List your tips to get better gas mileage please...

Thanks!

 

I always use non ethanol fuel, usually increases my MPG and is better for the fuel system!

 

drive 45mph. avoid hills. don't stop.

 

What Steve244 said.

Keep your tires inflated. Avoid short trips and driving in bad weather. Use the vent or heater in the car rather than opening windows or using the air conditioner.

It's not really better gas milage, but you can rather obviously save gas by not driving (e.g. carpooling, combining trips, working from home, biking).

 

i've been averaging 37 mgp's on all the fillup's so far. Only have about 1500 miles on my 2013 5mt Fit. This is pretty much all commuting, 50/50 city/hwy. Here's what I do:

- Without being annoying and staying safe, leave space between you and car in front, use brakes as little as possible. Time your accelerations to the lights ahead so you can coast as much as possible

- on flat roads, say i'm going 40+ mph, i try to get to 5th gear asap and coast in 5th.

- on hwy i stay about 65-70 mph.

 

How much would you save if you remove the 2 back seats?

Thanks guys!

 

not much. It depends on how often you stop. Remember; no stopping.

 

• Short-shift and keep rpm low.
• Low top speed.
• Coast whenever you can.
• Minimize braking - if you have to brake you could have started coasting earlier and saved the gas over that distance.
• Anticipate everything as far ahead as you can. Look at the 2nd light ahead and adjust your speed to hit it on green. Leave enough space in front so a sudden right-turner in front of you doesn't force you to jam on the brakes.
• Be smooth.

 

Kidding aside, you should be able to achieve 35mpg easy on the interstate without annoying other drivers. Stay 65mph or less. Try to keep a steady speed.

You're in South Carolina? I85 is not too hilly. If you're travelling up to Asheville a lot, the mountains such as they are will kill your mpg.

What is your driving pattern like?

 

sometimes being in a lower gear when you need to be, depending on speed will get you better gas mileage. if u need to accelerate or go the speed of traffic, the quicker u get to the speed you can cruise in, the more time your car will be cruising and the better your gas mileage would be. i hardly use 5th gear in local driving and i get close to 30 mpg with no freeway. but if u have an automatic i guess disregard.

 

get an ETC (Electronic Throttle Controller), it will help modulate the overly sensitive gas pedal better for lead footers

 

Don't live in the city.

 

Pretty much always, lower rpm / higher gear is better. Obviously if you can't maintain the speed you want, downshift.

This is my own testing with a calibrated Scangauge. 2 miles straight flat highway, average of 2 runs there and back. 25 mph is the lowest cruise control will hold.

 

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As other people have already said, keep your tires properly inflated. I've had the best MPG and handling performance with 38psi front and 36psi rear, ~30-32mpg 50/50 city/hwy during daily driving. For road trips I use 36f/36r since there's cargo in the back.

Additionally, I've had better milage with 87 or 91 octane fuel instead of 85 here in Colorado. There are numerous threads on FitFreak about octane ratings and performance (just search for "octane") but my "2-cents" is to use what the Honda owners manual says: "87 or better". My Fit feels like she has less power with 85 octane but I can't tell any difference between 87, 91, or 93. Interesting reading: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octane_rating
In my experience the optimal highway cruising speed for our Fits seems to be ~70mph. I figure it's not a coincidence that the speedometer needle points straight up at that speed. ~55-65mph yields better gas milage (I almost achieved 40mpg on a road trip Denver->Alamosa, 39.9mpg according to my Fit), but at 80mph+ the milage is significantly reduced (another road trip, Denver->Kansas City, only 28.6mpg).

 

I drive from a town near Columbia to Knoxville 2 times per week (300 miles each). I use I26 to Ashville then I40 to Knoxville. It's curvy and includes the smokey mountains so yeah, it's hilly.

I'll be putting 80k miles on this in the next 2 years so mpg is very important to me.

Thanks for the info so far.

 

The rest of the country doesn't have 85, just the mountainous west. At higher altitudes, with less oxygen and fuel being metered into the engine, lower octane than 87 is ok. Higher mpg won't result from a higher octane rating where it's not needed/recommended.

I agree, 55-65 yields better mpg than 70mph. Optimal cruising speed depends on what you're trying to optimize.

 

Where can u get non-enthanol fuel? No stations here on the east coast sells it.

 

It is sold in SC, NC, and TN for sure...I see them weekly. They are kinda rare and the per gal price is ussually 20 to 40 cents more.

 

Did you mean, "leave little space between you and the car in front"?

 

The speed limit is 70 so I try to go about 10 over. So I range from 65-85.