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Replying to: hondaowner10 (Feb 08, 2009 9:43 pm) In any event enjoy your new car.
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Have been doing a long commute for about 6 months now. 42 miles each way. Mostly "highway", but it includes a toll bridge, a little local, and various amount of stop/go each way. Drive takes anywhere from 55 minutes to a high of 2.5 hours (usually about 1:15 or so home, and 55 minutes in). Assorted local running around on top of the commute (~2,500 miles/month total) In NJ, so winter blend fuel. Even with the cold stretch, I have been getting a consistant 32ish. Last tank was 34, and the current one looks to be running close to that. |
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From Jan 4th thru Feb 9: 1,130 miles using 60.61 gal of crappy winter blend New England petrol. Over a month  18.64 MPG. While this looks bad it is what you can expect from either the 4 cyl or 6 cyl when temperature in that time frame avg 19 deg with many early morning starts zero to 6 below and average distance driven was 7 miles per trip. I haven't put on any hwy miles in months. Will report back next week after a 3-400 mile trip which I'm guessing will avg 27-29 even with winter blend fuel. Heavy car, cold weather and short trips will never yield bragging writes to good fuel economy. 08 EX-L V6 16,600 miles on ODO. |
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My 2006 EX-L 4 cylinder has rarely achieved 30 MPG. Worst has been about 25 MPG and average so far is 28 MPG. We live on Whidbey Island in Washington State where the max speed limit is 55 MPH on our two lane roads. Recently we did a round trip run to Vancouver BC (about 75 miles each way on Hwy 5) and got 33 MPG on that tank. Looks like the car is very susceptible to highway vs rural or city driving. We're building a "low mileage, easily used car" since we just passed 18K miles. BTW, my 2001 Dodge Dakota just passed 43K.
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Replying to: wildman63 (Feb 10, 2009 3:24 pm) You must make a lot of short trips though because I'd think that with the mild weather and lack of heavy traffic you'd do fairly well. 18k probably confirms that.  My 06 EX-L has 62k.  But I don't live on an island.
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Replying to: packer3 (Feb 09, 2009 5:05 pm) |
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Replying to: tankbeans (Feb 09, 2009 7:20 pm) Thanks. |
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I just put the 2nd tank of gas in my Accord and I achieved 27mpg this past week. Granted the weather was a little warmer so there was less warming up and we didn't get any bad weather either. I'm confident that the mileage will increase in the spring and summer to over 30mpg.
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Replying to: hondaowner10 (Feb 12, 2009 5:53 pm) Kip
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Replying to: kipk (Feb 13, 2009 5:20 am) Double whammy when it comes to warming up and short trips. I just start it and go. The only time I warm the car up is to get the cabin warm and that's only when my nephew will be riding with, he's only 5 so he can't warm himself up that well. A lot of this I learned from my dad, who is a penny-pincher in the extreme, he won't even fix his car if he can avoid. I'm not that bad, but I just see wasted gas if I let it warm-up. With my short trips I'm already not getting optimum mileage out of my 03 Accord I4. Anyway sorry for the bloated post. I agree it is counterproductive to let the car warm up if it doesn't have a carb, most don't anyway. |
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