400+ miles with no light... yeah, yeah, I know

Gotta love it when summer gas is in but it's not yet warm enough to use the A/C. I've posted a few 400+ mile tanks before but hadn't yet clipped 400+ miles without the low fuel light popping on. Hell, I still had almost a full gallon to go before the light would have come on (usually pops on at 3 gallons left).

Post 'em if you got 'em... BTW, it's pollen season here in NC, thus the yellow crap all over my steering column and gauges.

*Queue the crap about it making no sense trying to get good mileage in a truck and that I should've bought a Prius*
Bob should make an MPG forum and us mileage freaks would go hang out there

23.6mpg... just .1mpg shy of my best for an entire tank.

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so when your fuel guage goes just above the full mark, how many gallons is that?

 

Um, that's an Accord, right? 530 what, PM in the afternoon?
Doesn't that show 145.8 miles?

~21 gallons

 

I would probably reach that mark if I did any highway driving in my commute. Even though I only drive 12 miles to work/school, its 100% stop go the entire way. I average 17 mpgs.

 

Hey, you started it

 

I thought that Chris4x4 dude was banned???

 

He's unbannable, he'll just ban you right back for banning him. That's what he does, mythical...

 

Yep, they tried but he's a clever one and keeps finding his way back in

 

Ooh I love a challenge! Make it to 400 without a light... gonna be tough, though last tank I almost got to 380 and that was on the winter crud.

As for those Honda gauges - can't trust 'em! I had a tank last summer where it came off full at 140 miles, read lower than empty at 280, and I filled up at 363 with 3 gallons left in the doggone thing.

 

Hmm. This seems like a challenge. I am going to be heading out of town this weekend for a long 700 km(one way) or so trip. Most of the speed limit along the highway is going to bring me below 2000 rpm. The last time I did the trip I did 575(358 miles) km's before the light come on, this was driving above 2000 rpm etc. So I should be able to do more, it would be great if I did. It's going to be hard since that I am going to be going through the Rocky Mountains. I will try my best.

400 Miles is 644 km's. Challenge accepted.

 

Man....i dont know how you guys are doing it. I cant even crack 300.

 

In my case the roads were really bad. I wasn't able to really drive all that fast, including the speed limit at a lot of points. Once I adjusted my driving I started getting better kilometres out of my tank. With just my city driving I am pushing out an extra 50 km's per tank with keeping it under 2000 rpms. The first tank in city I did it with I got 480 km's(298 Miles) instead of 430(267 miles).

So keep that in mind. You'll save some gas and push further in miles on a tank if you keep it under 2000 rpms. I found that keeping it under 97 km/h(60.28 MPH) I found that my rpms were below 2000.

 

damn i got 310 and thats with a offroading trip!

 

i filled it and calculated for the first time this week.. reached 340 when the light turend on... Hopefully with the AFE drop in i ordered ill get 340.5 hahahah