Honda sent me a letter saying I should bring my car in for a change around 3.5 to 3.75k miles. I just followed what they told me to do. The first change was free.

I wasn't sure how long the break in oil was supposed to be in there

 

Tank 25 = 31.459
Tank 26 = 32.957
Tank 27 = 35.660
Tank 28 = 34.004
Tank 29 = 33.718
Tank 30 = 36.881
Tank 31 = 35.808
Tank 32 = 35.719
Tank 33 = 36.439
Tank 34 = 37.304
Tank 35 = 34.053
Tank 36 = 34.665

Total through 11170 miles = 34.114mpg.
2007 Sport Auto
The warmer weather + break in + new oil helps.

-troy

 

Just watch your oil life % gauge when it get to 15-20% take it in usually about 7-7.5k miles. I am surprised your dealer did that. Money greedy dealer I guess.

 

warmer weather "definately" helps on MPG...

 

Yeah probably. I think the gauge had my oil around 40 or 50% at the time it was changed.

 

first tank----70 city--35 mpg

second tank---100% city--30 mpg

new 2007 fit sport-AT

 

I recently started to upshift using only the paddle shifter, very short upshifting, 1 to 2, 2 to 3, 3 to 4 and 4 to 5, never letting the tachometer go over 3K RPMs (if you let the automatic transmission change the gears for yourself, the rpm will always exceed the 3K RPMs), the gas mileage (city of course) has improved, about additional 50 miles for the very same fill-up... but after years and years of using the traditional AT, now using the paddle shifters is a real challenge in terms of adopting a new driving style, I still have to remember to change the gears with the paddle shifters and not letting the AT do that for me... I use the paddle shifters in D only, so when I've reached the 5th gear I let the AT drive my car including the automatic d/shift...
Chris

 

at 2700 miles I am still adv 33mpg with a high of 34 and a low of 29.5

 

Yup I have seen the same thing paddle shifting at or below 3k. Some days I am to lazy to bother.

USA Chris

 

You do not save much but you save something which... why not? This is for city only, open road you set the cc on your preferred cruising speed and enjoy the beautiful cows off the road In the city, using this system, I get about 50 kms (32 miles) more per tank than letting the AT do its own procedure...
At the beginning I used to forget to use upshifting paddle, 24+ years with no such system, but now I think I'm getting it on a daily basis, the problem will be in 5-7 years when I decide to buy another car, not necessarily Fit (maybe no Fit anymore) and no such technology anymore or just the high-end vehicles having it... now I enjoy the paddle shifters only!!!
That's a new TV commercial, the one with the red Mitsubishi Lancer, cool music, I like it very much, paddle shifters included
Canada Chris

 

The one thing I do is if I am coming to a full stop I just let the car down shift itself to first gear since it does a better job the me. I do that in S mode

USA Chris

 

i get 30 mpg every time --100% city---im going to quit checking for awhile and just enjoy it

 

BINGO... finally somebody with a very refreshy choice... for God sakes, life is too short to waste it for mpg here, mpg there...
Enjoy your Fit and drive safely
Chris

 

Happy to report last city mpg at 35mpg. Very happy...

 

Second tank and I got 35 MPG. 273.3 x 7.8 Gal = 35 MPG, first tankfull only about 22, I forget to check how much gas it took.
I am happy with this tankfull, hope it continues!

500 miles so far.

07 White Fit

 

I'm not the first one from the green light! Lots of people don't tune into just how hard they leave from the stop lights!!!

 

spreadin the love

first 40.5MPG couldnt thought it could get any better ... then one tank later 43MPG !!!!

utilized some hypermiling techniques like popping it into neutral on downgrades, drafting trucks (use to always do this but this time i knew the "sweet spot"), etc

it was like driving with the force, when you have the objective in mind you can absorb all the subtle inputs and know how much throttle to open to just maintain speed and what speed is most efficient under those conditions

aiming for 45MPG next time

 

I have no explanation for this, but it turned in 42.4mpg (us) last tank -- 378.8 miles and 8.935 gallons. That's like way better than anything I've ever seen out of this car. If only it did that all the time? About 18.5k on the odo now.

Does the warm weather really help?

 

I finally got over 25mpg this weekend, but it was 90% highway driving on a trip from Memphis to Dallas and back. I hit the 36 mpg mark. That was nice. Still getting between 20-24 in my normal city/highway mix though, that's disappointing.

 

35.7 Mpg combined but mostly 50 mph hilly 2-lane highway driving. Usually only about 31-32 mpg in town. Just hit 10,000 miles. Loving the car--no regrets!