another "crappy miles per gallon" thread

[sstarrx3]

Scott is right! I purchased my Titan on October 25th and Got 14.5 on the dealer tank. I have since filled it up 3 times, after the Nov 1st winter gas change. The second and third tank I got 13.3 and 13.7. I drive 42 miles per day to and from work. Mostly stop and go conjestion on the interstate, in Portland, Oregon. To note as well, if you live in the winter climates you will get worse milage in the cold weather.

[KL99SEA]

Originally Posted by wareagle

how are you calculating your mpg? One person here was dividing the full 28 gallons in the tank by the number of miles they went every time and that is not correct. I am sure you already know this, but you shoud set your trip odometer to zero the next time you fill up and at the next gas station trip you should divide your number of miles on that tank by the number of gallons it took to fill it up, not the full 28 gallons that it can hold. I generally go 380 miles / 22.3 gallons = 17.04mpg and I am always in atlanta stop and crawl traffic. BTW I am not trying to insult your intelligence by saying you don't know how to calculate mpg, but your numbers seem REALLY low. I only get those kind of numbers when towing something.

I used exact gallons added to the 10th of a gallon. Here is an example of the first few fillups

209 miles 17.26 gallons
502 24.4
798 24.01
1019 18.19
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1019 / 83.86 = 12.15 mpg

[Las Vegas Off Road]

I just completed a cross country trip from Detroit, MI to Las Vegas, NV, total miles travelled 2,123, gals of gas used 155.6, if I'm figuring this out correctly that's 13.64 MPG. Good ride, Off Road model, had a partial load in the bed, not pulling anything.