2016+ Gas mileage

Averaging 18 mixed. Saw 23 highway for road trips but keep your foot out past 65 mph.
TERD SPORT 6MT
265 / 70 / 17 KO2 s. C Rated.
89 fuel, 3500 ft elev, removed front lower valance (saw about a 10-15 mile drop per tank with that gone)

 

Well it took a while to get used to the transmission and it still annoys me sometimes but if I drive it easy to normal it's great. (I'm a gas mileage nerd)

Other than that I love the truck....Rides wonderful, smooth, roomy, decent tunes, hopefully reliable and looks awesome....IMHO...lol

There for a while this summer I was considering trading for a manual but I decided to ride this on out and so I've been pretty satisfied.

 

I've been averaging 21.1 and now have 7500 miles since June

 

Just hit the 10000 mile mark..... did a few long trips, commute is mostly 25 miles, half city, half interstate.
So far, not bad in my opinion....averaging 21-22 per tank, and hit 23 on a long extended run to Charleston

 

I have a 2016 tacoma 4x4 with a lift kit and a camper shell while toting cat litter buckets that I keep forgetting to take out. I get "average" 16.3-18.1 and I have not found a single ounce of reason why. I can be stuck in traffic and arrive with 18 mph or I can be all highway in cruise control and barely get 16. There are times when I get 13.4 mpg. All roads here are flat, elevation is the same. The only variable is temperature. Sometimes like today is a cold day so it is 85F and I just came from a store and it said 18 mpg. Yesterday coming back from work when it was 81 I got 17 mpg. Shrugs.

I know one thing for sure that my digital "remaining" is full of it. With full tank it will say "distance to empty is 384 miles". 306 miles later I am arriving on fumes. I put about 18.2 gallons into that tank too. I figured it could not be that good so digital thing is wrong (granted it always shows ideal conditions etc etc). What I have not yet established is whether "warning low fuel x miles left" is accurate. Yesterday I arrived with 3 miles left on the dial. For all I know it could have gone another 30 miles or another 30 feet.

Edit: I have 32 psi in my offroad tires.

 

TRD OR 4X4 V6 Ext. cab, auto trans., stock with 15K mls. I travel often on a totally flat highway (I5 Northern CA) no load, or passengers, speeds between 65 and 70 mls/hr, I only get 19.5 mls. per gallon. (Not happy)

 

Dunno if I'm seeing a pattern here but it seems like the OR is doing much worse on the highway than SR5/Sport. Again, thinking tires and dam but I could be wrong.

 

Sounds about like mine. I decided to see one day and arrived at the gas station with 3 miles on the distance to empty meter and it took 17.8 gallons at the pump. So it still had about 3 gallons left which is the reserve on these trucks from what I can tell. So it could easily go another 30 miles and not be out. I think Toyota does this on purpose of course for those that love to run on empty all the time (not me).

 

Not sure how you guys are getting such good gas mileage?!! I average around 16 !!! That's with 70/30 driving. 265 BFG A/T, 3" lift.

 

2016 Tacoma DCSB TRD OR 4x4 3" lift w/ 285/75/16.... 12.5 mpg travel every where with in a 5 mile radius. Freeway driving 70-75 21 mpg

 

21-22mpg before transmission TSB, now 18-19mpg after, also not happy. If enough people don't achieve EPA estimates and make a fuss about it, Toyota could see a class action lawsuit on their hands...

 

I fall into category of people who like to arrive to a gas station on empty tank. That being said my definition of empty varies. When I am towing my travel trailer, my "empty" is no less than 1/4 of a tank.

This past summer before the accident on my old tacoma I was hauling to a campground and had assumed that I would start this long stretch on a quarter tank, have plenty of miles to spare to fill up half way. Boy was I wrong. Gas station was gone, as in demolition gone. Only option was to keep going because I was halfway. And so I went biting my tongue... look down on the dial and tank was empty as in zero. Passed 3 gas stations... all closed. 2am on a major commute road... I made it on quarter tank while towing about 75 miles and my truck literally stalled with a gas station in sight. I just rolled right into it with inertia. Never again.

This becomes easier when I daily drives because all gas stations are open so when I tow my absolute minimum is 1/4 of a tank and when I daily drive I arrive with a few miles to spare. I don't know why...same thing with my mower. I like to run it dry to get all that nasty gas out of there. Don't know if it is doing any difference but that is how I have been driving for past 18 odd years.

 

I don't think you can see the forest because of the trees.

 

After reading these post, I've come to realize.......

Looks like all lift kits and bigger off-road tires kill gas mileage.

 

Just over 1000 miles now and averaging about 16.4 MPG

 

Yep.

 

I've had an opportunity to run my DCLB OR on long highway road trips both in stock form and with some mods. I bought the truck in July and just rolled 12,000 miles on it (4.5 months tops)

1. Summer trip to Colorado- 850 miles, almost all of it western highway posted speeds 80mph. Bone stock truck less than 2,000 miles on the odo- average was 16mpg
2. Returned today from a 3,800 mile 6 day round trip from Montana to Ohio (and back). Cooper ST/Maxx tires and a modest 1.5" lift, armor under the truck. There are 2 distinct mpg stories. Western states- 80mph posted stretches- 13mpg. The BEST MPG I achieved was on a stretch of highway in Illinois, including south of Chicago. Posted max speed 60-65mph, but average speed less due to traffic- 18.3mpg

It is fair to say that this vehicle will perform fairly poorly (MPG wise) at speeds in excess of 65 mph.

I certainly did not expect to achieve the rated 21mpg+ highway mileage after mods, but I wasn't expecting the overall mpg performance to be that bad at our highway speeds. MPG in my truck literally falls off a cliff over 65mph whether stock or not.

 

Took my Dbl Cab, Long Bed TRD-OR, with ARE MX series camper shell, on a 1800 mile road trip last week, averaging 70 to 85 MPH, and came out with an average MPG of 18.5, RPM gets around between 2000 to 3000, and when I hit 85 MPH, goes up to 5k. On my regular use around town, I can get between 21 to 23 mpg, top freeway speed between 60-65 MPH, maintaining between 1400 to 1800 rpm. The road going to my destination had a lot of uphill trips, requiring more energy, than the road trip back home. Had to fill up 3x heading up, and 2x heading back home. I would say its not bad. the Tacoma had a lot of power going up on I-15, and handling the curves on Pacheco pass. If I had taken the Sienna, it would probably turtle its way up the I-15, backing up traffic.

 

2017 DCSB Sr5. Completely stock with 2500 miles. I have averaged 21.5 to 22. Worst was 20.5, with lots of stop and go, and warming the truck up. I would say I average around 60 to 65 MPH, but live in a fairly rural area. I noticed my mpg takes a drastic drop much above 70.

 

I have not bothered to check mine. I have seen numbers like 4 and 24 on the computer. I'm guessing it gets about the same as the truck I traded in...a 2009 4 cylinder Suzuki Equator. Added 4x4 and v6 to this one too.