Ride a motorcycle!!
However, if you change out your front wheel bearings maybe you will immediatly see a 2 - 3 MPG increase like it did. :p
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Ride a motorcycle!!
However, if you change out your front wheel bearings maybe you will immediatly see a 2 - 3 MPG increase like it did. :p
Before/after #'s?Quote:
Originally Posted by crager34
I'm pretty sure he meant that he got better mileage BEFORE...:yesgray:Quote:
Originally Posted by 89Vette
I mean...why else post the results...:_confused
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Originally Posted by crager34
I was shocked about how consistant I was at 15 MPH city and highway. Quite literally, two days after the wheel bearing change out.... 17. The only change were the bearings. Two days later and I am sitting at 1/2 tank with 175 miles on the OD.
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Originally Posted by 89Vette
How about half a tank 190 miles?
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Originally Posted by crager34
And we all appreciate you posting...once again...that you have the absolute best mileage ever...experienced...by anyone...living in the VX solar system...:thanx:Quote:
Originally Posted by blacksambo
Can't even BEGIN to tell ya...:smilewink
Hey, I thought *I* had the best gas mileage ever! :p During my trip to/from Moab I saw a low of 8.4 on Fins & Things and a high of 20.8 on the highway.
I still can't believe how good gas mileage can be when my VX doesn't have to work against that stupid, constant, obnoxious Oklahoma crosswind - my worst mileage on the highway during my trip was within the OK borders (15.7). :_mecker: Heck, I got 15.2 during the run through La Sal Pass (including the highway time there and back, of course.) :rolleyes:
I got similar mileage around Moab. When I filled up when I reached Moab I got my best tank of the trip @ 20 MPG. For the 150 miles total I drove while in Moab and on the trails I got a whopping 7 MPG.Quote:
Originally Posted by RickOKC
Smiles per gallon however, were the best I've ever gotten and that's what counts in Moab! :smilewink
LOL, I have never check mpg on the trail...I know it won't make me any happier to know.
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Originally Posted by Ldub
I'm glad you are so happy.
does 17 mpg seem all that unreasonable for a vx? I was getting 15 if i took it easy, and that doesnt include calculating for the bigger tires, I could have been round 16mpg.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ldub
(190/11=17.3)
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Originally Posted by blacksambo
N-k........:_thinkingQuote:
Originally Posted by pbkid
But I don't recall using the word happy, or unreasonable, in my post...:_confused
Ahhh, damn semantics...Quote:
Originally Posted by Ldub
Man I really dont miss that 5mpg loss between my vx and my runner. :P
Hows that for incredible mileage? 20 mpg with 4 doors and a whole buncha steel and rubber wrapped around it :naughty:
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Originally Posted by Ldub
But.... a picture is worth a thousand words :bwgy:
Knowing how notoriously un-accurate our fuel gauges are, I wouldn't get all excited until you fill up to confirm the usage.
PK
Wow! That's ESPECIALLY impressive considering your bigazz lift and bigazz tires!Quote:
Originally Posted by Etfren
Darn right - I now understand that!Quote:
Originally Posted by Etfren
That's because you're not nuts. :laughing: I wouldn't have known my trail mileage but I was curious about my highway mileage on my trip there so I kept tracking it. I refilled the tank every evening and kept obsessively keeping records or I would never have known what my mileage would have been while creeping, idling, waiting, etc. ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by BigSwede
True dat. All my calculations were based on odometer & full-tank to full-tank readings so I'm confident my math is right! :)Quote:
Originally Posted by PK
WHAT? Dude, I have the best MPG, am at 200,037,483,628,387,464 MPG as we speak, and thats not even h/way miles, don't get me started there. :p
Rick, etfren is also driving a manual tranny ;-)
My runner would be somewhere around 15 mpg if it was an auto
Now we're getting somewhere...:thumbup:Quote:
Originally Posted by blacksambo
if you would kindly post a picture of your mileage, you can save yourself a lot of typing in the future...:laughing:...:flower::flower:
Yeah, but unfortunately I didn't get that good the rest of the trip. Got that one lucky tank of 20 MPG, one more of 18 MPG and the other 6-7 were all at 16 MPG. That's with accounting for the bigger tires in my maths.Quote:
Originally Posted by RickOKC
Also had the TOD turned off the whole way home, didn't seem to make any difference mileage wise. Although that's not all that surprising considering I was cruising at highway speeds all day.
I would hate to see what I'd be getting with an auto. I would love to find a 6-speed that would work. Have a nice low 1st gear for crawling and a long 6th gear for cruising.Quote:
Originally Posted by pbkid