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Replying to: davidlucas (Dec 15, 2005 5:06 pm) |
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12/19/2005: - 318 Miles - 14.77 Gallons - 21.53 mpg Approximately 60/40 city/highway miles. Total miles on car; 2554. Curious that gas mileage actually went down from the last report, even with a significant increase in highway miles. The weather has been colder lately, translating into longer warmup times for car which leads to decreased mileage ... this could partially explain the discrepancy. Camry still breaking in ... I hope to average 25 mpg city and 34+ mpg highway once I reach 7500 miles on the odometer (+/- 2500 miles).
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932 miles (odometer 5800 to 6700), late October to today, 90% city driving, 18.4 mpg. Weather has been very cold (today's high was 10 F.) all this month. That's down 1-1.5 mpg from summer.
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Replying to: lmacmil (Dec 19, 2005 3:47 pm) Last winter the mileage declined as well. Also, I wanted to follow up on dealer response to my inquiries about the MPG this past september. I succeeded in making a second appointment with the original dealer whom I bought the car from to have the mileage checked (the first time, after about 2 months and ~6 tankfuls, they didn't even turn on the ignition during the analysis, the car was returned to me with a report that says "no error codes stored"). For the second check, I called Toyota regional customer service center, who had a representative and a service advisor from the dealer call me; the service advisor offered to schedule a time for a Toyota factory technician to be present during the inspection. This was to be about 3 or 4 weeks in the future. Two days before the car was to be brought in, the service advisor called me to cancel the appointment because of my "strong words" and I should take my business elsewhere (I hadn't spoken to him at all since the appointment was set). I informed him we had not spoken, that he was simply not honoring what was agreed. After reporting the matter to Toyota's regional customer service center, they set me up with another dealer, but did not arrange a Toyota representative to be present. I gave them copies of every gas reciept since the car was purchased, and a log of the mileage kept (see my earlier post for mpg ~17-18 pure city, 26-28 pure highway). Judging from the odometer, the second dealer did actually drive the car ~50 miles. They reported to me they couldn't find anything wrong, and showed me what was largely computer printouts. They did not allow me to review the technician's notes, even though the cover page said "fuel consumption test not completed". I took their loaner, a 2005 camry, for a 2 hour test drive on 80+% freeway, and it seemed to use as much or more gas than my 2004, (23.8 mpg). For my next new car, I will take a rental of same for a 400 mile gas consumption test before slapping down another 20K on another guzzling camry based on sales claims. |
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How fast are you driving on the highway?
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Replying to: dudleyr (Dec 22, 2005 8:08 pm) |
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I'm about 3/4ths of the way through an L.A. to Virginia cross-country trip -- 3 people, car fairly heavily loaded. Gas mileage has gradually improved from about 29 to 35 mpg, due I suppose to 4 factors as we moved east -- warmer temps, lower altitudes, flatter terrain, and lower speeds. Most interesting. This is a 2004 Camry 4-cyl. with the 4-speed auto. Start miles was just over 29,000. I'll follow up with more details when I get home. |
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Replying to: dudleyr (Dec 22, 2005 8:08 pm) terrain: flat |
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Replying to: guill (Dec 19, 2005 1:27 pm) IMO, no chance of that, so don't keep your hopes up, guill. I did an extensive search of all of the posts of MPG on this website and found that those who boasted 30+ mpg invariably did so based on a single tankful (which I attribute to an incomplete fillup) instead of a series (continuous fillups and odometer records) or a "computer" readout, with some providing so little data that I wondered if it wasn't just a "guess". Of those that reported a series, only one party reported as much as 28 mpg (all others lower), that was in the 2004 4-speed; he got reduced mileage in a newer 2005 5-speed automatic he bought subsequently. As I recall, he lives in a rural area with little, if any true, city driving. He reported ~30+ mpg once in a series of two tankfuls at 100% freeway. Expectations of routine 34 mpg fuel economy on this car are not only unreasonable, they just don't (and likely won't) happen. Even I have got one 30+ mpg tankful. But on a routine basis, NO. My guess is you will do NO MORE than 17 and 26 in the long term, which your 21.5 on a 60/40 would put you right in the middle.
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