Wife driving car= bad mpg

[SuperFunBall]

I went out of town for the week for work and left the car for my wife. I filled it up and drove about 90 miles on that tank like I usually do. My driving typically nets about 43 mpg for the tank fill (usually in the 9-10 gallon fill up) and about 400 plus miles at the one bar blinking. Well, when I got my car the milage read 348 and the gas indicator was blinking. Go to fill it up and it took 10.5 gallons. 33.1 mpg....WTF? I guess she was having flash backs to her vtec prelude days?

[whooppee777]

LMAO at the title

[Loren]

My wife drove the same way until she got her MINI Cooper with the on-board computer. I had her start watching her average MPG, and her city mileage went from 23 mpg to 28 mpg. (it won't get much better because her commute is only about 3 miles)

A lot of it comes down to just awareness. Most people don't even realize that they're doing things like holding their foot on the accelerator right up until the last second before they start braking for the light that they knew was red 10 seconds ago, or needlessly "sprinting" to catch up to traffic that's not going anywhere anyway.

[cali yaris]

^ and some people do that on purpose. LOL

[BailOut]

If it's any consolation the same thing happens with my wife. The lowest mileage tank I've had in the last 2 years was when she drove my Yaris for a week while I was out of town.

[rningonfumes]

That's it !...proof enough from several people...I am not getting married purely because this future wife of mine will give me bade mileage!

I've made my decision, don't try to change it with the I can change her tune!

[2009Toyotoad]

Some people simply should not drive an M/T equipped vehicle

[Forrest]

OH leave the wife alone. Everyone has driving habits, some better than others. Does she have accidents? Is she a defensive driver? Is she a safe driver?
So she uses a little more gas...the Yaris mileage even on a bad low mileage day makes up for your wife not winning the mileage award.
Relax and give her a break.

[nemelek]

The same theory applies with showers. My wife's showers end when the hot water runs out.

[yaris-me]

LMAO We need a bitch about the wife sticky.

[TLyttle]

NOOOO, we don't, not really. If the gals retaliate and start a "bitch about the hubby" sticky, we will LOSE, bigtime...

[SuperFunBall]

Originally Posted by Forrest

OH leave the wife alone. Everyone has driving habits, some better than others. Does she have accidents? Is she a defensive driver? Is she a safe driver?
So she uses a little more gas...the Yaris mileage even on a bad low mileage day makes up for your wife not winning the mileage award.
Relax and give her a break.

Actually she is not a defensive driver and has had many tickets in the past due to her speeding. I was not upset at her or furious, just in disbeleif at the mpg she logged in. Hince the joke about her old vtec prelude days, she still goes on about that car. I have dogged the yaris and drove it like I stole it before and never netted below 35mpg on average.

[360cubes]

The 2.0L prelude engine is definitely a revver to even drive it sedately. My head didn't like meeting the roof over rough roads!

I get 8mpg when I take the wife out in my Durango. I find it's easier for her to learn with the larger mirrors and square (box) style. The brakes are also very responsive. Just driving around town takes its toll. That, and she's a bit too cautious when driving in moderate to heavy traffic - light turns red two blocks away and she takes her foot off the gas - YES!

[SuperFunBall]

[QUOTE=360cubes;315609]The 2.0L prelude engine is definitely a revver to even drive it sedately. My head didn't like meeting the roof over rough roads!

Yeah she has told me stories of jumping RR crossings down here in florida going 90 on back roads. Her speed addiction has slowed down mostly to her driving a company SUV except when she is in my Yaris. She is the only one I know that test drove a new integra back in 99 like she was on a road course and brought it back to the dealership smoking

[dccurrent]

My last fill up gave me 29 mpg. WTF?

[Blowtorch]

My fiance thinks it's weird I started keeping track of my mileage after I fill up. She asks me every single time, "why do you do this?"

It's a new car, I'm not doing it forever.

[Kal-El]

Not to pick on women, but I've noticed that their style of driving is generally inefficient.

Not necessarily from speeding, because men do it to. In fact, many men are guilty of what I'm about to point out but it just seems more common among women.

- Over use of brakes!!! One of the worse things you can do for mileage (and overall wear and tear).

- Lack of grace (ironic). Women tend to drive very "jerky". Bad mpg resulting.

- And a lack of sense on how engines operate efficiently (no offense).

And just overall bad habits as mentioned earlier like giving gas even when you're approaching a red light or traffic jam.

[Yaris Hilton]

Originally Posted by Kal-El

- Over use of brakes!!! One of the worse things you can do for mileage (and overall wear and tear).

My dad, who was a hypermiler long before the term was coined, often told me that the brake pedal should be labeled "PRESS HERE TO DRAIN GAS TANK." Anytime you use the brakes, you're converting kinetic energy that you gained at the cost of burning precious fuel into waste heat that can't be recovered.

I now drive at posted speed limits, which really upsets many people, and they often punch the gas to pass me just before standing on the brakes to stop as I pull over into a turn lane approaching a stop sign or red light. I often wonder how much each such juvenile gesture costs them. Gas, brake and tire wear.