zoom44

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spork

I can't really say. My mileage has DEFINITELY improved, but a lot of it comes from the fact taht I'm driving it more often (so some trips with the engine already warm) with also more freeway. So I have no idea how much comes from the engine being warm, the freeway driving, and the non warming up thing.

Sorry.

Spin9k

Thanks for sharing openly Jasin. At least you're honest and man enough to admit you screwed up your calculations (here in writing) and are now smarter and doing it correctly. Intelligence is learning from your mistakes, stupidity is repeating the same mistakes no matter what you're told different.

I applaud you for that.

I have a gut feel that a good number of other problem mileage threads posts could be doing what you did, and posting lousy results because of it... but we'll never know.

Thanks to you, maybe some will read this and learn too. Good luck, and isn't it fun to be driving AND getting PGM (pretty good mielage) to boot!

Jaisin

Thanks. :D

NgoRX8

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thanks for your output spork

i guess ill just try varying my driving as well and see how it works out. ill test it for myself.

shakRpahX8

I'm sorry to ask this question
but I'm all new

How do you guys calculate your mileage?
I want to calculate mine when I buy my RX8 soon

therm8

fill it up, reset one of the trip odometers, drive until next fill-up, divide the trip odo by the # of gallons pumped. I fill until the pump kicks off and never try to shove more in, so that i'm not a variable

G8rboy

1. Fill your tank
2. Reset one of your trip meters
3. drive the whole tank
4. Fill the tank again... and note the amount of fuel it took
5. write down the trip meter distance,
6. mileage=miles driven from #5/gallons consumed in #4
7. goto #2

TyrellCorpNexus8

I disagree with G8rboy. For step 5, I note (instead of write) down the trip meter distance. For step 6, I write (instead of note) the amount of fuel to fill up again. I do not know where in the world you got your steps from, G8rboy, and am saddened.

TyrellCorpNexus8

Therm8 does not have numbers next to his steps and it is IMPOSSIBLE to figure out what he's trying to say. Again, I am greatly saddened.

therm8

what exactly does writing down the amount of fuel get you other than i use xx.xx gallons this tank.

Lol, i;m sorry you're saddened, but that's as simple as it gets...
1. Fill it up (it=the car in question)
2. reset one of the trip odometers (there are 2, push and hold the little button above and to the right of the speedometer, the display should change from some value to 0.0. If your radio station changes instead, you're to far to the right and not enough above)
3. Drive until next fill-up (A: Drive being that thing you do with your car getting from one point to another, and B: next fill-up being what you have to do if you want to continue doing step A)
4. divide the trip odo by # of gallons pumped (the odometer reading out in miles divided by the pump reading out in gallons; i.e. miles per gallon)

/sarcasm off

TyrellCorpNexus8

Thanks for the numbers. I am not saddened any longer. This whole thing is hilarious.

zevans

Wow. Math 101! :p

I'm amazed this is a gas mileage thread with something NEW in it...

Anyway, I don't calculate it - waste of time doing that for a sports car.

TyrellCorpNexus8

I am not understanding you. Can you put some numbers next to your steps?

6speed8

Okay lets see if this helps:

1. Fill your tank when the pump clicks off pull out the nozzle , do not top off.
2. reset at least ONE of the trip odometers and remember which one it is.
If you have a hard time remembering or just not sure, reset BOTH trip
odometers to 0.0

3. drive the car until you need to put fuel in it. I usually fill up around 200 - 230
miles. Let's take my last fill up at 224.7 miles

4. Fill the tank and when the pump clicks off pull out the nozzle, do not top off.

5. take the number of gallons just put in (in this case) My car took 12.3 gallons

6. divide 224.7 by 12.3 (224.7 / 12.3) = 18.26892 MPG

7. Reset trip odometer back to 0.0 before driving away

TyrellCorpNexus8

We need more steps. Can you subdivide the 7 steps you have into at least 15 or 20?

rx8wannahave

LOL, is it this hard to calc the fuel economy in a car? LOL

Miles driven / gallons added (at next fill up) = MPG

Now...explain gravity, and that if a tree falls in the woods...or beaver...LOL

6speed8

True, it borders on laughable , however it appears some people are really NOT sure how to calculate MPG. With the HUGE range of MPGs reported (from 10 mpg to 24 mpg) it might just be possible some people ARE calculating it incorrectly. Hopefully this thread can help.

G8rboy

Exactly... there are many people on the board that don't understand this process apparently. And Lord knows we don't want Tyrell to be saddened any further

Gambit

Yeah, that elementary school math stuff is hard...I wonder if they paid $40,000 for their cars because they calculated tax and interest wrong

zoom44

this is fun and all but since there is already another thread that is a combination of 2 other threads on this exact same topic (both of which were posted in the same week) i am moving this one and then merging it with the other combined thread in tech.

TyrellCorpNexus8

This whole thread was hilarious from the beginning. I guess if you don't put face icons, people think you're absolutely serious and/or saddened.