For those of you that don't frequent PriusChat.com, this is my latest tank result.
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When you hooked up the horse team to the tow ring in the front bumper, did you open the cover with a credit card or a screw driver ? :wink:Ray Moore said:For those of you that don't frequent PriusChat.com, this is my latest tank result.
bshef said:omg......I bet your rear-view mirror is Rated "R".......
I've got just over 3k miles and I have to try like hell to get just 50mpg.
I can only imagine the throngs of p'd off people sitting behind you on their way to work each morning! :roll:
no......I'm not joking......There was no way to tell if you were joking, so I assume that you were not.
Before I even consider disagreeing with you...do you have the gun-rack option ?Ray Moore said:I have put in 12.75 gallons on several occasions. What on earth makes you trust what the manual says. It says the tank capacity is 11.9 gallons but that doesn't mean that that is all you can put in the car. It also says that an oil change takes 3.9 quarts but that will always result in an overfill. A proper oil change that falls half way between the full and add marks takes exactly 3 quarts of oil. The manual also says we have DSP on our radio but we don't. It's just a book guys and it is often wrong. The car holds around 13 gallons if you are empty and then sqeeze in every drop you can without spilling any. If you are content with the range that you get with 9 gallon fillups, then that's OK. I intend to get 600+ miles out of my tanks and better than 50 MPG. It's really not hard at all if you have a rather long commute(30 miles one way) and live in a warm climate.
My wife drives 70 on the highway and takes off faster than I do. She doesn't spend much time worrying about mileage and consitently gets 52-55 MPG in her new Prius. She has less than 5000 miles and got 52 MPG on her first tank and higher since then. She has several 600+ mile tanks so far.
I live in Oregon too and I've had attendents pump as little as 3 1/2 gallons in my car at full speed. Now I just tell them, "It will shut off early. But it needs about 10 gallons, so please top it off." I don't have too many problems now, but I usually go to the same one or two gas stations too.ehurtley said:(I live in Oregon where there is no self-serve gas, so attendants always pump for me. They tend to pump at full speed, and stop after the first auto cut-off.)
I'm not doubting, I've seen more than one poster claim more than 12 gallons pumped, I'm just curious how to do it.
It's believeable considering that Ray lives in a hot climate, meaning the bladder typically accepts more fuel, PLUS he's been jamming gas into it for 34,000 miles, which has probably stretched it out a little. Ray may have the country's biggest Prius gas tank.melgish said:Something doesn't add up.
Especially if he's getting the same 2.7% error between MFD and pump that I've been averaging since day 1. That puts his fuel usage at 12.9 gallons.
Just about every time I've gone over 10.00 gallons I've seen gas.
I tend to fill at the same one or two as well, and yes, if it shuts off WAY early, I tell them to continue. Except one time when the station was about 15 cents a gallon more than everyone else, but I'd been on the blinking pip for 10 miles with my wife in the car, so I filled up as soon as possible. When it auto shutoff after only 2.5 gallons, and the attendant gave me a quizzical look (like "I thought you said 'fill 'er up'...") with a "Is that it?" I retorted "Yeah, I've only driven 350 miles on this tank..." (That's what the MFD said!)sutherlin12 said:I live in Oregon too and I've had attendents pump as little as 3 1/2 gallons in my car at full speed. Now I just tell them, "It will shut off early. But it needs about 10 gallons, so please top it off." I don't have too many problems now, but I usually go to the same one or two gas stations too.ehurtley said:(I live in Oregon where there is no self-serve gas, so attendants always pump for me. They tend to pump at full speed, and stop after the first auto cut-off.)
I'm not doubting, I've seen more than one poster claim more than 12 gallons pumped, I'm just curious how to do it.
When the light blinks, I get gas. I dont think I have ever pumped more than 9gal, and usually 7/8. Warm climate also, but not hot. I dont think it is wise to try to drain the tank, or put in more than what it readily takes when the pump auto clicks off.Sonwise said:I just had my first "noticeable" experience of the expanding bladder gas tank yesterday. I was down to 1 pip, not blinking, and it took 11.205 gallons without even trying real hard. Temperature here, in Austin as well, was around 100 or a bit more. I had put 11.2 gallons in once before, but the pip was blinking at that time.
Demonstrates the importance of averaging over several tanks to get you true average mpg.