I see a wide range depending upon the driving circumstances. Around town, but not in actual traffic jams, mine gets about 13 - 13.8 most tank fulls. On the highway, ranging from 50 MPH to 70 MPH with only enough city driving to get out onto the open road, it'll get as much as 20.2 or so. The worst I've ever seen was about 11.6 for a tank full, but that was a combination of in-town driving and sitting idling a lot while picking up the kids after school.
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New 2017, stock tires, 3rd row is out. Averaging about 14-14.5 mostly city, no stop and go. 80,000 person town. And very cold winter. Had a few 50 degree days and mileage jumped to 17 on that time.
Also, tire pressure on stock tires is 30lbs cold. Rises to 33 when warm and after 15 miles continuous driving.
Cruiser Jimmy
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18mpg with stock rig and never go above 70mph. And that's regardless of the passes in CO and their effect.
My 60 gets 12.8 on a good day. I'm pretty happy with the 200 right now.
My 60 gets 12.8 on a good day. I'm pretty happy with the 200 right now.
Sliders, roof rack, AT tires and lift on my 2013 and I'm getting about 8mpg (adjusted for 34" tire size - computer reads 7.5). That's 90% city driving. On my current tank it got up to almost 9.5 over the weekend (so closer to 10mpg) having taken the LSD to and from the airport.
Edit: LSD = Lake Shore Drive, a ~45mph pseudo-highway through Chicago. Pretty sure lysergic acid diethylamide would not have helped my mileage
8mpg??? Terrible and you dont have a front bumper yet. As a fellow Chicagoan I am getting 12-13 mpg and I have sliders and AT tires. I have been contemplating buying some fuel and engine cleaner to see if it will improve gas mileage.
Markuson
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Wow. I get better than that in the city, and my rig (with me and the wife and travel gear in it)...are over 8000 pounds! Something seems off.
No it's right, sadly. I used to get similar mileage in my Acura MDX (EPA 15/20, but 8-9mpg was typical in the winter). Even when stock the first winter I was getting 9 to 9.5mpg around town. On the plus side a tank of gas lasts a month for us even with the craptacular mileage.
FWIW it's literally all pure city driving, and most of the time the vehicle doesn't even warm up. I can't go 300' in Evanston without hitting a traffic light or a stop sign at every intersection. Weekdays the normal use for my wife is:
Last summer coming home from my parents place (about 50 miles SW) I was getting about 16mpg on the highway averaging ~70mph. Summer city driving is typically 10-11mpg though.
FWIW it's literally all pure city driving, and most of the time the vehicle doesn't even warm up. I can't go 300' in Evanston without hitting a traffic light or a stop sign at every intersection. Weekdays the normal use for my wife is:
- Start cold, drive the kids 2/3 mile to school (~5 min), shut off the truck, 10 minutes later cold start again and drive over the the YMCA
- An hour later cold start, drive <1/2 mile home
- After lunch cold start and she drives 3-4 blocks to the grocery store.
- Vehicle is cold for the drive back home
- Kid pickup from school is the same as #1 and 2
- Some days she drives ~2 miles into the city (same type of driving) to take the kids to piano.
- If we're picking anyone up from after school activities it's the same cold start and/or we're idling in the truck waiting for them
- etc
Last summer coming home from my parents place (about 50 miles SW) I was getting about 16mpg on the highway averaging ~70mph. Summer city driving is typically 10-11mpg though.
It also makes a difference of what tier gas you are purchasing. I noticed in my 2nd gen sequoia with the infamous flex fuel engine that when buying top tier fuel from shell or mobile 1 the mpg is slightly higher. I got a 1.5 mpg difference from using shell gas and using lower tier kroger gas. Also non ethanol gasoline is better for mpg. Everyone will see better numbers with non ethanol blends of fuel.
I haven't seen any difference between the Shell or BP we normally buy and the Sam's Club gas my wife insists upon buying. They're all 10% ethanol here in Corn-landia though. We do run 87 octane, but I also literally could not measure any difference when I ran 91 for ~2000 miles this summer while pulling a trailer.
Non-ethanol would certainly help since there's more energy density, but it's near impossible to find here. The winter fuel mix doesn't help, nor does the solid 10 minutes it takes for the truck to warm up to operating temps around town when it's 2F out.
Markuson
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Ah. If you literally can’t go 300 feet without a stop...(yikes!) then that MPG definitely starts to make sense. That kind of traffic would drive me nuts...
Ah. If you literally can’t go 300 feet without a stop...(yikes!) then that MPG definitely starts to make sense. That kind of traffic would drive me nuts...
Yep that's why I take the train into the city.
Best case scenario just to get to the kids elementary school is either 3 traffic lights on Main St (one of which you sit through twice, at least) or no lights but a stop sign at literally every intersection (9 of them along Lee St). Typical city lot is about 35' wide and 150' deep around me, so you can get some perspective on the distances based on how tightly houses are packed in. It's pure city driving, not suburban driving which is what most people would call city. Convenient, but not particularly environmentally friendly for drivers.
Bone stock 2009 LX with Michelins and I've never gotten better than about 12 or 13 mpg even on the highway. I hate to see how much that drops once I put KO2's on it.
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Hum... next go around I might to with a P rated tire like the Bridgestone Dueler A/T Revo2 to eek out a few more tenths of an MPG! Hahaha. So far it is the only fault I have with this vehicle, not bad! Really considering I only get 13mpg in my Lexus ISF (5.0l V8) it's pretty good!
Markuson
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That's kinda how I see it too. Even the little 4 cylinder boxer engine in my Subaru WRX only got about 16 (the way I drove it), and at BEST, maybe 21 on the highway. Considering my super-heavy-weight beast of a V8 Cruiser? I'm amazed I can still get 14+ on the highway.
The rack isn't helping his aerodynamics - though I'm not sure how much of a factor this is with mostly city driving. I had a basket-style BajaRack on my Tacoma - PO installed. I removed it and gained 2 mpg.
Stock '11 here with Michelin LTXs. I get the same numbers and I use a Scangauge II to calculate my MPG. The LC got just over 20 MPG this past weekend traveling on a two lane highway at 55-65mpg.
I've also experimented with leaving ECT on for a couple of tanks and off for a couple of tanks - MPG results are the same.
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