EasyRhino
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- City, State
- Kailua, Hawai'i
- Year, Model & Trim Level
- '02 Limited 4.6L 4x4
Just one question for the folks getting the 20+ mpg: How are you calculating gas mileage?
Not trying to be a wet blanket, but I know lots of folks doing overly optimistic (what we call RadCon math in my business) instead of keeping detailed records to really know their mileage (Aldive is an exception).
Heck, my father still does this - he'll say "I drove to xx, and filled up at xx, and that is about xx miles, and the tank holds xx, so I got xx mpg. Sorry, but not accurate. When he gets his gas bill at the end of the month, he is confused that he spent 400-500 bux on gas when he "only went xx miles". He has absolutely no idea what his true mileage is. Heck, I can get the Ex mpg computer to say 99.9 mpg each way to and from work down a very steep incline. I can also get it to say 3.0 mpg going up that same hill.
Call me a data geek (okay, you're a geek), but I have 93,000 miles of data on my Ex (and 47K on the Mustang, etc) that shows the actual mileage by tankful (can vary by as much as 10 mpg under different conditions and different fill up conditions, current quarter, last four quarters/year, and cumulative lifetime mpg. I do this to help me know when my cars may be in need of attention - e.g. if mileage drops suddenly.
That said, I think I will clean the MAF and run another diagnostic.
I wish I got 15 mpg here.
Not trying to be a wet blanket, but I know lots of folks doing overly optimistic (what we call RadCon math in my business) instead of keeping detailed records to really know their mileage (Aldive is an exception).
Heck, my father still does this - he'll say "I drove to xx, and filled up at xx, and that is about xx miles, and the tank holds xx, so I got xx mpg. Sorry, but not accurate. When he gets his gas bill at the end of the month, he is confused that he spent 400-500 bux on gas when he "only went xx miles". He has absolutely no idea what his true mileage is. Heck, I can get the Ex mpg computer to say 99.9 mpg each way to and from work down a very steep incline. I can also get it to say 3.0 mpg going up that same hill.
Call me a data geek (okay, you're a geek), but I have 93,000 miles of data on my Ex (and 47K on the Mustang, etc) that shows the actual mileage by tankful (can vary by as much as 10 mpg under different conditions and different fill up conditions, current quarter, last four quarters/year, and cumulative lifetime mpg. I do this to help me know when my cars may be in need of attention - e.g. if mileage drops suddenly.
That said, I think I will clean the MAF and run another diagnostic.
I wish I got 15 mpg here.