on my 2005 after TSB I am getting about 18 MPH around town and up to 35 on highway. My commute is very short about 2.5 miles. If I fell the car up with gas and hit the highway I can get 35 mpg. After my trip if I drive around time it gradually gets lower to as low as 18-19. Anyone else have similar results?
Mine is an '06 that barely does 28 on the highway. If you are getting 35 on the hwy, I would say you are doing better than most, but you have an '05 and I do not know that vehicles mpg avg.
Your city avg seems low, but there's all kinds of "city" driving, so in your case, it may be normal.
I was wrong. My highway is only that good on a low trip where I fill up get on the road and keep driving.
Otherwise it is about 26 hgwy.
My man, thanks a lot for clarifying your numbers. I was starting to have second thoughts about my brand new Avy, which at its best so far gives me 32 MPG on the highway (including piss-stops, panoramic-stops, lunch stops and refuling).
Your numbers can easily have anyone at Toyota scratching their heads. Truly amazing is all I can say; this is way beyond EPA estimates, which are based on a very short and mostly straight-path trip. However, for that precious “42” that I see in the LCD screen:
What was the length of travel?
How many stops did you make during that travel?
Average vehicle speed? With or without cruise control?
Vehicle load (no. of passengers during that trip, stuff in the trunk, etc)?
What fuel grade do you feed to your Avy?
How much time elapsed between refueling and the snapshot of your screen display?
Are you in the North, South, East or West?
I just put in about 6 gallons of reg. gas in, I was on empty, just to make it home to a cheaper gas station.
After putting gas in tank went on a 7 minute ride almost all down hill and saw the 42 mpg on screen and happened to have my camera in front seat and snapped a pic.
I really dont get that on highway, (I wish)
I do get 31-33 stricly highway and about 20 mpg city 23-26 combined.
The best I have gotten on my 2005 Limited is 29.3 mph all on a long 6 hour highway trip with no stops and averaging between 60 & 75 mph the whole trip on regular gas.
I have done the tranny update, use cruise control and my '07 LTD with 14K miles gets no where near 32 MPG. I tested it in that last two weeks on 80% Freeway trips with Premium (26.47MPG) and regular (25.76MPG). This was using pump cut off & doing the math - not the dash calculation. I will be buying Regular from now on.....
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Last edited by That70sGAdawg; 05-03-2008 at 06:46 PM.
I have made several trips from New Orleans to Houston and get above 32 every time. This is using the cheapest regular. Cruise control on driving speed limits. Car has about 11,000 miles on it. This is by computer and manual check. Tire pressure 36 all around.
I've cracked 30+ on trips, but usually just high twenties. Round town I get low twenties.
Guys,Are you trusting the dash calculation, or figuring it yourself?? I have seen posts claiming that premium fuel offsets the .20 cost difference with better gas mileage. I want to know, it's pretty important with todays gas prices! Getting a little better gas mileage this week in FL with flat terrian, but I want to hear proof before I buy Premium, as I had to buy it for years with BMW's....
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Last edited by That70sGAdawg; 05-07-2008 at 10:58 PM.
2007 Avy XLS. I drive a lot and have noticed a big change in the mileage between driving into the wind or against the wind. Makes sense but I never had a car with a mileage readout on the dash. My readout is about 1 to 1-1/2 miles better than actual, i.e., if it says 32 I'm really getting 30.5. At any rate, into a stiff wind the readout is about 28. With the wind, about 32. I don't get any good readings in town as I do very little in-town driving. Another note, I never got into the 30's on the dash readout until I started using synthetic oil. It took a few thousand miles, perhaps for the rings to seat, but then my mileage climbed rather dramatically.
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