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Replying to: yoli1 (Aug 02, 2008 6:39 pm) So spaketh "The One". 
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We recently took a trip from KC to Copper Mountain, Colorado and averaged 23.4 MPG over the entire trip. Here are some details if anyone is interested: 2004 Pilot EX-L 73,000 miles Mobil1 5W-20 Tires 40 PSI 4 adults and 3 kids with most of the gear on a Hitch-Haul rack. Round trip of 1,431 miles. Average speed of 71.8 MPH. Essentially 100% highway. Had somewhat of a tailwind on both legs of the trip measured by flags on flagpoles that we passed. We have only had one trip that gave better mileage, but that was with less people and gear. As a follow up to an earlier post of mine....We just got back from a road trip from KC to Destin, FL. Here are the details: 2004 Pilot EX-L 77,000 miles Mobil1 5W-20 Tires 38 PSI 2 adults and 3 kids with all of the gear inside this time. Round trip of 2,384 miles. Cruise set at 70-75 MPH. Essentially 100% highway with about 200 miles of local driving in Destin. A/C 95% of the time. No tailwinds on this trip, only side and headwinds. Yielded 22.8 MPG over the entire trip. I am fairly pleased with that considering the conditions. |
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| I have put a little over 2K miles on my 09 Pilot and am getting around 18 MPG per tank on average with 70% city and 30% highway driving. The few times I have taken trips on the highway i am averaging 23 MPG (4 riders) and even 25-26 MPG with just me in the car. So far very pleased with the MPG rating. | |
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Replying to: joemama33 (Aug 03, 2008 12:54 pm) |
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Just took a trip from south of Atlanta to just north of Chatanooga Tennessee. About 30 of the 343 miles was local driving. 2 adults, 1 Seven year old and about 75# of luggage. Tire pressure at 33# and temperature ranging from 80 in the morning to 92 in the afternoon. Got stuck in serious "crawling" traffic coming back through Atlanta. They are doing road construction with 3 lanes closed, and the Braves had a game. Took nearly an hour to go 2 miles in that mess. We were stopped more than we were moving. Other than the "crawling", the cruise was set about 95% of the time at 65 mph and I let it do it's thing. No hyper-mileing on my part. So it downshifted early on the up hill grades. ( Plenty of those in North Georgia) AC was on about 75% of the time. Total miles driven were 343.6 and fuel used was 13.7 gallons = 25.08 mpg. I feel that the "crawling " part, likely used at least an extra gallon in that hour. As we would have gone 65 miles instead of 2 miles. So subtracting just 1 gallon, the mileage could have been closer to 27 mpg for pure highway.. Recon there is always something that can mess up a good thing.  Kip |
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Hi all, would like to thank those who have posted extensive explanations of how they've achieved their various levels of gas mileage. I haven't posted for a while so I'll try to return the favor. We're usually averaging in the low 20s for mileage here in Northern New England....hilly commutes of usually over 10 miles one way....and generally we experience 23-25 mpg on longer trips in the region. Most of the roads we travel are two-laners (our closest interstate is about 50 miles away) with 50-55 speed limits. In summer last year we achieved 25.7 on a 400 mile round trip, with speeds around 50-55, all on two-lane roads, some hilly terrain, little use of the air conditioner, some use of the cruise control. I always factor in the odometer error, which is currently running at 2.3% (for every actual 100 miles driven, the odo will show 102.3). And if I can't fill up at the same gas station, I try to make sure on these mileage runs that I at least fill up at a station at the same approximate elevation as the previous one. There will always be some inaccuracies, but the more we measure, the more MPG data we get, and the errors eventually cancel out to a large degree. But that's old news.....again, a couple of months ago, we got 25.1 MPG in similar driving conditions, similar temperatures, etc etc, on a 326 mile round trip. On this run I was struck by how long you can coast, say on a downhill portion, or when slowing down for a lower speed limit as you approach a town, without hindering traffic. But that's in low traffic density situations. We are considerate of drivers behind us! We haven't had a chance to do much urban driving, but I strongly agree with the poster who explained that there are different types of "city" driving, and that the amount of idle time stuck in traffic (the times you're getting zero MPG) has a big influence on overall MPG. Please pardon my digression here....but I'm recalling an 8,000 mile trip from Sacramento to Boston and back, with a side trip through Canada, that I took in 1972.....driving a 1965 split-window VW bus. After that trip I vowed I'd never take a VW bus on the road again.....although it was reliable and reasonably comfortable, it was like driving an empty cardboard box....the vehicle was constantly at the mercy of any wind, with crosswinds and headwinds a major problem! However, even back then I was tracking gas mileage.....my log shows that we got low 20s most of the time (sound familiar?) and on the Eastbound leg through Nebraska on I-80, with a tailwind, we got 25 MPG. Even back then a 7-passenger vehicle with lousy aerodynamics and a carbureted engine could get that much under the right conditions....and admittedly, the boxlike shape of the bus enhanced the effect of the tailwind. Finally, one poster recently suggested that drivers who claim 25 MPG or higher on their Pilots are using crack. Well, I've never used crack or any other illegal drug, and I have no plans to. I checked Edmunds' gas mileage recommendations, and then checked other websites for information on how to get good gas mileage. Nowhere could I find that using crack has any effect on gas mileage, so I'm not sure why that poster would make a comment like that. Have a great day. feet2fire
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Replying to: feet2fire (Aug 06, 2008 5:09 am) Posters like you are describing come and go. They generally don't have the intelligence to discuss a topic. They just make their stupid statements and run hide! Or maybe the monitors throw them off.  Your post was informative. Kip
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2007 EXL AWD with 24,000 miles. Averaging 17.6 mpg overall. Best case is about 20mpg for mostly highway tankfulls. Worst case is about 15mpg for mixed city/highway tankfulls. While I believe that my mpg is rather par for the course for a 4WD first generation Pilot, I have come to accept and respect posts at both ends of the spectrum - the people who are suffering around 10mpg and the people who are enjoying around 25mpg. We are all driving the same machine (except that 2007/2008 models are engineered to rev higher than earlier models). The great variances between those who get the worst mpg and those who get the best mpg can be explained by many variables. I'll mention some variables I can think of, but probably no such list would be complete. 1. city driving vs. highway driving 2. speed on highway 3. in stop and go, how fast or slow you accelerate to come up to speed 4. hilly or flat area 5. tires and tire pressure 6. # of passengers 7. cargo 8. use of A/C 9. use of cruise control 10. attention to required maintenance Although I am averaging 17.6 mpg in my Pilot using it the way I do, I believe I could be in the 10mpg range if I did nothing but drive in NYC, and I believe I could be in the 25mpg range if I did nothing but drive on the highway at a low speed. Put another way, if I got in my Pilot and followed the 10mpg posters and the 25mpg posters for an entire tankfull, each of us with about the same passenger/cargo weight, I expect that my results would be very similar to theirs. |
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THought I would throw in my mpg on our 3 month old 08: 2008 2WD SE Low of 16, high of 22...right on target. My Formula 1 inspired wife's habits tend to drop the mileage to the high teens. Our 1st road trip recently showed the 22 on two tanks, averaging 75-85 on the road |
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I think city mileage is hard to agree on. some times in NY city it takes you over an hour to go 10 miles on the BQE. You are burning gas standing still. No point in blaming the manufacturers. If you do a lot of city driving, i.e more than highway you are better of with a hybrid.
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