Magic Gas

[tetzyamis]

I drive 50% city and 50% highway.
I was getting 35-37 mpg when the car was brand new.
After a few thousand miles on it, it consistently gets 37 mpg.
I used to get 32 mpg with Corolla, driving 1/2 city and 1/2 highway.
How fast do you accelerate and how much idling do you do?

[otterhere]

Originally Posted by tetzyamis

I drive 50% city and 50% highway.
I was getting 35-37 mpg when the car was brand new.
After a few thousand miles on it, it consistently gets 37 mpg.
I used to get 32 mpg with Corolla, driving 1/2 city and 1/2 highway.
How fast do you accelerate and how much idling do you do?

I'm very careful not to idle (turn it off if I'll be sitting) and always creep up to stoplights and ease into resuming speed; also never exceed limit now... All my efforts aren't helping, and I did NONE of this with my former car (40 mpg).

Bad fuel filter? What else can I try???

[tetzyamis]

Originally Posted by otterhere

I'm very careful not to idle (turn it off if I'll be sitting) and always creep up to stoplights and ease into resuming speed; also never exceed limit now... All my efforts aren't helping, and I did NONE of this with my former car (40 mpg).

Bad fuel filter? What else can I try???

I don't know...
To me, you should be getting around 37 mpg.
More so, if you used to get 40 mpg from Swift, it makes sense you get around 37 mpg from Yaris.

[otterhere]

Originally Posted by tetzyamis

I don't know...
To me, you should be getting around 37 mpg.
More so, if you used to get 40 mpg from Swift, it makes sense you get around 37 mpg from Yaris.

Okay; although my gas gauge never DID go back to blinking (even after ten more miles???), I went ahead and filled, calculating EXACTLY this time...

35.6 mpg... That's some highway, but mostly city... So it's getting better...

Probably thanks to inflating the tires from 26 to 38; thanks!