Using DFCO to increase your MPG - Toyota Yaris Forums

Lillydot · 03-23-2007, 09:00 PM

"The difference is that you most likely drive around in "D" - overdrive - the entire time. When your AT is in that setting it will always drop into OD at about 2,000 RPM when you are "coasting" with your foot off the throttle. That's a fair amount of fuel it's using. In order to engage DFCO you'd need to be in gear 3 or lower".

so, i should shift to the third gear and then coast? is this safe to do in the middle of driving?

BailOut · 03-23-2007, 10:10 PM

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Originally Posted by Lillydot

so, i should shift to the third gear and then coast? is this safe to do in the middle of driving?

That's correct, and it's perfectly safe as long as you're not going so fast that your engine will red-line when you go into 3rd. I'd say anything up to 55 MPH should be fine.

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03-23-2007, 09:00 PM	#1
Lillydot Absolutely Red!!! Drives: 07 A/T Yaris Liftback Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Boston, MA Posts: 63	"The difference is that you most likely drive around in "D" - overdrive - the entire time. When your AT is in that setting it will always drop into OD at about 2,000 RPM when you are "coasting" with your foot off the throttle. That's a fair amount of fuel it's using. In order to engage DFCO you'd need to be in gear 3 or lower". so, i should shift to the third gear and then coast? is this safe to do in the middle of driving?