Week of June 11 - June 17, 2007 (US Ave $3.13)

Cross-town commute from my fiancee's house: 29 miles, 84 MPG. If that's not the best ever on this trip, it's close. I tried a different route for one segment which may have actually shortened the trip, and it was smooth sailing with no traffic for practically the entire segment. It was a little cool this morning, 53F to start and hitting the low 60s at the finish, so maybe I can hit 90 MPG on this trip when mid-summer temps peak. Of course then I won't be looking forward to the p.m. trip home with no AC, but I'll deal with it ... maybe.

 

I did a lot of extra city driving this tank as I was outfitting a new office space, and I had some extra-slow commute segments over the mountain due to both the construction and tourist seasons being in full swing.

The wife also drove the Yaris up the hill to her folks 3 times to feed their dog while they were out of town.

I even ended up filling up a few days early as I forgot the wife's new pain meds for her still-healing leg on my desk at work, and had to get up there this morning to pick them up. I hadn't planned on fueling up until this coming Tuesday morning but the extra commute this morning killed that idea and I fueled up on the way home.

518.6 miles on 10.362 gallons equals 50.048 MPG.

 

Nice driving!

 

I'll have to make sure that I still have MY car after next Saturday when I come home from the meet at Oak Creek.

 

Brian, you seem to have mastered hill driving. That's really impressive for a Yaris.

--Walter

 

Great, thanks! It confirmed my suspicions, work is about 300 feet lower than home. Explains why my mileage is usually better going in.

 

I second that, Brian!! :flag:

I didn't do as well as you did but I did surprise myself.

I had to run errands in addition to my haircut (the wife called and insisted I pick up a fruit tray and some ice from the grocery -- then I had to stop to get gas).

Temp at 80F, sunny and partly cloudy, no wind:

1. 44.3mpg for 14.3mi (Home to haircut)
2. 31.0mpg for 1.1mi (Haircut to Cub Foods)
3. 46.4mpg for 15.8mi (Cub Foods to Costco for gas)
4. 38.9mpg for 1.8mi (Costco to home)

So I filled up... kept going until it showed at the top of the filler neck (geez, takes a while to get that far!), and stood back grinning at the amount! I figured I needed 15.3g to fill -- it took 14.92!! :Banane17:

So... new PRs all the way around.

New tank distance: 707.3mi
New fillup difference: 15 days
New best tank: 47.406mpg

And my LFE went up by another tenth!!

Obviously I'm still a bit off with my gallon offset, but I'm pleased as punch that even with the awful driving conditions over the last couple of weeks I still managed to beat the previous tank!

50mpg, here I come!! :woot:

Here's hoping you can catch a 700mi tank too, Ken! :thumbs_up:

 

Checked my tire pressure yesterday on a whim (it's been a few weeks)... and much to my surprise I must have a slow leak or something in the rear left one. It was all the way down to 22! The others were still around the 46/44 where I last filled them. Pumped it back up for now, but need to get that fixed...

Checking out the MPG clinic course with Wayne today. Must've done a little better by osmosis or something. All after the first segment were stop w/o shutdown.

82.9 / 6.9 miles / 84F
97.3 / 2.7 miles / 82F
93.3 / 5.5 miles / 82F <-- clinic loop
81.9 / 2.7 miles / 82F
78.6 / 7.7 miles / 81F
102 / 4.6 miles / 81F

87.0 / 30.1 miles for the day.

The tank is +1.0 to 74.4 / 349 miles / 6 pips.

 

barn. ride horse. home. 65.1

how far can a civic go with 2 bars on the gas gauge?

 

Great job!:Banane47: New PR's feel awesome, don't they? Now, it shouldn't be long until we see the following: 750 mile tank, 18 days between fillups, and 50 mpg's for a tank.

I started my driving when the temp was ~90F and it got as high as 93F and there was very little wind.
1) 59.2-5.1(home to mom's)
2) 155-.7(mom's to Dollar General)
3) 126-5.4(DG to home)
4) 64.3-8.4(home to Kroger's)
5) 77.0-13.3(Kroger's to feed mom's cats)
6) 129-5.3(mom's to home)
Average for today: 78.5. Tank is at 76.1 at 464.8 miles and there are 5 pips left.

 

47.2 @16 mi (round trip, low point -300' below home).
Ashburnham dump.
I can get better mileage going to the center of my town than to the places I go more often because of less elevation drop (-300' vs -750' to -1300').
--Walter

 

82 MPG on the trip home, for 83 average for the day, 59 miles.

 

Did a home tour that took us all over town today ... 34.0 indicated over 104.0 actual (98.3 indicated) miles. Temps 58-64F, winds light & variable except 15-20 mph tailwind on the return leg. Dry except for moderate rain during one ~10 mile stretch.

Was mostly on roads I don't drive regularly. It's interesting how much familiarity helps with some of our techniques. I'm a lot better at timing the pulses, coasts and glides with the lights and the undulations of the roads on my commute than I was on these less familiar roads today. Still was able to do it quite a bit, and better than I could have a couple weeks ago. Really starting to get the hang of all this.

 

The really scary thing was that it was reading over 400 from mom's driveway to the street which was just over .1 miles.

 

Went out to the Henry Ford and Greenfield village for Motor Muster, their classic car show. Pretty much all expressway driving, arrived with a 38.9 average. Got to ride in a 1967 Buick, man is that a nice ride!

Anyway, took my parents to dinner afterwards, then back to my place. (We carpooledish, they drove to my house, I drove to Henry Ford.) 38.7 MPG average so far. Eh.

 

62.9mpg on a bunch of short commute and lots of rain. Oh well, the very rainy weather will make the summer cooler, saving lots more on utilities than the extra gas.

Over a half-mile segment, was going 42mph and passed a blue Prius II.

 

i have been seeing Prii all over the area i live/work in, including two stopped next to each other at a light, and 3 within several miles of each other, going the opposite direction i was going.

 

You bet your boots they do!! All I need is some reasonable traffic to do what I know I can do now... :banane58:

I'm so jazzed right now -- making PRs is great... Doing it when you think you've failed is AWESOME!!! Remember when I said I'd do anything to get it over 40mpg??

50mpg is definitely my goal -- once I'm there I can legitimately say I'm in hybrid territory with my mileage.

Laurie, I know what you mean. The other day I counted seven of them in my work parking lot! Last time I went to my father-in-law's cabin I saw 9 on the way up. Crazy!!

 

It looks like I'm done driving already for the day. My mother-in-law is bringing T-bone steaks and the wife and daughter and her are going to cook them on the charcoal grill along with a few wet hickory chips for added smoke flavor.:woot: I'm going to have to quit typing about that or my keyboard is going to short out from all the drool. Just one round trip to church and back: 56.0 there and 95.6 on the way back at 10.4 miles total for 75.8. Tank is at 5 pips after 475.2 miles at 76.0 mpg.