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Kia Sedona Gas Mileage

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#37 of 161 44K averaging 18mpg by ramblin

Sep 26, 2006 (3:24 am)

2004 Sedona EX
High of 22mpg on longer trips and 18mpg average with mix of highway and lower speed diving on secondary highways. 5% stop and go driving.
 
Average highway speed 65mph, secondary roads 40mph.
 
A low MPG of 14.5 which is only happened a couple of times. Lots and lots of AC use this summer.
 
That diesel and 32mpg sure sounds nice. I wonder if Kia will break out of the mold and offer a diesel in the USA?

#38 of 161 Mileage is a mixed bag, but overall its bad. by stevenfjl

Oct 24, 2006 (5:59 pm)

I have 950 miles on my 2006 KIA Sedona EX and am averaging 11.5 MPG overall. I drive about 80% city and that's killing the mileage. On the highway I can see as much as 28 MPG and if that were the whole story I'd be thrilled with that. Unfortunately, in city driving I'm only getting between 6.6 and 9 MPG. I've never experienced anything like this. The dealership and KIA claim that I have to break-in the vehicle. Now, I understand the need for break-in but from what I have seen I can only expect to get about 10-15% increase in mileage during a 5000 mile break-in period. That only adds about 1 MPG to city driving. In the meantime gas is costing me a small fortune. I calculated that if all things stay the same that it will cost an additional $13,000 over a 10 year vehicle life, to fuel this puppy. That's above and beyond the EPA ratings for the cost of fuel. After a lot of trying to get the dealership and KIA to listen to my plight I got a KIA factory representative to go for a fuel consumption drive with me and the results bear out my stated mileage. However, after the rep gave the results to some engineers there is no agreement on the possible causes and the only recommendation is to continue to break-in the vehicle and test it again after it has 1500+ miles on it. I'm glad to have gotten the recommendation to see if mileage improves, but certainly it doesn't take a genius to see that the mileage isn't going to improve any significant amount for city driving and that it would have to improve by about 10 MPG just to be in the ballpark of what should be the expected city mileage. In the meantime I'm shoveling out a lot of extra dough for gas that shouldn't be necessary. My driving habits are not the culprit since I don't jackrabbit start, tailgate, ride the brake or have any other fuel eating bad habits. The tires have been inflated to the rated 44 psi and there is no heavy load placed on the vehicle.
 
Does anyone have any possible explanation for such a wide mileage gap between highway and city and such horrible mileage in the city in general. Any help is greatly appreciated.
 
Thanks in advance.

#39 of 161 Re: Mileage is a mixed bag, but overall its bad. [stevenfjl] by notanotherkia

Oct 24, 2006 (11:01 pm)

Replying to: stevenfjl (Oct 24, 2006 5:59 pm)
only one solution. Hope it gets stolen. I have had the exact problem but my dealership said it was my driving habit. I put a cone filter on it and that seemed to improve it to around 15 in the city. The biggest problem these vans have is they weigh in at around 3800 pounds. You have to literally baby it off of the stop light until you are about 35mph.

#40 of 161 Still happy with the Diesel by dpugh

Oct 25, 2006 (12:05 am)

Hi Folks, well the engine has settled down, currently getting approx 34.3 mpg, an even mix of urban/highway driving. Kia says that using Bio-Diesel will invalidate my warranty so I have to stick with the petroleum based diesel. Not happy about that, but will look into it further. Kia could not give me a reason why, which would have been nice. Take care

#41 of 161 Re: Still happy with the Diesel [dpugh] by jim314

Oct 25, 2006 (6:43 am)

Replying to: dpugh (Oct 25, 2006 12:05 am)
Does Kia not approve of even low levels of biodiesel in petrodiesel, like B5? One of the big uses of biodiesel may turn out to be an additive at a few percent to improve lubricity of ULSD, ultra low sulfur diesel. A secondary benefit of biodiesel might be as an "oxygenate" to decrease emissions similiar to the use of ethanol in gasoline.
 
The energetics of production of biodiesel and the fact that its production from purpose grown crops competes with the use of arable land for food, for animal feed, and for natural wild vegetation, means that biodiesel can not supply a major part of the world's diesel fuel needs.

#42 of 161 Re: Still happy with the Diesel [jim314] by dpugh

Oct 25, 2006 (8:21 am)

Replying to: jim314 (Oct 25, 2006 6:43 am)
I came accross the clause in the vehicle handbook that states: 'any use of biodiesel, irrelevant of quantity/mixture will invalidate the kia warranty in full with no exception'. leaves little doubt for interpretation, and, the service desk at kia told me the same thing. Even from an enviornmental stand point it would be doing my little bit for the environment, even mixing it as B5 like you suggest. Lets see what reply I get from Kia HeadOffice, if any??

#43 of 161 Re: Varying gas mileage [notanotherkia] by mluhring

Oct 28, 2006 (6:32 am)

Replying to: notanotherkia (Sep 06, 2006 1:46 pm)
New 06 owner here. I have only driven around 750 miles so far and my driving has only been city driving with short spurts of highway driving. My mileage has been 17.5 so far looking forward to it getting a shade better. My old pontiac montana would get 20 in the city and 26 on the highway. The new sedona is much nicer though.
 
I was looking to put a K&N air filter in, but so far they don't make one for the 06. I bought an 05 filter in hopes that it would fit, but no luck with that. It seems there are not very many aftermaket parts available for the 06 sedona yet. I am sure that will change soon.

#44 of 161 mpg computer readout by rgochoa

Oct 28, 2006 (9:05 am)

Replying to: dpugh (Oct 25, 2006 8:21 am)
The computer on my 06 Sedona read 21.4 mpg. I actually do get this. However, the range to empty never goes higher than 330-340 miles to empty. The vehicle is supposed to have a 20.5 gal capacity; the readout to empty should indicate in excess of 400 miles to empty--according to my highschool math it should read 440 miles to empty. No help from dealership.

#45 of 161 Re: mpg computer readout [rgochoa] by akolive

Oct 28, 2006 (1:48 pm)

Replying to: rgochoa (Oct 28, 2006 10:05 am)
Simply fill the tank up to full, reset your trip meter, run to near empty and then fill back up the same way. Take the total miles from your trip meter and divide by the amount of gas it takes to fill. That will give you your exact mpg.
Hope that helps.
Our 06 gets 17.5 - 18 mpg in mixed driving conditions.
Peter

#46 of 161 Re: mpg computer readout [akolive] by rgochoa

Oct 29, 2006 (8:25 am)

Replying to: akolive (Oct 28, 2006 2:48 pm)
Thanks for input. I will try reseting process to see if this corrects the range. I get 21.5 miles per gal on my Sedona, so I am not concerned with the indicated mpg factor on the computer, only on the indicated range to empty.

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