How many MPB (miles per bar)?

[otterhere]

Seems to me that I get lots of miles with my first bar, a little fewer with the next, and so on until those last few bars before the last one starts blinking for a fill-up go sluuuuuurp, GONE! You, too?

Also, since inflating my tires to the CORRECT pressure, I'm so far doing much better on my first bar; over 60 miles this tank, and still it hasn't disappeared.

[33OH]

If you're like me and keep fueling even AFTER the gas pumper clicks that its full, yeah you'll get more miles on that first bar.

[smacky]

I only fill up until the click and the same thing happens to me. I generally get around 80 on the first bar and it decreases a bit for each bar until it is a bit lower than 50 for the last couple bars. But it's never very consistant. The bars aren't a very precise indicator of fuel used or miles per gallon.

[33OH]

Originally Posted by smacky

I only fill up until the click and the same thing happens to me. I generally get around 80 on the first bar and it decreases a bit for each bar until it is a bit lower than 50 for the last couple bars. But it's never very consistant. The bars aren't a very precise indicator of fuel used or miles per gallon.

Yeah very true. I didn't mean it like it won't happen unless you go past the click, I just mean I always do and then you REALLY notice it.

[otterhere]

80 miles on the first bar? Highway or city? Dang; I thought I was doing well with 60... Now I'm depressed again...

[PreciousPups4U]

Same here close to 75 - 80 on the first bar. Then somewhere between 40 - 50 on the rest of the bars. Three bars is about half the tank and then the other five bars are the last half of the tank or at least that's how it seems to work for me.

Mine is pretty much all city driving.

[PreciousPups4U]

Originally Posted by otterhere

80 miles on the first bar? Highway or city? Dang; I thought I was doing well with 60... Now I'm depressed again...

Yours is still pretty new. Give it some time. Depends on lots of things, too. Like terrain and how close traffic lights are together and such.

[Havana]

I hate those bars. I've gotten over 90 miles on the first bar and as little as 15 on the second to last bar. To me, it's almost useless as a fuel gauge. How can it show around 300 miles travelled at "half a tank" and only get around 85 more miles from the other "half." Answer: 50% of the bars gone does not indicate half a tank used or left. All that gauge tells is that I have some gas more or less.

[Split]

its so inaccurate.. the first bar is like half the tank.

[nemelek]

I get 75-80 on the first bar. Most cars that I have owned are inaccurate. I use well over 1/2 a tank by the time the gauge hits the mid point.

[smacky]

Originally Posted by otterhere

80 miles on the first bar? Highway or city? Dang; I thought I was doing well with 60... Now I'm depressed again...

I'm usually driving about 75% highway, that helps a lot. But my first bar is sometomes around 65 miles but my scangauge doesn't reflect FE that's too much lower. The bars are not accurate. Get a scangauge if you can, I think it's money well spent.

[1stToyota]

It's about as accurate as it can be, seeing that it's pretty hard to find a car with a perfectly square tank...maybe a '69 Chevelle with a fuel cell mounted in the trunk.

I can usually go 100 miles before I hit 7/8ths, about 300 miles before I hit 3/8ths.

[otterhere]

Seems you should be able to do the math: first bar's mileage times 7 (bars) divided by 10 (gallon tank), but that doesn't work, or I'm just bad at math.

[1stToyota]

Or Toyota isn't going to get excited enough about the Yaris fuel tank and dash cluster to factor in float drop vs tank shape? When it's full I know I got a long ways to go, when I'm down to 1/4 I start huntin for gas pumps.

[Forrest]

Originally Posted by ryank

If you're like me and keep fueling even AFTER the gas pumper clicks that its full, yeah you'll get more miles on that first bar.

There is a warning on the gas cap not to try and fill once a pump has clicked off. Something about check engine light may come on.
Also, bars are a rough indication of gas usage, but not totally accurate.

[1stToyota]

Originally Posted by Forrest

There is a warning on the gas cap not to try and fill once a pump has clicked off. Something about check engine light may come on.
Also, bars are a rough indication of gas usage, but not totally accurate.

My cap says tighten 1-click or check engine light may come on; EVAP leak.

[Krusher]

The reason for not overfilling the tank after the auto-shutoff is due to getting liquid into your EVAP canister(s)... Those are expensive and only suppose to see vapor... but it's like a 10% chance you'll end up screwing the canister up one fill-up... not a big risk and you won't see it happen very often.

I don't fill beyond the auto-shutoff....

[firebird1999us]

About 80 on the first bar, 70 second, and about 60 for the next few. I'm at the bar that tops out right at half a tank and I've went about 250+ miles so far...about 90% highway