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It's Monday again -- is everyone geared up for a great week? :)

53F, 9mph cross/headwind from the ESE, overcast:


99.8mpg for 15.0mi (Home to work)

The tank is down to 102.2mpg over 17.5mi

I'm back from vacation.

Sean, great work on that tank, despite not being up to your previous standards.

76.9 mpg / 13.3 miles this morning, with school drop off. I tried another variation that didn't work too well and it added miles. That one's out.

The tank is down a little more, to 83.1 / 382 miles.

A slightly bad commute to work, but had to take a detour which screwed it up a little.

62.8 MPG / 12.3 Miles home to work

no reports from me this week, or until I get my SG back from repair. Support from SG folks said it would all be taken care of and free.:Banane18:

Bad thing now is driving blind:cool::(

Bad thing now is driving blind:cool::(

You gonna develop a 6th sense that may complement numerical feed back from your SGII :cool:

Denis.

Wow... boy was traffic ugly this afternoon!!!

57F, 12-18mph cross/tailwind from the ESE, overcast with wet roads:


103.6mpg over 15.4mi (Work to home)

The tank is up to 102.6mpg over 32.9mi

Day Total: 101.5mpg over 30.4mi

Drive in 72.0 mi @ 40.9, trip home was better at 46.7 mpg over 72.3 mi.:)

Nice work, Gas-x! :)

Trip | mpg (soc) | gpCm | Miles | Time | F | Wind | Notes
Work (S) | 56.4 | 1.77 | 20.6 | 07.34 | 48 | 1-4NNW | 75% lgb
Home (N) | 60.8 (4) | 1.64 | 20.8 | 07.58 | 64 | ~11NNW | Hit a key red light


Noticeably more windy on my way home with a noticeable effect on coast/glide.

The light on my commute home is one I normally hit. You approach at 45mph and shortly after the speed drops to 35mph at the top of a long, glide-able downhill (0.9mi) to a light before a bridge, and another 0.1 mile to the next light before the road starts a slow rise. If you can hit the light at the top of the hill it's beautiful. Problem is:
- It's sensor-driven and there's more cross-traffic.
- The road curves before the light so you can't get that long a read on the light
- At commute-time there are always people behind you so a speculative long glide to the light would be impolite, especially given the road actually rises slightly before the light so you'd start slowing down before it was in sight.

I've had just about enough of being bullied by weather and traffic. :p

I fought back today. ;)

60F, 7mph headwind from the S, lots of standing water on the roads:


103.4mpg for 15.0mi (Home to work)

The tank is back up to 102.9mpg over 48.0mi

Hi all! Just wanted to let y'all know that I am still breathing and kicking. Been so busy in last few weeks and this tank is very very bad too....

Good news, bad news.

62.8 mpg / 2.4 mi - work to pharmacy. Child 1 is sick. :( I found a better route to the pharmacy. :)
89.9 / 12.0 - pharma to home. Nice. :)
92.3 / 10.6 - home to work, no stop at school. :) mpg, :( child

The tank is up to 83.3 / 407 miles and about 7/8 on the gauge.

~90F yesterday evening, 75 this morning.

Pale, hope your child will get better soon!

Thanks. She's not too bad, just a persistent cough and early stage ear infections. She's home mainly to keep the rest of the class healthy. Oh, and she can't hear a thing, which is a problem in class! "What?" :p

Sick children are never a good thing. :(

Good work with the commute numbers!

not filled-up yet, but longest tank is now 1829.9km (1137.0mi) from previous at 1825.3km (1134.4mi) :cool:
I will fill-up tomorrow, but when is always unknown. The records and symbolic marks in front of me are :

1858.4km = 1155.0mi - vekke's (EM.com (http://ecomodder.com/forum/em-fuel-log.php?vehicleid=2344))
1889.9km = 1174.6mi - wayne's (CMPG.com (http://www.cleanmpg.com/index.php?page=garage&displayunits=MPG%28US%29&viewcar=639))
1900.0km = 1180.9mi
1930.8km = 1200.0mi
2000.0km = 1243.0mi
2521.9km = 1567.4mi - sean's


I will attempt the 1st two. I may try the 3rd one but not the 4th.
I will attempt the double-kilo-kilometer tank next spring, sadly I'm certain I would have been able to do it this summer if I had the kill switch one or two months sooner :(
For the last one I'll need much more aeromods, weight reduction and miracles... (dear Santa Claus... )

Denis.

Ooooh! Is vekke's Seat a tdi? It's listed as a 1.9 engine, and wikipedia shows only a tdi in that displacement. Gas 1.8 and 2.0.

If it's a gasser, I'll have to push my record farther in the future. ;)

Andrew, hope your vacation was great and your child will recover quickly.

Both my son and I have a cold. We are competing since Friday to know who have the worst mood...

Vekke's Seat is a TDI : his modding thread (http://ecomodder.com/forum/showthread.php/seat-cordoba-vario-1-9-tdi-6896.html). He modded his car more than I did and achieves better results than mine despite driving faster thanks to his SGII. He failed to achieve a 2000km (1243.0mi) tank but he should be able to do so as his EPA rating is 47. Despite mine is only 35 I hope I'll be the first to achieve one...

Andrew, only Wayne's record is important to your eyes ;)

Denis.

Weather changed for the better, finally it wasn't raining yesterday nor today.
It was a bit cold in the morning though, ~5C (41F) (with thick fog in the valley next to town), I had to use my heated gloves (2 amps power draw).
Next morning will probably be similar, so today I brought extra lining for my pants.
I'm happy for the change, I can much more easily handle a cold morning than rain. I hope it won't freeze for a while, last year I could ride until early December - then it was mostly cold and snowy until mid March... it's quite an unusual year in Hungary, we get much more snow and rain than normal.

Anyway, I made a quick turn into town on the top of my normal commute to buy a new phone for shiNIN - her phone just got lost, we don't have the faintest idea where :confused:
Well, extra 10km in city driving mode for yesterday (with an extra stop). At least we did not have to pay for parking the bikes :)

And I forgot to mention last week the new fill for Ciliegia. She mostly got 1-up rides, in the half of the tank I was driving, and we could almost get an 500km tank :) Average is 2.8l/100km (83.9mpgUS). I'll refuel Teresa in the weekend (on our next Eastern Hungary trip), which means more 2-up freeway ride (those alternate routes are certainly not fun after night shifts).

The Insight seems to be suffering a bit of loss of power. Not sure what that is about...

68F, 12mph crosswind from the W, sunny:


101.2mpg for 15.4mi (Work to home)

The tank is back down to 102.4mpg over 63.4mi

Day Total: 102.2mpg over 30.4mi

Grrr... I didn't bike today because it was supposed to rain.

It never rained.


So I got a crappy today average of ~20MPG over 3.4Miles. :(

I got my scooter/motorcycle on the road today. Here is a link to it: http://www.saferwholesale.com/300cc-Tiger-Trike-p/300cc%20tiger%20trike.htm I got the black one. It should be interesting to see what this thing can do. It has an auto-trans but it will actually freewheel when you let off the throttle. I'm not too sure about FAS'ing it though as the starter will not engage unless one of the brakes is activated. I'm assuming that it just needs to turn on the brake light so there may be some wiggle room with the adjustments. It also has 14" car type radials on the back so I may have to see if a certain Bridgestone tire may fit.;)

Sean, you don't have a diesel, so no soot sealing off your engine...

I don't remember if your last recall permitted to resolve the problem. Hope your batteries aren't deteriorating too much.

Oainac, here also the weather forecast looks much more like a guess than an exact science since the temperatures are lowering...

Larry, pretty Michelin would fit so better ;)

Denis.

Hi, Denis -- I might need to get the EGR valve cleaned.

The battery is fine though I still don't get full assist when I ask for it. I might go through another forced recal to try to resolve that this tank.

I got my scooter/motorcycle on the road today. Here is a link to it: http://www.saferwholesale.com/300cc-Tiger-Trike-p/300cc%20tiger%20trike.htm I got the black one. It should be interesting to see what this thing can do. It has an auto-trans but it will actually freewheel when you let off the throttle. I'm not too sure about FAS'ing it though as the starter will not engage unless one of the brakes is activated. I'm assuming that it just needs to turn on the brake light so there may be some wiggle room with the adjustments. It also has 14" car type radials on the back so I may have to see if a certain Bridgestone tire may fit.;)

Are you planning on leading a mileage log of this one? I'm really curious.

Trip|MPG (soc)|gpCm|Miles|Time|F|Wind|Notes
Work (S)|55.5 (6)|1.80|20.6|07:38|50|8WNW|
Friend to Home (N)|70.7 (6)|1.41|38.5|21:17|59|6S|Some sub-PSL driving


Filled up on way home. 564.3 miles, 9.456gal, 59.6764mpg.

Grrr... I didn't bike today because it was supposed to rain.

It never rained.


So I got a crappy today average of ~20MPG over 3.4Miles. :(

I used to wear waterproof pants and jacket.

Sorry to hear about the power loss Sean,especially as there is not much to play with there you must really notice any issue it may have being such a sensitive machine. Well I didn't do the greatest today but it was what I could do.... Wife locked her and the kids out of the house her Vue keys also..... I had to save the day and pick her up after work as she got a ride from her dad. Those of you that have day care they charge extra if you are late so I set my cruise at 68 and motored home.... I was bumbed to get that call from her as it was warm and I know I had a good 45-49 avg waiting to be squeezed out of the spicy orange unnamed car of mine. DANG. settled with a lame 39.9 trip home saved the day and all is good but my tank avg slightly dropped.:p

Thanks, Gas-x... it may have just been some hidden regen as the car responded normally this morning. :)

I did quite well considering the temperature and the rather large number of forced stops in areas I typically coast through.

43F, no wind, clear:


101.2mpg for 15.0mi (Home to work)

The tank is back down to 102.2mpg over 78.5mi

I guess those 1400+mi tanks are gone. :p

Really great commute to work this morning. Very little traffic and the lights were very good to me. Had very good glides.

79.1 MPG / 11.0 Miles home to work

Sean, it's an easier pill to swallow, maintaining 102 mpg, than dropping from 115 down to that level one tenth at a time. Agree?


89.3 mpg / 10.9 mi- home last night. Hot and a tailwind. (from the south, from whence cometh the hot)
80.5 / 12.7 - this morning, with school dropoff.

The tank is up a tick to 83.4 / 431 miles.

True, Andrew -- and better than not being able to top 100mpg anymore!!

1858.4km = 1155.0mi - vekke's (EM.com (http://ecomodder.com/forum/em-fuel-log.php?vehicleid=2344)) done
1889.9km = 1174.6mi - wayne's (CMPG.com (http://www.cleanmpg.com/index.php?page=garage&displayunits=MPG%28US%29&viewcar=639)) done

For the last one I have a picture :
http://www.groar.org/EcoModder/20100922-1889.9km.JPG
I stopped only to take the picture ;)
Not filled-up yet, but longest tank is now 1890.9km (1175.2mi) from previous at 1825.3km (1134.4mi) :cool: Picture :
http://www.groar.org/EcoModder/20100922-1890.9km.JPG
I will fill-up tomorrow just after this one :

1900.0km = 1180.9mi

If tank permits so...

Denis.

Go go go! :D

Well done, Denis!! :woot:

I drove the Insight today since it was raining. I had 85.7 for the 1.1 mile trip there and the daily was at 94.7 when I got home. I wish I had reset the FCD before I left to come home so I wouldn't have to do all the math to figure out how good the trip home was.:p Also, I lost the first mark on the scooter today somewhere around the 35-40 mile mark. I guess I should set up a mileage log to keep track of the tanks.

Ok, got the log set up for the scooter. Anyone have any ideas on where to find an EPA rating on a Chinese manufactured scooter/trike? :confused:

Larry, assuming you drove the same distance home that comes out to 105.8mpg over 1.1mi.

Man, traffic was absurd on the way home!! :eek:

60F, 9mph crosswind from the ESE, overcast with occasional sprinkles:


91.1mpg for 11.1mi (Work to doctor's office :()
110.2mpg for 4.2mi (Doctor's office to home)

The tank is now down to 101.0mpg over 89.8mi

Day Total: 98.2mpg over 30.5mi

I'd have had to pull close to 140mpg to get the day average up to 100mpg after that dismal trip to the doctor's office. :(

I'm not looking forward to the numbers tomorrow -- it is supposed to rain 3-4" and I've got a lunch to drive to and from as well. :p

Trip|MPG (soc)|gpCm|Miles|Time|F|Wind|Notes
Work (S)|57.0|1.75|20.6|07:35|57|6SSW|
Home (N)|66.4 (5)|1.51|20.8|18:00|73|1S-4SW|


Day 61.36/1.63. Best commute on the new daily log so far. Helped by good temperatures I expect. I sense a scatter-graph in my future.

Really great commute to work this morning. Very little traffic and the lights were very good to me. Had very good glides.

79.1 MPG / 11.0 Miles home to work

Way to go!:woot:

Rain, rain, rain! :p

61F, 8mph tail/crosswind from the NE, rain:


97.2mpg for 15.0mi (Home to work)

The tank is now down to 100.5mpg over 109.1mi

Sean, at least it's still triple digits. Looks like you passed the one gallon mark, too.

88.7 mpg / 10.8 mi - home last night. HOT (97) and a tailwind.
77.6 / 13.5 - this morning with school dropoff. The line was backed up, and I had to stop-n-go on the uphill portion. Usually I can top the hill first and then handbrake FAS all the way to the dropoff point.

Tank is down a tick to 83.3 / 456 miles. Just above 3/4 on the guess gauge.

Yes it is!! Unfortunately, I suspect it won't be after the rest of my driving today. :p It is still raining and I've got to take a very inefficient route to a lunch meeting...

Man, it is really raining hard out there!!! :(

62F, 9mph wind from the ESE, raining:


75.9mpg for 6.8mi (Work to restaurant)
79.1mpg for 7.6mi (Restaurant to work)

The tank average is now down to 97.0mpg over 123.5mi :ccry:

Day Total: 86.4mpg over 29.4mi

That's what I get for heavy rain, short trips, hilly terrain, and highway routes. :p

Today's average is already shot. I might just try the highway back to the house to see how bad it is.

Topped off the scooter today. I had 44.7 miles on this tank and the gauge was blinking between 1/2 & 3/4 and, I will be taking my daughter to her voice lessons and the trip will be nearly as far as the amount of miles already on the tank. Since it is an unfamiliar vehicle to me, I wanted to make sure I had plenty of fuel for the trip. I used .892 gallons which comes to 50.1 mpg. Now it's time to start getting more serious about trying to wring some efficiency out of this beast.:p

Biked to school and back. Had a head wind most of the time and I need to stuff some more air into my tires. I'm sure my MPGs are suffering because of that.

Well, I tried it. It actually came surprisingly close to what I figured I'd make going home in this mess of rain, wind, and traffic on the usual route. The stops on that one are hard enough to counteract with long glides in dry weather -- pushing water out of the way makes it really difficult. I probably wouldn't have done much better than about 92mpg or so.

I'll have to try the route again sometime when it is dry and less windy to see what I might be able to do with it.

63F, 10mph cross/headwind from the ENE, hard rain:


87.8mpg for 13.5mi (Work to home)

The tank is now way down to 96.1mpg over 137.1mi

Day Total: 86.9mpg over 43.0mi

Trip|MPG (soc)|gpCm|Miles|Time|F|Wind|Notes
Work (S)|56.4 (6)|1.77|20.6|07:40|55|Neg|
Home (N)|65.8 (5)|1.52|20.8|10:47|59|5WNW|Left early
USPS|28.6 (6)|3.50|1.2|15:01|64|n/a|Working from home so needed the car's speed


Commute was over 60mpg again (60.76/1.65), but the errand put me down to 58.90/1.70.

Short trips hurt.

Well Drive in was not bad considering all my morning commutes are low.... I got 42.2 over 72.5 mi. Drive home was a different story and an ugly one at that. I avg 50 mph over 73 mi at a terrible 36.1mpg. I would like to say even though it is not a great number I felt like I won the gold medal at the olympics to come out of that long drive above 35...so much water on the roads. The first 16 mi of my commute I had a good avg going of 43.6 that fell apart as I waited in stop and go to merge onto 35w. Bad deal but I hope better things are to come tomorrow. Sorry to hear of your commute as well Sean thats the game I guess.:)

Yep -- so it goes. It is gratifying to see the car hang onto 100+mpg instantaneous for large stretches of relatively level terrain at 51-53mph in spite of wind and rain, though. :D

That merge onto 169 from Bass Lake Rd heading north is brutal, though. :eek: (Short, steep, and full of very fast moving traffic!)

No driving for me today.

85.9 / 10.8 home last night. I mistimed the first light and idled for a moment, while the engine was still cold. Then I had to blast up a highway merge for a cluster of traffic. 3000 rpm, baby! :eek:

Oil change in the driveway dropped the tank from 83.4 to 83.3.

78.1 / 12.6 this morning with school dropoff. The line was the longest I've seen yet. I got 94 mpg / 7 miles from school to work, though.

The tank is down to 83.2 / 479 miles.

200 miles with needle over the F mark in the gauge.

Well guys, I just dropped my tank average down to 94.0mpg with no extra distance. :ccry:

I decided it was time to do the full on idle recharge recal. I pulled fuse #18 (briefly) to reset the BCM, pulled the EPS fuse (#15 under the hood), then put the car in neutral, pressed the clutch pedal, cranked her up and held a 3500 RPM idle until the SoC read 20 bars. I put the EPS fuse back in after I turned the car off.

I'm hoping this fixes the limited assist behavior I've been seeing.

Out for lunch. I saw my honey there. ;)

66.7 mpg / 2.4 mi
46.7 / 1.0
89.7 / 3.3

The tank is down to 83.0 and 486 miles now.

Went to Wilmington, DE from Middletown, DE to pick up repaired printer. 1/2 mile 20 minutes traffic jam on the return trip back to work -- *GROWL*

250 miles with a little less than 1/8 below F on the gauge in my HypermilerX.

Well guys, I just dropped my tank average down to 94.0mpg with no extra distance. :ccry:

I decided it was time to do the full on idle recharge recal. I pulled fuse #18 (briefly) to reset the BCM, pulled the EPS fuse (#15 under the hood), then put the car in neutral, pressed the clutch pedal, cranked her up and held a 3500 RPM idle until the SoC read 20 bars. I put the EPS fuse back in after I turned the car off.

I'm hoping this fixes the limited assist behavior I've been seeing.
Ouch! Just curious, did you have the clutch pressed the whole time you were idling at 3500 and, how long did it take?

Yes, I kept it pressed in -- I didn't see any need to add extra drag to the system while in "generator" mode.

It took less than 2min, though I parked it with 18 bars so there wasn't much to actually fill up. It showed the standard 4 bars of regen while doing this.

I calculate I used 0.031g doing that. :(

I won't know if this changed the assist behavior any until I go driving again. Sunday, perhaps?

Yes, I kept it pressed in -- I didn't see any need to add extra drag to the system while in "generator" mode.

It took less than 2min, though I parked it with 18 bars so there wasn't much to actually fill up. It showed the standard 4 bars of regen while doing this.

I calculate I used 0.031g doing that. :(

I won't know if this changed the assist behavior any until I go driving again. Sunday, perhaps?

OK. I was wondering if it had to be pressed for the procedure to work. I guess as long as you didn't have to do that too often there wouldn't be any worry about throw-out bearing wear. Hopefully that did the trick for you.

I didn't find anything stating that the clutch must be pressed.

Biked to school today.

I'll be driving to school later for the football game.

Trip|MPG (soc)|gpCm|Miles|Time|F|Wind|Notes
Work (S)|54.2 (4)|1.85|20.6|07:48|52|5S|Rain
Home (N)|62.0 (4)|1.61|20.8|14:15|61|0-5E|

Took the Insight for a drive to run an errand. 104.5 mpg for 8.1 miles there and 113.7 for 8.2 miles back home. Not sure if there will be more driving or not.

Out to get cat food today. 79F and partly cloudy with winds from the WNW @ 8mph

- 53.1mpg for 14.8 miles from home to Petco
- 48.6mpg for 14.8 miles for the return trip

Day total: 50.7mpg over 29.6 miles

The tank is up to 47.3mpg over 297.9 miles with 6.7 gallons remaining.

Unfortunately it seems that forced recal I went through did me absolutely no good at all. The car behaves exactly the same with limited assist. :p

35F down, no wind, clear,
61F back, 4mph cross/tailwind from the ESE, sunny:


102.2mpg for 18.4mi (Home to Church)
108.8mpg for 18.4mi (Church to home)

The tank is back up to 96.1mpg over 174.0mi

Day Total: 105.4mpg over 36.8mi

Today's numbers for going to work. It was cooler today.

36.6MPG |15.7Miles
35.7MPG |15.7Miles

Oh RolyRolo, you're going down dude:Banane45: