced a 12V disconnect recal when I got home on Friday to see if it would change assist behavior in the Insight... All that happened was significantly lower mileage while it charged this morning, though. :(

77F (75% humidity), 12mph headwind from the S, overcast:


90.0mpg for 14.9mi (Home to work)

The tank is now down to 109.5mpg over 1155.9mi with 6 of 20 bars remaining on the fuel gauge.

Interestingly, the car now seems to favor 20 bars SoC? I have to decide whether I want to throw away more fuel in an attempt to chase down this "problem" (no more than 5 bars of assist if the pedal is floored :rolleyes:) by running through the more aggressive "idle at 3500RPM" relearn procedure. I don't "need" the assist but the fact that the car doesn't behave like other Insights (so I'm told) does put a question mark in play.

90.7 mpg this morning. The tank is up to 82.9 mpg / 98 miles. Still well above F.

Monday morning fog in the head, though. Humph.

It's the last 2 days of summer. :(

We had our usual 2-up east trip on Friday-Saturday (it's almost like a commute for us just it's 240-300km long one way, mostly main roads this time), and the tank having this trip came out surprisingly well: its average became 2.666l/100km = 88.2mpgUS. In spite of riding 2-up, much on level roads!

While we were there, a sudden change in weather happened. We travelled there on a dry, sunny, hot summer afternoon (temp was over 30C = 86+F); the way back began in slight rain, then it stopped but we got sidewind instead, and the temp dropped considerably, to ~16C = 61F. Today morning it was 6-9C (43-48F) while I was coming to my workplace. I'm curious what FE I'll get with this tank.

From traffic status this morning, summer is gone... :( but it's remaining one month to summer challenge :)

odo currently at 1792km = 1113mi. I resisted yesterday and this noon to go behind the steering wheel only to drive enough to beat Andrew and fill-up the car... Hope the traffic and colder temps (22°C=71°F instead of 35°C=95°F) will not make me empty the tank before filling-up on the way back home. At least my FAS kill switch should help me to save drops, drops, drops...

Denis, monitoring traffic to leave work before taking the risk to be caught in a traffic jam.

:p Good luck on stretching that tank. Wayne still has me beat with a diesel, and Sean with a hybrid. Maybe you can get the best diesel tank, though. http://www.cleanmpg.com/forums/images/icons/icon14.gif

Lunchtime errands. I had to buy a trap for the armadillo that's tearing up my garden.

76.7 / 5.1 miles - first store, nothing in stock.
85.6 / 0.6 - second store, got it. On sale, even!
95.6 / 4.9 - back to work.

Andrew, I'll do my best at next tank to beat Wayne's record.

Last year I did a 68.74MPG in September while the record was then at 69.06.

I have to improve from my last 72.34MPG to 74.89 to reach Wayne's record with same amount of fuel, or 73.81 with the maximum fuel amount I already filled-up. With the brand new kill switch, my pumped-up tires and my wife forbidden to touch my car I hope to improve by more than 3.5%

At least I'll have a lot of fun :)

Denis.

Go, Denis, go!!! :woot:

Looks like I really shortchanged this work route of mine. I just blew away my last PR (set last Friday :rolleyes:) by a solid 6.4mpg :D

90F (95F heat index), 18-28mph tailwind from the SSE, sunny:


115.6mpg for 15.3mi (Work to home -- Boo-ya! ;))

The tank is back up to 109.7mpg over 1171.3mi with 6 of 20 bars remaining on the fuel gauge.

Day Total: 101.2mpg over 30.3mi

That day total is lousy, but I guess that's what I get for forcing a recal today. :rolleyes:

home>school>work
= 23.4 / 15.0 miles (75F S@7) different route, not going that way again, to long, late for work

work>home
= 26.2 / 13.1 miles (93F S@12)

daily avg = 24.7 / 28.1 miles
tank is above 1/4 with 340.2 miles

The drive in was once again tough...38.6 avg over 77.6 mi. Trip home was 46.2 mpg avg over 79.4 mi.I didn't do to much once again because people are just plain stupid and follow so close. I don't want to be the reason someone rear ends someone else or me!:eek: What a spread! I got my ebh figured out it was a faulty egg timer the cord was hooked to so we will see if it will kick off a good run in the AM for me. :rolleyes:

I'm curious what FE I'll get with this tank.

It became far worse than the last four... 3.23l/100km, 72.7mpgUS.

Well, a couple of factors for the drop:

lower temps
some wet roads (it was raining again yesterday afternoon, while going home)
Because of these I literally feel her coasting worse, today it needed an extra start to park because my usual momentum ran out before I could turn in the parking lot :eek:
Some sidewind - also annying...
More weight: ~80-90% 2-up instead of the ~40% of my last tank; I also loaded the topcase full of books...
Lighter traffic: the way back was on a Saturday evening instead of Friday afternoon, when the slower flow let me go slower too and P&G a bit more :D It's true though that then I slowed down because of the darkness ;)

I've got rain here, too!!

68F, 7mph headwind from the S, raining with a fair amount of standing water:


103.4mpg for 15.0mi (Home to work)

The tank is back down to 109.5mpg over 1186.4mi with 5 of 20 bars remaining on the fuel gauge.

The Metro is doing better but is still not back to full glory but I'm getting closer. Had a decent commute to work. Had one of my better commutes back to home.

61.5 MPG / 11.0 Miles home to work
59.6 MPG / 12.1 Miles work to home

88.1 mpg home, with a strange gusty side-head-side-tail wind.
83.2 this morning. Stupid traffic. *

The tank is at 83.5 / 130 miles.

* example: Approaching a red light with about 20 cars lined up. I'm maybe 5 car lengths back, rolling slowly. I get a honk from behind to "hurry up". ??? :confused: Of all the times someone has honked at me, that's the LEAST reasonable one yet.

Did 650 miles, refilled last Saturday, LOST receipt before I can log into my mileage log :(

*crying*

I'm trying to enjoy my last day of summer.

Don't think I will be driving today.

Using the wife's car for today since my ZX2 is out of commision for the time being. Her Mazda 3 surprised me with 50.5 mpg over 40.3 miles. But the SG is still calibrated to my ZX2 so I don't know how accurate that reading was.

LinuxGold: If you paid with a credit card and can remember how much you paid per gallon you should be able to figure out how many gallons you pumped from your credit card statement. I have had to do that before. Luckily I remembered the price per gallon and the mileage.

Left late because GasX and I got together for a bit to chat about cars and hypermiling. :)

I hit some pretty bad stop and creep, but I pulled through okay.

81F, 8mph headwind from the NW, overcast:


111.6mpg for 15.3mi (Work to home)

The tank is steady at 109.5mpg over 1201.7mi with 6 of 20 bars remaining on the fuel gauge. (Yeah, I don't really know why it is back up a bar...)

Day Total: 107.3mpg over 30.4mi

home>school>work
= 25.3 / 13.4 miles (79F S @15 gusting to 22)

work>home
= 24.9 / 13.2 miles (93F SW @ 13)

daily avg= 25.1 / 26.6 miles
tank is just under 2/8 with 366.8 miles

Welcome to a new month!!

Man, traffic was way hairy this morning. I couldn't seem to time much of anything! :p

58F, no wind, clear:


99.1mpg for 15.0mi (Home to work)

The tank is steady at 109.5mpg over 1216.8mi with 5 of 20 bars remaining on the fuel gauge.

I got side/headwind and rain yesterday on the way home.
Side and sometimes tailwind this morning (sidewind is the most usual at the open places on my route).
Plan to fill up this afternoon (yesterday I hated the idea of stopping because of the rain and thus connected heated gloves), will check tire pressure too (temperature change can surely affect it).
Will have the 'checkpoint data' about my FE since the last low fuel light too on Monday.
And I hope I won't get more rain today, I couldn't run a third loop on reserve.

Fine weather except for a little gusty wind. I didn't let that stop me.

87.1 mpg / 10.8 miles home
93.6 / 10.7 to work this morning

The tank is up to 85.1 / 173 miles. Previous best mid-tank was last month, at 84.8 / 950 miles. That tank was only at 82 mpg at this point. ;) :D

137 miles with over F on the gauge.

Drove behind a slow semi and a car following. P&G'd behind that car @ 40-60 mph. Massive cars piled behind me. When car drove out, I sped up to the semi, maintained P&G. Then semi drove out leaving me STRIPPED in front, the driver behind me was glad that semi drove out of way then SPED up behind me, tailgating, then got frustrated. OOPS, a hypermiler EXPOSED this morning. =P

Had to scoot home early to take up baby-sitting duty this afternoon.

70F, 6mph headwind from the NNE, sunny:


113.7mpg over 15.3mi (Work to home)

The tank is still hanging in there at 109.5mpg over 1232.2mi with 5 of 20 bars remaining on the fuel gauge.

Day Total: 105.9mpg over 30.4mi

I guess the laws of physics are back in action. No more negative fuel consumption showing on your fuel level gauge.

Bummer! That would be, like, *totally awesome*!

I guess the laws of physics are back in action. No more negative fuel consumption showing on your fuel level gauge.

Bummer! That would be, like, *totally awesome*!

:D

Uh, last Saturday I was driving in Toyota Camry to do errands with my wife. Drove .7 miles doing 43 MPG!! lol... such a short trip with HIGH mpg in city....

First day of school today. I decided to start the year by biking and hope to continue doing this until it snows.
-Home to School 1.7Miles Biked
-School to Home 1.7Miles Biked

First day of school today. I decided to start the year by biking and hope to continue doing this until it snows.
-Home to School 1.7Miles Biked
-School to Home 1.7Miles Biked

How much money did you spend on fuel (read food/drink) for this trip? Was there a savings? The car ride probably would have cost you about $0.30. LOL, I realize there are other benefits, just curious.

After about week of just biking and not driving, I took the family (mom, dad, & sister) out to eat. 79F and sunny going and dark coming back with winds from the SSW @ 6mph

- 49.2mpg for 18.4 miles from home to Chili's
- 44.3mpg for 18.5 miles from Chili's back to home

Day total: 46.2mpg over 37 miles

The tank is at 47.2mpg over 138.8 miles with 10.1 gallons remaining.

How much money did you spend on fuel (read food/drink) for this trip? Was there a savings? The car ride probably would have cost you about $0.30. LOL, I realize there are other benefits, just curious.

:D It cost me $0 in food to bike. I could find how many calories I burned and figure out MPGe from that.

home>school>work (traffic around another school again:rolleyes:)
= 22.7 / 13.4 miles (77F N@5)

work>home (rained most of the day, Halleluah!! about 3-4 weeks with out rain, and all the time very hot)
= 23.4 / 13.6 miles?? not sure why there are an extra 0.4 miles (70F with Rain SW@8)

daily avg = 23.1 / 27.0 miles
tank is just above 1/8 with 393.8 miles

Did a bit better this morning with 43.1 over 77.3 mi. This afternoons drive was 44.0 over 73.6 mi. I took different route that cut off some miles... to bad I'm going to different site in the morning. I will be returning to that site early next week though to do some trim work. It was great to meet up with Right Lane Cruiser and sit in such a fine automobile! Now to get a ride...We will meet again soon for a clinic I hope.:) Thanks for the short cut Sean.:Banane06:

Anytime. :)

I thought you might like that re-route a bit better. ;)

Ugh. Terrible weather for driving. Lots of standing water and moderate rain. :(

59F, 14mph headwind from the SE, raining:


92.3mpg for 15.0mi (Home to work)

The tank is now down to 109.2mpg over 1247.3mi with 4 of 20 bars remaining on the fuel gauge.

85.1 mpg / 12.1 mi - home, with a detour for pizza
91.5 / 10.6 this morning. Slight drizzle, but not enough to affect anything.

The tank was down but now is back to 85.1 / 196 miles. Still well above F. :D

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Just got the first results of the Odyssey in school-bus duty cycle. 17 mpg. :ccry: It's been ~22 in recent months. The pickup line takes 45+ minutes in the afternoon. I'm NOT :eek: going to ask my pregnant wife and 1.8 year old son to go without AC in the heat.

... but I could save probably a half gallon a day doing morning delivery myself. That will be discussed shortly. ;)

178 miles with over F on the gauge.

Another one on the way, Andrew? Congrats!!!

Thanks, Sean. Still early, due in Feb.

Soon enough, Andrew!

I had to do early afternoon babysitting again, so I drove home over lunch... then immediately got on conference calls. :rolleyes:

67F, 8mph tailwind from the SSW, overcast:


110.6mpg for 15.3mi (Work to home)

The tank is steady at 109.2mpg over 1262.7mi with 4 of 20 bars remaining on the fuel gauge.

Day Total: 100.8mpg over 30.4mi

I won't be driving again for a while -- until next Wednesday, as a matter of fact. :)

Uggg....
This is why I didn't want to drive to school. Although I had to because of the rain.

9/2/2010 Home School 25.4MPG 1.7Miles
9/2/2010 School Home 21.2MPG 1.7Miles

Morning commute 80.7 mi at 37.4:( lots of rain! Drive home I took some back roads 72.7 mi at 43.4 mpg. It was a route that a guy from work and I discussed then Sean confirmed it for me when he sent me the text of same route. Thanks again Sean,:)

257 miles ON F line on the gauge. =)

Thanks, Sean. Still early, due in Feb.

Congrats!! I got 4 boys *groan* 8, 12, 17 and 19 years old.

Alright another Pale on the way:Banane06:

home>school>work
= 25.1 / 13.3 miles (72F S@8)

work>home (before the storms came in)
= 24.3 / 12.9 miles (89F W@8)

daily avg = 24.7 / 26.2 miles
tank is just under 1/8 with the low light coming on, on the way home, 419.6 miles (124 mile to empty)

You are welcome, Gas-x! Funny that your co-worker and I came up with the same route. :)

Will have the 'checkpoint data' about my FE since the last low fuel light too on Monday.
And I hope I won't get more rain today, I couldn't run a third loop on reserve.

FE got a bit better according to the filled quantity: 3.195l/100km (was 3.23 at the low fuel light). Now 3 more commutes and I go on the Eastern route again, ~600km, 2-up.

Time to get Ciliegia serviced:

http://i259.photobucket.com/albums/hh287/shiNIN666/motor/c20k_640.jpg

And Teresa's to follow soon, she's at 59200 now. She'll probably need a drive belt adjust (it's at the outer edge of the rear sprocket now).

336 miles on the 3/4 of gauge.

:Banane28:

257 miles ON F line on the gauge. =)

336 miles on the 3/4 of gauge.

:Banane28:

What happened?! That first mark is about 67 mpg, but the second one is all the way down to 55. Not that 55 is bad, but...

257 / 3.8 gal = 67 mpg
336 / (3.8 + 2.3) = 55 mpg total
(336-257) / 2.3 = 34 mpg for that last stretch.

Much driving.

78.6 / 10.7 mi - home, in the rain. I like rain. We haven't had rain in months. Some of my trees are dying. :( I hope this helps.
97.5 / 9.0 - after dinner, to music practice. rain finished.
79.2 / 9.0 - back home late
90.9 / 10.6 - this morning, VERY humid

The tank is up a tick to 85.2 / 236 miles. Still above F.

78.9 / 10.7 miles - Home for lunch. Crazy gusting headwind. Of course, that means... ;)

103 mpg / 10.8 miles - back to work with a tailwind. :D Best ever for the route!

The tank is up to 85.5 / 257 miles and still above F.

Filled up the other day. After a 52,3mpg trip to the park the other day, I have mostly managed mid-high 30's in the Echo with Scangauge. Tank average is 39,8mpg with ~65 miles driven so far. Tomorrow should bring that figure back up over 40mpg :)

It was rainig again coming to work... no average yet, this tank's still young (just left 200km).

Yesterday I drove 77.4 mi into work at 40.1 and the trip home with the crazy north bound traffic ,people headed to their cabins for goose opener and the holiday weekend, I avg 41.4 over 73.8 mi .Took diff route. Wind was a bugger...:rolleyes:

-Home to Work 44.8MPG/15.7Miles
-Work to Home 42.6MPG/15.7Miles

Tank is up to 36.9MPG over 259.8Miles.

400 miles approaching half on the gauge. =)

I went over to my friends place to go golfing, 35.8mi @ 50.1mpg:cool: on drive there at 6:00 pm. Drive home was at 10:35pm 35.5mi @48.8mpg...nice trip! Pulse and Glide!:D

52,0mpg to my folks' house :)