415 miles today!

[albee213]

I want to spend as little time as possible at the fuel station, I would like a larger tank, the benifit of carrying less weight by not filling all the way up to me is outweighed by the time to drive to a station and the amount of fuel used everytime you are there pulling up to the pump and so on. My car is almost always empty but at times I carry 2 to 3 cases of water around (to lazy to take it out) and never notice any difference in MPG.

My goal is to fill up once per week vs my 2 to 3 times per week with my other car that only got 16 mpg.

[nookandcrannycar]

Originally Posted by albee213

my other car that only got 16 mpg.

Make? Model? Year?

[ezhacker1]

Well a gallon of gas weighs somewhere like 6-7 pounds. That's not that significant.

[Jcp123]

Originally Posted by albee213

I want to spend as little time as possible at the fuel station, I would like a larger tank, the benifit of carrying less weight by not filling all the way up to me is outweighed by the time to drive to a station and the amount of fuel used everytime you are there pulling up to the pump and so on. My car is almost always empty but at times I carry 2 to 3 cases of water around (to lazy to take it out) and never notice any difference in MPG.

My goal is to fill up once per week vs my 2 to 3 times per week with my other car that only got 16 mpg.

I agree! I think any car with less than 14g capacity is almost criminal...if I had another 2 gallons or so, I'd have enough range to fill up every other payday (monthly ).

... Though I'll admit 500+ miles is pretty good range, on a roadtrip it'll outlast my body in those awful seats Toyota put in.

45,7mpg this tank, played with fire a little bit and got 519miles out of the tank before filling. Sweet!

[albee213]

I have taken apart several cars and repaired many fuel pumps and seen inside of the fuel tanks and in my time I have never seen anything in the tanks other than fuel. I wonder if older cars used to get crap in them, but anything since the 90's the tanks have always been clean.

[albee213]

1998 Cadillac Deville D'elegance... I love that car, but its having some issues and I am in the process of replacing the Northstar (Deathstar) V8.

I have had my Yaris only a few months and I like it, but I drove my Cadillac one day just around the block and wow it has so much more power and its 50 times quitter at all speeds. I normally average 16 to 17 mpg driving in city but it gets 26mpg on the freeway.

I also have a 98 Dodge RAM 2500 v10 4x4... 9 mpg in the city and maybe 13mpg on the freeway.

[nookandcrannycar]

Originally Posted by albee213

1998 Cadillac Deville D'elegance... I love that car, but its having some issues and I am in the process of replacing the Northstar (Deathstar) V8.

I have had my Yaris only a few months and I like it, but I drove my Cadillac one day just around the block and wow it has so much more power and its 50 times quitter at all speeds. I normally average 16 to 17 mpg driving in city but it gets 26mpg on the freeway.

I also have a 98 Dodge RAM 2500 v10 4x4... 9 mpg in the city and maybe 13mpg on the freeway.

Wow, what an interesting trio of vehicles.

[aspro]

Originally Posted by Kaotic Lazagna

Since I wasn't sure if you meant filling up more often, or filling up more per fill up, and since I answered in terms of the former, I will answer for the latter now.

Filling up more per tank will not get you better mpg as it'll be adding more mass/weight to your car. I fill up to full because I don't want to have to keep filling up often, so I take that mpg hit. I don't let my tank go lower than 1/4 tank (which isn't really 1/4 tank because the gas tank isn't a perfect square) because in my experience, it did something that caused my mpg to decrease a lot. I'm assuming it's sucking up sediments/debris that settled at the bottom of the tank or something.

I always drive her until bone dry. Have been doing it in all my cars for the last 10+ years in all kinds of cars from jeeps to super duties (gas) to STI and with my yaris. I have never once had to change a fuel pump and a good half of these cars have seen well over 250,000 km's. I think the theory of sucking up debris is bogus. That or I have been blessed with bullet proof fuel pumps from all sorts of car manufacturers

[nookandcrannycar]

Originally Posted by aspro

I always drive her until bone dry. Have been doing it in all my cars for the last 10+ years in all kinds of cars from jeeps to super duties (gas) to STI and with my yaris. I have never once had to change a fuel pump and a good half of these cars have seen well over 250,000 km's. I think the theory of sucking up debris is bogus. That or I have been blessed with bullet proof fuel pumps from all sorts of car manufacturers

^^^^^This. I don't have much knowledge re fuel pumps and gas tanks, but my habits re when I do a fill up + lack of any issues = similar to aspro.