I know the question gets asked and many of us actually have Fuelly accounts. Lets link our accounts together so that people in the future can just click on any one of us, and have the ability to look through what we are averaging as a group. I understand that they can click the RX8 link, but some of those guys are way off, like the person who got 130mpg... I am posting my banner so we can start linking all of our fuelly accounts to each other.

Edit: Just like in the introductions of oneself, same rule applies here. Fuel logs or it didn't happen :P The logs are more accurate to a decimal as long as your being honest on your entries. This isn't a competition, its a chart of how we are doing. What the average is, and adding notes as to why would also be great. You can explain that your driving is all city, all suburban, or all long haul highway. Take note if your using 10% ethanol, 15% ethanol or pure fuel. Are you using 110, 100, 93, 91, 89, or 87 octane? Did you AutoX or Spirited drive one day? The more information the more statistically sound these stats are for us, and for others that take a peek.

 

Not sure what you mean by "Lets link our accounts together..." What are the specific steps to accomplish this?

I have friended you on Fuelly (I'm Surtur there and here), is that what you mean?

 

 

i should have used an app like this to permanently record my MPG back before I moved to europe and avg HWY speed became 90+mph. It would have pissed so many of you guys off. I regularly got 25-26hwy, have hit 27. and maintained 21-22 mixed.

Course with highway speeds regularly Being 145+kph(90mph) now, that doesnt happen anymore

 

I didn't buy the car for mileage, so I have no reason to track it. This isn't a bad idea though. Newbs asking about mileage will still ask however.

 

It's my understanding that mileage is one of the best, if not the best, indicator of the health of any car.

 

If Surtur is right, and I have no reason to belive he is not (newbie, owned the car approx 3 weeks), I'm in allot of trouble. I've only measured one tank but got 12.4 miles per gallon. True that I've been winding it out but (I shift between 5 and 6 for "normal driving" and around 7.5 when out for some fun.

Ok, so now I will commit the newbie sin and ask, is it me or it is something I need to check or do?

 

Not necessarily. Gas mileage has way too many variables to be a good indicator of the health of an engine. My winter beater had a miss so bad that it would almost shake fillings loose leaving a light, but still got 30mpg. About the only indication you'd get that something is wrong, is if you have a sudden drop from average and it stays there. Say you average 20, then you drop to 12, you might have a problem if it's a consistant 12. If it's a one tank deal, there are too many things that factor it. Spirited driving, bad gas, a heavy right foot, a change in driving pattern (more city driving), using the go pedal more, etc.

I do check mine from time to time, but it's merely just to check it, like if i got an unusually high or low amount of miles per tank, and i want to see the mpg to laugh at it.

 

I've seen around 12 during a day of spirited driving. I wouldn't stress about one tank. If you just got the car, you're probably constantly driving with a heavier right foot than what you will normally. Keep track of it and see if it goes up as your driving calms down.

 

I'm in!


It's so simple to keep track of with fuelly. Just add your fill-ups via text message. Takes like 10 seconds. Although I was already writing down my mileage for every fill-up prior to getting the fuelly account, so now it's just that much easier!

 

Fuel economy isn't an indicator of vehicle health. You could just have a dab of oil on your MAF sensor, for example. The engines are also hand built, there can be quite a lot of variance between them.

The guy with 130 mpg on his fuelly likely skipped a bunch of fill ups and doesn't know how to enter numbers into a webpage without messing it up.

 

I have friended a few on Fuelly. The question is, are you using the same RX8Club name on Fuelly?

 

I tried but it was taken. Yorkeh is close.. if everyone posts their fuelly banner you can see the username in there.

 

My thanks to the guys who provided helpful answers. I had two RX7s back in the day. I do know that the Nissan dealer I bought it from appears to have overfilled the oil (cylinder mentality) and think this might have effected the plugs. I will have the oil changed and replace plugs to see if that might help or any other simple tune up type things. Otherwise, it appears that removing about two lbs of lead from my right foot might also be a good idea!!

Thanks again

 

In case anyone's wondering, I drive my 8 like I stole it every day! And, this is almost ALL city mileage since I started using Fuelly.

 

It's kinda hard not to. I've noticed that I can get decent gas mileage if I try. But there's no fun in that. Besides, gas is an entertainment expense.

 

^Agreed!

 

I'm game:



i have a Bumper to Bumper traffic commute every M-F for like 30 mins and i do mostly city driving. only about 30% highway

 

Why does this and the one in your sig show different mileage figures?

 

shows the same on my screen...

 

It does on mine now. Before one was 14.5 and the other was 14.8.
No, I'm not seeing things.

 

sure sure...put down the doobie..

 

Haven't touched the stuff in 30 yrs. The closest I get these days is an intermittent cigar.

 

To bad they don't do a "friends average"