hello guys well im going to take care of my car this week, month soon

car honda civic ex 1.6 auto d16y8 162xxxx

i check my dash and so far my car gives me 250mpg per tank ...... mix city highway

thanks ok yes,,,,,, no should be better?

also any tune up kit out there for my car , no crazy or fancy stuff just the basic

thank you

 

Properly calculate gas mileage and post the average mpg from three fill ups.

 

2nd Ron's post.

But 250 is pretty damn shitty on a tank.

 

For a 15+ year old automatic, without knowing how well the car has been maintained, or how it's being driven, 25 might not be too bad.

 

Too many factors.

 

I have a '99 civic hatchback with a '94 B18C1. I get around 23 mpg with mixed city and highway driving. I would wait until my gas light turns on, fill up 5 gallons [I only drive my civic like once or twice a week now] and wait for my gas light to turn on again. When it does turn back on, divide your total miles driven since your last fill up by the number of gallons you used up (I would be dividing by 5). I ALWAYS calculate my mpg and 23 seems to be the average for me. It kind of sucks. I have an '09 Accord with a V6 that gets around 22 mpg (I mainly drive through stop-and-go traffic in LA with this car). Driving my civic wouldn't benefit me much for saving gas.

FIY, Your driving habit is a big factor in your mpg. Don't expect high numbers if you're constantly revving high.

 

That's a horribly inaccurate method. The correct way to do it is to fill it to full, reset your trip meter, then drive. Just....drive. At your next fill-up, fill all the way up, take your trip meter reading, and divide it by how many gallons you filled up with at that (the second) fill-up.

That's how you accurately measure your gas mileage on a tank.

 

i will post some pics.....

i already ordered tune up kit sparks, wires, cap,rotor and air filter

 

Don't forget your fuel filter, too.

 

This is the correct method... and it's important to note that a single fill-up may not give accurate results. You need three *consecutive* tanks, at a minimum. There is variation in how full your tank is every time you fill up, and that will tend to cancel out over consecutive tanks.

 

I don't agree with your method of calculating mpg because it doesn't seem accurate. But if the OP really wants to learn about mpp just head on over to ecomodders.

 

How is it not accurate? The total distance driven over time divided by the actual amount of fuel used over time is the very definition of mpg. My point was that it cannot be reliably determined from a single data point (i.e., one fill-up.) With consecutive fill-ups the error is contained in the first and last fillups.

An mpguino would give instantaneous feedback regarding economy, but it still must be calibrated.

 

Are you sure you quoted the right person, Tony? He was agreeing with me.

 

Ahh yes... it may appear that I was agreeing with the other method. That's not what I meant.

 

Dude just come run me over

 

I feel your pain man. Allergies are absolutely shitting on me.