27.2 Miles Per Gallon Not on Highway

What if OP drives an automatic? I think math is for the birds anyway. Keep relying on your iPhone!

 

Manual math, as in "calculations done yourself" not as in Manual Transmission.


Besides, he HAS a manual transmission.

 

I kid, I kid! In a thread titled "27.2 MPG Not on highway", did you expect to take anything seriously? There have to be a few smartass remarks

 

True. Mea Culpa

 

de nada.

 

First off, i know i dont get 27.2 mpg. If that were true id be driving 490 miles every fill up. I used that title to catch attention. Second, i always manually calculate my mpgs using math and math is one of my strengths. There came a point in time when i calculated that i was getting in 22mpg range and i got excited. Then one day i plugged into my ecu and it read 27.2 for a little while and it made me happy. My reader may have been wrong and i dont go to bed at night thinking "oh boy i get 27.2mpg all the time" but all i wanted to do was express to the world that for one section of the road i thought i was getting the mpgs people only dream of... Thank you for making it clear that im an idiot and an asshole. I guess what iv learned from all this is how to make a lot of people angry and that you cant truly trust ecu guages for mpg. And just to summarize and clarify go back to my very first post where i state that "during off-road trips iv easily gone close to 400 miles per tank of gas... Driving around 30mph to 50mph." That came from one trip where i drove close to 370 on one tank so i already know it takes extreme driving measures to get into the low 20's... Then i took screenshots during a longer period of driving i think they were mostly accurate staying at 18, going into the low 20's but occasionally spiking for a bit (which btw, is how you get an average. You log numbers add them together then divide by how many numbers you entered) would it not be unheard of to have a number like say 27.2 to contribute to an average? you guys probably get those numbers too... When you drive down a tank of gas, refill and divide by the amount you put back in thats just giving you an average. And to reiterate, 27.2 was not the average, just one number logged during a short period of driving. Then theres the question of calibration... Well if my gauge is not calibrated then this was all a waste of time.

 

Don't get down on yourself and don't assume all of the people on this forum will shoot down your hopes and dreams. tacomaworld is the only site i've been to where everyone who drives a $33,000 truck is suddenly a scientist, gun expert, and professional off-roader upon joining.

I just think you shot yourself in the foot not knowing the consequences of embellishing your subject just a tish. apparently, taco owners are wolves and you made yourself out to be a very fuel efficient sheep.

If it means anything to you at all, when I was living in tennessee, i was getting 21 mpg. On my drive from tennessee to maryland, i got a whopping 24-26 mpg for a stretch of it because all the stars were lined up, and gravity was just right, and I just happened to have a very flat stretch of highway. but now, with average driving I'm only getting 19.9 with no mods. its part of owning a quality truck with not-great mpg.

p.s. i don't think you're an asshole or an idiot; youre just one of many americans that trusts technology too much. but then again, who doesnt these days?

 

X2.
Although if that bold part is true then you haven't been spending much time on the internet...

OP;
I wasn't trying to make you feel like an idiot, just saying that your gauge wasn't working accurately and describing a method to confirm it. It may be an issue of calibration, but if you were revving over 5000 and in stop & go conditions it seems like that's a really big variance to just be a calibration issue, which is why I suspected a malfunction.
Of course, I don't have an electronic gauge or gps system, so I can't say for certain that a calibration issue could cause that much a variance.

Don't get too discouraged at the response; most of use are nice guys who disguise it under a veneer or douchebaggery, with a few of the opposite running around getting sniped by the mods.