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2439 messages, Last post on Dec 06, 2009 at 5:06 AM
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I'd also like to know the name of the attorney who was taking cases on the Fit. My 2008 sport Fit has been through all the break in stuff they talked about I have done the batter disc reset 2 times I have 18000 30miles per week day 26 of the miles highway so 87% of my driving is highway I am up from the high teens I was getting when the car was new now I am getting 27-28 on the highway the dealer has checked my car 2 times said the car is fine HUMMMMM I dont think so I hear all bout these people getting mid 40s Well Honda must have figured the MPG with 100 cars in the 40s & 100 cars in the high teens to low 20s crazy I first dorve this car the FIT in Brazil before they where here in 2004 loved the car & my friend in brazil Her car gets like 40mpg and she drive 50%-50% maybe 60% city
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Replying to: jayboyd (Oct 09, 2009 6:55 am) These readouts are just TOYS.. Get yerselfes a Scangauge, and you have a much more practical setup with calibration ability... Suing over a gadget... Got nothing better to do? Classaction, - you obviously don't know how worthless that is for the individual participants!!! |
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Replying to: thurst1963 (Oct 09, 2009 7:39 am) On the other end of the scale, I just returned from a vacation trip. My, stuffed to the gills, '99 V6 Ody wit an additional lbs300+ carrier basket got 24.5 mpg going at fwy speeds and making a total 4,000 feet climb. 300 miles from Los Angeles to Bishop. The CR-V ('05) got 28.5 mpg on the same run...
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Replying to: cwalti (Oct 09, 2009 7:50 am) Every car I've owned which had an onboard trip computer with fuel economy readout never varied more that +/- .5 MPG from the old fashioned way of calculation mileage. So, something must really be wrong with the algorithm used in the computer, or the sensors. I know that I would be upset with 25 to 27 MPG with a Fit, as our minivan with a 3.8L V6 gets over 28 MPG on the highway consistently. Moreover, I have a friend in the UK with a Honda Jazz (the European Fit equivalent), and he gets over 40 MPG.
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I've been driving it more than a year, since august of 2008. Its beyond 7,000 miles, has been broken in, has had oil changes, etc. I'm not driving it like a loon, and even if I was, theres no way in hell driving it like a crazy person would cut the mileage by 60%. I've kept it under 3,000 rpms. I've stayed below 70, I've accelerated slowly and glided into stops. Did that for entire tanks of gas... didn't make a lick of difference. |
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Replying to: colloquor (Oct 09, 2009 10:19 am)
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Replying to: stephen987 (Oct 09, 2009 12:45 pm) |
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Replying to: thatsmycall (May 03, 2006 11:57 am) I Have The 2009 Sport With 6,000 Miles..No Trips As Yet..Can Only Get Better!! |
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Replying to: baddog2 (Oct 23, 2008 7:31 pm) Are you saying that you are driving with cruise control on, before you completed the break-in of the car ?  The wear patterns on your "virgin" engine are still being established and I personally would take some additional care and NEVER drive it with cruise control for the first 1000 miles. I have been struggling to complete my break-in miles by continuously varying the RPMs while not allowing it to cross 4000 rpm. I have another 400 miles to go, before I can start driving at a constant RPM for better mileage. Even with the fuel-sapping break-in driving, the mileage is a little over 35mpg, which means that with more constant rpm driving, the mileage should be significantly better. |
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Replying to: stephen987 (Aug 08, 2009 4:13 pm) Interesting. This is because I calculated the mileage versus what was being displayed on the computer and found that my calculated value was roughly 1mpg below the average displayed by the computer. The calculated value was a little over 35mpg, while the computer indicated a little over 36mpg. Mine is an 09 Fit Sport Manual Trans. PS: I typically ignore the dealer fill and as soon as I get home, I go to my favorite Shell or BP gas station and fill it till the first click (at a specific pump to make it more exact), set the trip-meter and calculate the mileage from there. To calculate the mileage, I divide the miles driven - since the last tripmeter reset - by the gallons filled till the first click (at that specific pump, in that specific gas station) PS1: For whatever reason, I am seeing better mileage from my 09 MT Fit Sport than my previous 08 MT Fit Base, even though according to the EPA numbers, the figures should be reversed. I will allow some more miles to accumulate before I can be definitive here. But as it stands, even with the fuel-sapping break-in driving with constantly varying RPMs, I am getting over 35mpg (most of it is stop-and-go city driving), which is just fantastic. 
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