2015-03-24 |
258 |
6.55 |
$2.35 |
39.39 |
"Top-off from purchase. IN>STL trip home - mid 70s MPH for most of trip, little hypermiling (dad was following in TL)... thing is screaming >3k RPM (questioning things when I saw MPG!) Used Torque App but little hypermiling." |
2015-04-02 |
423 |
9.78 |
$2.19 |
43.25 |
"Used Torque ~80% of time through 236 mi. Installed UltraGauge which showed 44MPG for second half. Now I have to re-learn how to drive a car for FE with 60% less power and 30% less weight" |
2015-04-12 |
467 |
10.21 |
$2.3 |
45.74 |
"New engine air filter. Still learning the car. Very little AC, rainy season. UG: 49.6MPG on 468.9 mi, Tweaked correction > 1.081 for next tank." |
2015-04-27 |
510 |
10.21 |
$2.3 |
49.95 |
"Tires from 32 to 44 at end of prev tank. Disconnected air box flex tube upstream of filter. UG: 47.8 MPG @ 62.5 MPH. Did not readjust calibration" |
2015-05-05 |
423 |
9.24 |
$2.46 |
45.78 |
"UG showed 44.7mpg, changed cal to 1.06. Battery died at least once." |
2015-05-14 |
304 |
6.73 |
$2.44 |
45.17 |
"51R battery conversion @ 200mi (Costco does not sell 26R/ Group 21 in my area), died a couple times. EOC greatly reduced especially since quite rainy. Sis and Dad borrowed car at least once each. UG 46.3 no change to cal." |
2015-05-29 |
451 |
8.96 |
$2.5 |
50.33 |
"left tires at 41-42psi. Started pulling mower on platform once per week (and still getting 50+ mpg trips), very few daycare runs this tank. UG @ 48.4mpg, 63.4 mph avg which can't be correct.
Edit: I originally suspected this was a short fill and came to believe it at subsequent fill-up. adding 1/2 ga to this tank would drop mpg to 47.7" |
2015-06-16 |
506 |
9.89 |
$2.72 |
51.16 |
"Summer work hours (4x10s) + no daycare pickup/dropoff, so different route and no AC. Pretty hot, little rain. UG 56.3 MPG 81mph (obviously incorrect). Changed distance cal 510.17 to 509.8 mi (=.999). Changed 9.069 Ga to 9.500 Ga (=1.110 mpg corr). Now that I look at notes, I think previous tank was short fill - did not correct any numbers (but shifting 1/2 gallon makes this tank look about right at 53.9mpg)" |
2015-07-07 |
507 |
9.8 |
$2.76 |
51.73 |
"AC maybe once - almost all work trips. Much rain." |
2015-07-21 |
456 |
9.17 |
$2.64 |
49.73 |
"was running mid 50s avg; hot but no AC, then started using car as weekend family car" |
2015-08-04 |
513 |
9.84 |
$2.43 |
52.13 |
"maybe 90% commuting. 2 long family trips with ac took UG avg from 55 to 51. Nasty afternoon traffic last 10 days." |
2015-08-19 |
526 |
10.06 |
$2.39 |
52.29 |
"Couple kid pickups with AC; no family trips; couple errands; some bad traffic" |
2015-09-02 |
488 |
9.391 |
$2.56 |
51.96 |
"pretty much same - mostly commuting, 3 or 4 kid pickups with ac; couple bad traffic days." |
2015-09-16 |
505 |
9.99 |
$2.23 |
50.55 |
"Two misc. carpools with AC & no EOC. Two short trailer trips, Two platform trips w/ mower ~100mi total - seems to not affect MPG." |
2015-09-30 |
523 |
9.79 |
$1.91 |
53.42 |
"Great weather & opportunities. Only one rain, warm. Maybe 2 AC partials. Was targeting 56MPG avg with 60MPG trips. After 3 days had a drop of over 10% FE; actually thought something was broken. Came back on Tuesday and had 3 great segments to finish tank. Needed to tighten nut behind the wheel. Last three tanks MPG correction at 11% yielding average error of -0.4%" |
2015-10-30 |
479.8 |
10.36 |
$2.26 |
46.31 |
"two dealer tows with approximately 2x5.1=10.2 free miles (two failed ECMs). Kill switch installation plus some odometer testing. Corrected trip distance by backing out 10.2 miles." |
2015-11-13 |
513 |
9.985 |
$2.15 |
51.38 |
"First full tank on kill switch with a bit of testing and trying new strategies (90-day at 51.9 if previous tank dropped)" |
2015-11-27 |
522 |
10.06 |
$1.95 |
51.89 |
"" |
2015-12-14 |
511 |
10.128 |
|
50.45 |
"3 days training in non-optimized route. Couple bad traffic days." |
2015-12-27 |
457 |
9.414 |
$1.98 |
48.54 |
"Ridiculous rain. Lights almost 100% of commuting. Implemented overnight charging after battery died once or twice. I've compromised and raised my minimum bumpstart speed on highway." |
2016-01-08 |
453 |
9.354 |
$1.7 |
48.43 |
"still laid off on low speed bumpstarting." |
2016-01-22 |
446 |
9.502 |
$1.56 |
46.94 |
"Cold, some snow, much lights." |
2016-02-03 |
454 |
8.695 |
$1.54 |
52.21 |
"Relatively warm & dry. Seemed to have more beneficial tailwind than normal." |
2016-02-14 |
438 |
9.435 |
$1.4 |
46.42 |
"cal changed from 1.110 to 1.082" |
2016-03-01 |
473 |
10.06 |
$1.51 |
47.02 |
"Emissions inspection failed - had to drive it hard without EOC ~15 miles for Catalyst to pass internal check in OBD2 diagnostics. Swapped from Scanguage to Torque app to monitor diagnostics. Failed inspection since our state allows only 1 ""incomplete"" for my 2008; I had two: ""Evaporative System"" and ""Catalyst""." |
2016-03-10 |
482 |
9.66 |
$1.569 |
49.9 |
"abnormaly warm and dry weather for March. Less headlights as well." |
2016-03-25 |
512 |
9.644 |
$1.8 |
53.09 |
"" |
2016-04-10 |
436 |
8.579 |
$1.9 |
50.82 |
"I think this was a deep fill since it showed such error on gauge (~5% by recent MPG error)" |
2016-04-25 |
546 |
9.565 |
$1.78 |
57.08 |
"Error about 1 point off from normal going the other way as expected since tank started more full than the refill at the end. Unfortunately this best and longest tank gets a big fat asterisk. I did put down a 55.6 on the UG, however (which is normally conservative by 1%). I did not do any adjustments on the numbers." |
2016-05-10 |
553 |
9.827 |
$1.96 |
56.27 |
"UG error back to normal; no asterisk required." |
2016-06-09 |
607.3 |
10.97 |
|
55.36 |
"Tested fuel capacity. Note to others keep more than 1 gallon in your portable tank! It was not enough to submerge fuel sump in order to purge air. Fuel consumption and distance corrected based on the two partial fills + fuel consumed traveling to refill station on three cylinders. So, when the engine died I had gone 607.3 miles on 10.97 gallons." |
2016-07-18 |
585 |
10.031 |
$2.26 |
58.32 |
"good tank. Only 1 or 2 errands. May have hit 60mpg to and from work every time" |
2016-08-03 |
550 |
9.968 |
$2.1 |
55.18 |
"2 AC trips with the wife & kids ~80 mi. pulled trailer once. Bit of rain." |
2016-08-18 |
554 |
9.88 |
$1.85 |
56.07 |
"1 big rain, 2 bike trips, 2 mower trips, 1 short family trip" |
2016-09-02 |
542 |
9.658 |
$1.99 |
56.12 |
"tons of short trips - updating rental unit. Bettery got low on me a couple times; started playing with headlights off at stops and started charging at least twice/week." |
2016-09-27 |
491 |
9.6 |
$1.93 |
51.15 |
"more trips to apt. pulled trailer a few times. Back to normal schedule at end of tank." |
2016-10-09 |
512 |
9.407 |
$1.94 |
54.43 |
"Couple cold mornings (upper 40s, low 50s), lights almost every leg now, but more typical driving schemes" |
2016-10-26 |
541 |
10.548 |
$2.08 |
51.29 |
"" |
2016-11-11 |
512 |
9.728 |
$2.17 |
52.63 |
"" |
2016-11-28 |
483 |
9.41 |
$1.88 |
51.33 |
"colder yet. changed display, started tracking intake and engine temps." |
2016-12-12 |
436 |
8.901 |
$1.9 |
48.98 |
"very cold. Started parking outside. Battery seems unhappy." |
2016-12-22 |
444 |
10.344 |
$1.9 |
42.92 |
"cold as hell. Last tank parking outside. Had one tire low (~28psi) at end of tank. Intake temp consistantly between 5 and 8 degrees above ambient. Let the car warm up a bit before doing EOC in morning. Battery definitely pissed." |
2017-04-27 |
467.8 |
8.943 |
$2.159 |
52.31 |
"Finally back on road after clutch pressure plate failure. Swapped battery. Pulling mower or bike about 33% of trips which loses maybe 10% each trip, so I might be up a couple MPG without. Belly pan and engine splash shield not yet reinstalled." |
2017-05-10 |
472 |
9.022 |
$2.32 |
52.32 |
"Couple trips with failed Crankshaft Position Sensor. Couple with trailer, bike, and platform." |
2017-05-31 |
559 |
9.732 |
$2.12 |
57.44 |
"Installed alternator bypass at beginning and used it about 1/3 of the time. Installed AGM battery at end." |
2017-06-16 |
556 |
9.464 |
$2.2 |
58.75 |
"Belly pan reinstalled early in tank. (1) ~40 mile golf trip with friends and AC. Nice to know it still works. Great weather - good and hot." |
2017-07-09 |
532 |
9.721 |
$2.2 |
54.73 |
"UG error 5 pt delta (UG showed 57.3); either deep fill or previous fill was shallow. TBD." |
2017-07-18 |
515 |
9.864 |
$1.88 |
52.21 |
"was holding a 60 MPG avg, then ~140mi of trips to get kids and haul friends + bikes." |
2017-08-08 |
558 |
9.136 |
$2.08 |
61.08 |
"great conditions; few chores and rain. Need to start adjusting for battery charging. UG error back within 1% with (my normal) gas pump" |
2017-08-23 |
560 |
9.406 |
$2.3 |
59.54 |
"first tank capturing full kwh battery charging (2.9kwh = $0.38). Still using 6A charger. Used 15A charger once and forgot to kill it before bed; that night used 0.5kwh which is approx double. (2.9kwh)/(32.78kwh/ga e10) = .09ga > 59.0 mpge (I think)" |
2017-09-12 |
581 |
10.121 |
$2.26 |
57.41 |
"much colder. Lights in morning (with alternator charging).
2.3kWH charging > 57.0 MPGe" |
2017-10-02 |
597 |
9.755 |
$2.38 |
61.2 |
"about as optimized as its going to get. 2.4kwh charging > 60.7 MPGe." |
2017-10-17 |
568 |
9.778 |
$2.38 |
58.09 |
"much colder. Lights on in morning with alternator. A couple side trips with passengers." |
2017-11-01 |
507 |
9.56 |
$2.24 |
53.03 |
"" |
2017-11-18 |
490 |
9.044 |
$2.23 |
54.18 |
"" |
2017-12-08 |
443 |
9.689 |
|
45.72 |
"lost previous receipt. some non-commuter driving with family and friends" |
2017-12-20 |
485 |
9.836 |
$2.4 |
49.31 |
"" |
2018-01-09 |
413 |
9.062 |
$2.12 |
45.57 |
"super freaking cold" |
2018-01-22 |
440 |
9.304 |
$2.16 |
47.29 |
"" |
2018-02-07 |
499 |
10.134 |
$2.36 |
49.24 |
"" |