New record on MPG for me.

[cyronman]

400?

Are you sure you cleared your odometer?!?!

[JHarris1385]

Thats awesome. You must have filled up with about a half gallon left in the tank.....

[CoastieCosta567]

i have the habit to always restart my trip meter everytime i fill up or just simply put gas. i'm so happy yay.

[So-CalVX]

I'm stuck in less-than-280-miles-per-tank-vill!
how the french can I get 18 MPG y'all?

[CoastieCosta567]

well ever sense i have had bad luck with things always braking down on me on my VX or just simply time to replace alot of parts, i have tend to get in to the habit of constently watching and hearing everything my VX does or sounds. so i keep with the maint... all the time, i check everything i can possebly think of like 2-3 times a week and replace anything small and cheap all the time to keep the emissions and fuel consumptions as low as possible. well Thats my secret, i guess thats what have been improving my MPG, if not then i don't know, but i just suggest just to take care of your VX like if it's a real baby and keep it up to date all the time. chance the oil, and fluids, check the pcv valve, intake, temp's on oils, also it depands alot in your driving, not accelerating to fast unless you have to, and stuff like that. thats my guess, there is more, i just can't think of what else i do, oh allways fill up you tank to full, thats another thing i do.

[crager34]

I'm stuck in less-than-280-miles-per-tank-vill!
how the french can I get 18 MPG y'all?

I went from around 280 per tank to over 300 with changing out my EGR valve. Some have just cleaned, but I swapped for new. However, now that I have a lift and bigger tires, I am back to sucking gas as fast as the Colorado river flows.

[Chopper]

I'm stuck in less-than-280-miles-per-tank-vill!
how the french can I get 18 MPG y'all?

Move to a place that's flat. I average about 19 mpg (figured against the pump numbers and the odo) sometimes 20

[CoastieCosta567]

i'm in Cali right now, and i pay the average gas pump at $3.90, this freaken state is expansive, espacially in San Francisco and there is so many hills and mountains here, so i guess i would do even better at florida with my MPG, Hopefully soon i will move back to florida. But yeah the spark plugs where a whole 1/2 inch longer then the normal recommanded plugs.

[snowtrooper1966]

400?

Are you sure you cleared your odometer?!?!

You, sir, crack me up!

James

[cyronman]

You, sir, crack me up!

James

i DID mean trip-ometer, but it looks like y'all knew that.

[nfpgasmask]

Sooner or later I am going to buy a new EGR myself. I want to see if it helps oil consumption as well...

Bart

[VehiGAZ]

Tom, SoCal, Pepino, Cyronman, et alia, you (and I) live in the wrong state to get good gas mileage. We have to pump reformulated gas into our tanks, which returns lower mileage. Coastie gets the good stuff in central Florida - pure, conventional, non-reformulated, non-oxygenated gasoline! Lucky duck!

I fill up on conventional gas in VT and upstate NY whenever possible, and I have seen as high as around 18.3 mpg on the good gas (driving like an old lady after getting 2 speeding tickets within 10 miles of each other on Rt 7 in VT!). Now, I personally have never put 22 gallons into the tank (I'm sputtering before that), but 400 miles per tank is entirely feasible at 18.5 mpg (that's a 21.6 gal fill-up), especially in Florida, where the biggest hills Coastie has to climb are highway overpasses.

I think this topic of conventional vs reformulated gas has become my official soapbox rant.

[Ascinder]

What plugs coastie? How did you know the old ones were too long?

[Zorak]

Coastie gets the good stuff in central Florida - pure, conventional, non-reformulated, non-oxygenated gasoline! Lucky duck!

Hmm, that would explain why I have always gotten at least 18 mpg on my VX (which I did not think was all that great) since I've had it. I feel so special now, almost makes me happy to pay $3.36 a gallon here in good ol central FL.

Of course, 2-3 months from now, if we get one or more hurricanes through here and then we won't be able to get gas at all for days/weeks....but that's another issue.

[JHarris1385]

So I live in Southern, IN right in the county with the BROWN 7.8 RVP but work in KY in the N RFG w/ Ethanol GREEN AND WHITE stripes. So which one is better and if I step out of my county into the WHITE am I better off at any station?

I thought Coastie was in Cali.....