Newbie,
Do you read the posts you reply to?

What are you talking about?

 

I have read many posts about how much people are getting to the tank. However, the variable are never constant in people's posts. I can tell you that I get 220 miles to the tank. But here is how it breaks down.

1. Whenever the guage starts to read under the halfway mark, I fill her up. (approx. 11-12) gallons.
2. Write down the miles on the odometer and trip odometer and reset the trip.
3. I do some math and recording to keep track.

What I am saying is that I don't let my tank get close to empty to figure out what I am getting per tank. I don't care how many miles I get to the tank, I care about how many miles I get to the gallon. BTW, it calculates out to 19 - 19.5 mpg. Most tags I have ever seen on sports cars GENERALLY will say 17 city / 23 hwy. If I get anywhere in that range, I'm happy go lucky.

 

yea i read them, im just saying someone shouldnt be bitching about being at 19mpg instead of 22...

 

I've actually been coast to coast in my car I've gotten as much as 350+ miles and still had some to go. I did a tune up about two years ago when I got my car and if I do a lot of in town driving the gas mileage tends to steadily go down. After a lot of intown driving it takes an hour trip on the highway to get the gas mileage back up and clean everything out.

Just recently I filled up when I was between a 1/4 and E. My car was sitting on a pretty good slope passenger side low. I put almost 17 Gallons in and I couldn't believe it! I normally put in between 13-14 gallons and get anywhere between 180-250 on a tank city/highway.

Just some food for thought I can get 80-100 miles before the needle starts so come off the full mark even doing 80-90mph average. Also its about 2 gallons to go at 1/4 and about 5 gallons at half tank. Roughly 10 gallons at the full mark. About 5 above the full mark. Just from what I've callculated. So basically at the 3/4 mark you should know what to expect on the bottom end of the tank.

 

26 to 28 highway


17 to 19 city

 

If you fill our cars right up so the needle goes past full then 3/4 tank is actually 1/2.