Improving Gas Mileage

On average i get 15 mpg in the city and with gas being so overpriced its burning a hole in my wallet. Anyone have a suggestion on how to improve mpg?

 

Drive slow, keep engine under 2k RPM.

 

Man I thought mine was bad at 18mpg. I thought that’s why we got a sluggish 6cyl and tranny that hunts for gears. Try runnin premium a few tanks see if it improves gas mileage. A guy in another thread claimed this helped MPGs so much that people were coming out ahead despite the cost of premium

 

If its city only driving then there is not a whole lot that can be done. Your burning up all your fuel accelerating. If it was highway, then you could do some aero dynamic changes, but they would be minimal (2-3 mpg)

For city, just accelerate slowly, and start coasting early.

 

I am mostly city driving and I average 23mpg. I'm big on the tranny in general but 23mpg works.

 

I get 22mpg combined consistently from driving an hour to work half city half freeway every day, I don't drive necessarily slow either.

 

Learn how to hyper mile....I learned it driving my wife's Prius. Amazing what a little coasting will do! Now I just ignore the tailgater and it works.

 

City miles. You'll spend $3k on lighter tires, lighter wheels, aero mods, etc. Which will net you maybe 1mpg. You'll break even in 40 years.

You might as well get an e-scooter, bike, or another commuter.

 

21 mpg mixed and have BFG KO2s c-load. Also RWD. With stock I got 24 MPGs mixed... that was nice.... I don’t race people with my truck. Get the TSB updates and you will be fine.

Go all stock if you want great MPGs, drive like a granny, and remember it’s a truck....

 

Slow down and ease back on acceleration. Your not going to get much better driving in the city with a truck.

There are much easier ways to save money in your everyday life that can be used to offset rising gas prices.

 

Inertia management is definitely the key. Traffic can complicate that considerably though. My mileage to work varies between 23 and 19.

I use the real time mileage bar to determine the right pedal input. A mm of pedal travel can be the difference between 20 and 12.

The most is gained by coasting though. During a decel in drive the ECM cuts fuel which makes mileage infinite. Try to figure out how to coast as much as possible between traffic lights and you will start seeing a big difference.

Most drivers I watch just go back and forth between the gas and brake with no coasting at all. Think ahead and let momentum bleed off if you know a stop is ahead.

 

What’s the fuel tracker website say this truck gets? Fully?

 

Cheapest way to improve your mileage is to run your tires at the max PSI. Aside from that, take a look at your driving style. Less braking = better mileage. Be sure to use the same foot to operate both the gas and the brake.

 

Burning up $600 tires by having them overinflated is a funny way to squeeze an extra mile out of 30 cents.

 

Stay under 2000rpm. I have a tank of 93 in now. I drove about 80mph when I could during my 90min commute and was stuck in slow moving traffic for 30mi of it. Got to work with an average of 20.3 on the lie-o-meter. Even I thought it would have been higher then that using 93. With a tank of 87 on a normal commute I’m just shy of 23mpg normally. So the extra cost is not worth it in my opinion. The other thing is it’s a truck which has NEVER gotten great gas mileage and I knew that going into it. However I do save money on the HEMI I traded in.

 

I get 24-25mpg on tanks with no highway driving. Slow acceleration and tires kept 38-39psi.

 

5# tire pressure over door recommendations will actually extend life of tires and better mileage due to temp changes and periodic air refills @ 5# under. Unless you have Michelins which really hold pressure longer, don't know why, but my experience proves it. Remember, the Tacoma weighs almost 5k #'s loaded ! Its a TRUCK.

 

Same here but my stock tires are at about 32PSI cold.

 

I run 89 octane non-ethanol gas and always get 20 mpg+. On highway trips get 22 mpg+.

 

I'm averaging over 24mpg combined city and highway driving to and from work. I just don't understand the 1st and 2nd generation owners that say an increase of "a few miles per gallon" is just not a big deal. I'm in the electrical trade and when back in the 80's Panasonic had a 15 watt screw-in A19 compact fluorescent light bulb. They went balls to the wall to develop a 14 watt that put out the same lumens as the 15 watt. Doesn't sound like much to save 1 watt but after a year, they had success. That research and development cost them neatly 3 million dollars. Point being, any savings in any industry is a big deal because God only knows how much it cost Toyota in R & D to "save a few mpg". It is a big deal to the developers and most consumers.