If running around town or within an hour of home I usually hold off on getting gas until I hit 1/4 of a tank. If I am traveling or about to depart for a trip I top off beforehand and whenever convenient along the way. There are very few places in this country where I'd be concerned at half a tank.
How good is your gas mileage?!
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Let's be honest here, we all bought LC's because we love the smell of fuel at the pump.
Bad.
I got 16mpg on my first tank and since then I have been hovering around 13.8mpg. Bone stock LX570, mostly around town driving, which I assume is the problem. Edit: Tire pressure around 35psi on passenger michelins.
I expected a slight bump in MPG compared to the 80 (lifted on 35's, but pretty lightweight as built 80's go). So far they seem about the same.
I got 16mpg on my first tank and since then I have been hovering around 13.8mpg. Bone stock LX570, mostly around town driving, which I assume is the problem. Edit: Tire pressure around 35psi on passenger michelins.
I expected a slight bump in MPG compared to the 80 (lifted on 35's, but pretty lightweight as built 80's go). So far they seem about the same.
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Way back in the days before I got scuba certified, scuba tanks had J-valves that would close airflow when tank pressure dipped below 500 psi. Flip knob to reserve to use remaining air to return to surface. This was in the days before reliable submersible pressure gauges.
In all honesty I’m not sure fuel pump “cooling” is even necessary if it is moving fuel through it, but if it is, the temperature at which damage may occur is surely higher than the boiling point of gasoline. So yeah I think it is likely still cooling even if there isn’t much fuel left.
You can also use Fuelly without the app via SMS and it does all the math for you, plus stores the data elsewhere. It can graph mileage, figure out fuel costs over time, etc. Pretty useful. And if they forced you to use the app (with all the inevitable tracking BS) I don’t think it would be worth using, but they still haven’t killed the SMS feature yet.
Doing a transmission fluid change helped me get +1 (+1.5 mpg)
I average about 13.7 in city driving.
I average about 13.7 in city driving.
Our new navs actually start pulling up gas stations...
I never go below 1/4 and usually at least half. Im a "prepper" though.
There maybe some evaporative effect going on as well inside the tank. Pure guess.
In older vehicles, I heard that this makes sure the fuel pump doesn't give up. If we tend to wait for the last bit of drop from tank, it puts more strain on fuel pumps?
My average shows 10.9 after a 5 hour drive south to Fort Myers. My 40 gallon LRA tank is still the best modification I've made, by far.
Gas mileage is so good with an LRA 
Gas mileage is so good with an LRA
Amen."Fuel range" is "acceptable" with an LRA
There, I fixed it for you lol.
Something around 13,5 - 14,5 L/100km
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Follow up to my last post. Did a trip yesterday/today 233 miles. Stopped for: Dinner, Hotel, Breakfast, Visit to Client & Lunch, includes stoplights, etc.
Driving stock tires (Dunlops @ ~ 35PSI). I can't complain - except about CA fuel prices
Ha, those prices will look cheap come spring. Expect CA prices to hit an average of $6 if the CEO of Gas Buddy and other market predictions are correct.Follow up to my last post. Did a trip yesterday/today 233 miles. Stopped for: Dinner, Hotel, Breakfast, Visit to Client & Lunch, includes stoplights, etc.
Driving stock tires (Dunlops @ ~ 35PSI). I can't complain - except about CA fuel prices
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Open road 16 mpg with LT285/65/18 KO2 and a Roofnest Falcon mounted as low as possible on Rhino backbone. Seems to have dropped by 1-2 mpg since fitting Harrop Stage 1 blower but that could be symptomatic of me enjoying the whine.
Ken
Ken
Follow up to my last post. Did a trip yesterday/today 233 miles. Stopped for: Dinner, Hotel, Breakfast, Visit to Client & Lunch, includes stoplights, etc.
Driving stock tires (Dunlops @ ~ 35PSI). I can't complain - except about CA fuel prices
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Nice!
This is unicorn MPG territory but ive seen it before. It has to be magical conditions and possibly downhill but ive seen it. Anything at all off highway or stopping and its shattered.
Off road/even gravel - yeah, it's tough on fuel. My conditions weren't magical however. It was a round trip. With all those stops. The only favorable factors were no or, little wind and it was only me in the vehicle. I confess to driving the speed limit (or close) - I hate the hassle/cost of tickets. without the stops I would have been over 21 for sure. I just wonder if my "break in" drive of 900 miles straight may have somehow been a factor. I have no other explanation. I use the lowest octane fuel available, mostly from Costco. To be fair when the wife drives around town; the numbers are kinda depressing. About what my LX 450 gets.
