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Originally Posted by xkimsungminx
so should i wait till 15k to 20k miles before i use the FP60 as well?? because i used to use Plus gas at chevron before i knew it didnt do crap and that putting regular was better, and i think it's been about 3 or 4 fill ups since i've started using regular.. you think that would make a difference as well?
You can use the FP60 at anytime. Yeah, the premium fuel doesn't do anything other than waste money
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Rep Power: 787 fp60 doesn't matter. even the lc20 says it can be used after 1k miles but i would still wait 15-20k cause thats when the motor is fully broken in.
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Originally Posted by genexrocket
yup, just as the title says; I have reached my high score of 41 mpg from this week's tank of gas!!! My fuel tank is about 12 gallons and my low fuel light comes on when theres about 2 gallons of fuel left (kinda easy to figure out since when you put in gas, the pump stops at 10 gallons). So by doing a little bit of quick math; my light came on at around 410 miles which equates to 41mpg!!! correct me if i'm wrong cause i'm lovin my car right now 
who cares if yur car is 2 seconds faster in the 0-60 than mine; i get 41mpg!!
i'm wondering if anyone else gets high mpgs like this too?
who cares if yur car is 2 seconds faster in the 0-60 than mine; i get 41mpg!!
i'm wondering if anyone else gets high mpgs like this too?
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Rep Power: 787 is that all highway miles? you really can't count anything else. city driving varies way too much. usually in the city i've gotten anywhere from 15-26mpg. Highway is up in the 40s. You can get the best by driving 55mph all highway miles.
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Rep Power: 0 hm.. really?? how would i just count highway miles?? just drive some place really far till my tank goes to the light? cuz well i guess i do half and half city and highway. and i guess i've never really had an opportunity to REALLy calculate my highway mileage cuz when i do drive from LA to home or home to LA it's normally like stop and go traffic, hm.. so i guess
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Rep Power: 0 haha but do you really drive 55mph all the time?? i mean i'm normally in a rush or something when i'm driving highway but i tend to drive anywhere between like... 65mph to around 80mph
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Originally Posted by Mustang5.0HO
I get 13 mpg 
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Rep Power: 787 ya nobody drives 55. you'll get run off the road. In chicago the limit is 55 but even if you're going 65 90% of cars will be passing you like you're stopped. If you want to do quick tests, fill the tank to full and then drive on the freeway at least 50 miles. Come back and fill up again (make sure you goto the same station and maybe pump too). See how much gas you bought and then do the math like if you drove 50miles and got 1.5 gallons gas, its 50/1.5=33mpg
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Rep Power: 0 hm.. even using a different pump at the same gas station might make a difference? why's that? is it just one huuuge tank underneath the gas station supplying each pump?
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Originally Posted by xkimsungminx
hm.. even using a different pump at the same gas station might make a difference? why's that? is it just one huuuge tank underneath the gas station supplying each pump?
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Originally Posted by xkimsungminx
oh shizah serious?? hm.. so i would need to fill up on every single pump at that gas station to know which one gives me the most gas??
Or you can just take an average of 5 tanks. The Ford manual actually says to average 5 tanks of fuel together to calcualtes milage.
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Rep Power: 261 I'm at school right now so I drive about an hour and a half from columbia to STL at about 80-90 and then the short trips to walmart and things like that and my last tank i got 36.4mpg(lx manual). I love it right now, i was so happy when i saw that.
I'm curious to see what my mpg would be if i drove 55 all the way but im never gonna drive that slow on I-70
I'm curious to see what my mpg would be if i drove 55 all the way but im never gonna drive that slow on I-70
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So far the max was 47MG, at speed between 35 mi/h (20%) and 65 mi/h (80%)
With City driving and highway misx 36-37MPG.
The last tank can come out as a new record, becouse I was Using 99% freeway up to now, drivind constantly at 65 mi/h (it is posible in Nevada).
I am almost sure that at 55mi/h can get even better milage, but no roads around to test. Maybe somebody in Nevada (the highways are so empty) can due it.
With City driving and highway misx 36-37MPG.
The last tank can come out as a new record, becouse I was Using 99% freeway up to now, drivind constantly at 65 mi/h (it is posible in Nevada).
I am almost sure that at 55mi/h can get even better milage, but no roads around to test. Maybe somebody in Nevada (the highways are so empty) can due it.
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Originally Posted by Jrfish007
I get 15-20... don't buy a V8 if you are worried about gas lol.
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Originally Posted by Mustang5.0HO
lol..you really dont see how much gas your using when your having too much fun driving it...and I drive my car HARD...lol and fast...Im lucky I get 12-15mpg...lol But I see it this way....I rather trow a 10 on gas every once in a while in my car knowing its going to my car than waste 10 dollars on a burger,fries, and a coke....
I wish I could just put a 10 on gas, I spend about $60-80 every 2 weeks on gas, that would be a 10 everyother day lol. But it's fun like you said.
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Rep Power: 0 hm.. wow you guys spend alot of money on gas haha how much is gas where you guys live? the cheveron i always go to that's like less than a mile from my house is $2.71 for regular 
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Rep Power: 0 OH MY!! are you seroius??? oh wait.. oh yea i forgot, almost every other state has cheaper gas than cali. but yea 2.71 is the cheapest i've seen around where i live that's why haha
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Originally Posted by Jrfish007
I get 15-20... don't buy a V8 if you are worried about gas lol.
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Rep Power: 0 Yes. This Civics can get a very good MPG.
I have 67000+ mi on my civic and get very good MPG.
Maybe somebody alredy mention this, but here is a good contest for how many miles you can get out of a tank (13.2 galo or 50l) of regular gas. Check out this link:
http://www.canadiandriver.com/articles/pw/50-litre.htm
I have 67000+ mi on my civic and get very good MPG.
Maybe somebody alredy mention this, but here is a good contest for how many miles you can get out of a tank (13.2 galo or 50l) of regular gas. Check out this link:
http://www.canadiandriver.com/articles/pw/50-litre.htm
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Rep Power: 0 I did replace my OEM sparkplugs with iridium, which probably gain some + MPG, but I am not sure yet how much, becouse I did only 3 tank of gas after the spark plug change. As I gain more statistics I will post it.
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Rep Power: 0 yeah i definatley love the civics on my recent trip to NYC it is about 500 miles from house to house but i made it to jersey before i had to fill up again. i was doin 85 the whole way and i think if i remeber correctly i was in the 43-44mpg range. then i drove my dads pilot the next week for the same trip and he gets 22mpgs tops. that thing has the potential to get higher mpg if honda didnt use 1 7/8 exhaust piping on a 3 liter v6.
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Originally Posted by xkimsungminx
hm.. wow you guys spend alot of money on gas haha how much is gas where you guys live? the cheveron i always go to that's like less than a mile from my house is $2.71 for regular
right now gas is at $2.03 a gallon. But about $0.75 of that is taxes, which I get back once tax time comes, so once I get my taxes back, that gas will cost me $1.28 a gallon.
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Rep Power: 0 wow.. i feel like we're getting jipped hardcore for gas in cali now -_-;; i didnt know all you guys outside cali got such low prices on gas AHH!! Stupid arnold schwartzenegar, or however the heck you spell his name that mother funker -_-;; ahh
