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Oh thanks for all the tips guys. Does anyone happen to know how many liters the eco has left (roughly) when the gas light comes on?
My low fuel light comes on with roughly 35-36L used (31-32L on the dic), and the needle drops to E with roughly 38-39L used (35-36L on the dic). The tank volume is about 49L (12.9 us gal), so when it drops to E you've got maybe 10L left.

That's a ROUGH guideline... I've never put more than 40L into the tank so I can't confirm anything beyond that.


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WHAT? That's the dic display I really want to see! Your instant history as you're driving in small steps! My '12 Canadian Eco only shows over the last 31 miles (50km).

What year/model is that pic from???



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2013 ECO 6mt built on 13 May 2013

I usually reset this one and the best mpg game one at times. Largest I seen the trend go was 50 miles. I think it changes when you change best from 25-50-500 miles

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Second tank of gas averaging about 43 MPG on the DIC. I had it around 48 but every time the wife takes the car out it comes back significantly lower lol.
I don't think she is being "ECO Friendly" with the 1st 3 gears. The number I keep freaking out about is my lifetime mpg OnStar tells me I am getting. It goes down by 1 every month like clockwork. 30 MPG is where it sits now.
 

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I don't even use onstar to be honest... I only used it once to navigate me somewhere :) She revs it to 3000 which I don't do when I hypermile. I basically always shift at or just above 2000, even less in some gears. Her drive is pretty hilly though so I can't blame her. Though when I drove it to her work I still managed to get 47MPG lol. We will see what happens when I inflate the tires to 45psi and it breaks in a little bit.
 

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Her drive is pretty hilly though so I can't blame her. Though when I drove it to her work I still managed to get 47MPG lol.
Sounds like a good excuse to teach her a few techniques! You could also back it up with a little $ math and show her how much extra it costs every month when she drives un-eco-friendly compared to your 47 MPG target.
 

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Yea. I've tried but she has little interest. To her a car is simply an appliance designed to be used in ways that she wants and requires no special attention lol. For example her minivan gets about 16 MPG because she really doesn't care at all about mileage (tons of idling). I've been trying to explain to her it's an easy place to save a hundred or so dollars a month because we typically use a lot of gas (my commute and her idling lol). I'll get through to her eventually. I have to admit she was asking a few questions about how to get better gas mileage the other day and I was thoroughly impressed with her.

This car is just too easy to hypermile though. This is my commute to work:


The way home really sucked because there was a huge storm I was driving through so my average dropped to 50.1. I'm going to try and get it back over 55 on my commute to work today see what happens :)
 

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According to my car I just averaged 58+ MPG round trip to work today. My previous best was 52+ MPG. 30 miles each way. I'd say I'm hooked.
 

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Yea they do but mine are inflated to around 45 PSI. I'm going to take them to 51 psi (written on sidewall as max) when I get a little more comfortable. Second fill up was 44.2 :)
 

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I'm running my Goodyear FuelMax Assurance tires at 45 PSI. The car actually handles better between 40 and 45 PSI than it does at 35 PSI.
 

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I found the ride a little too squishy at 35. But I like feeling some of the road and drove my civic with a solid mount for a while (talk about vibration)
 

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Very nice first road trip!



What he said. Put a few tanks through it and keep track of your fill-ups. After 4-5 tanks you can look at your DIC indicated mileage for each tank and then compare that to you actual calculated mileage based on fill data and odometer readings. You'll come up with a correction factor that you can use to better estimate your mileage.

I correct mine at -7%, others seem to vary between about 5-10%. Even so, my correction factor isn't exactly the same each time, so the only way to be sure is to average it out over full tanks. With the Eco and it's early fuel tank cap-off (which gives it an artificially limited 12.9 gallon capacity), filling can be a little inconsistent as well depending on the flow rate of the specific pump you're at and how level the car is sitting. That's why I suggest working out your correction factor over a few tanks.

There are lots of fuel tracking methods you can pick from as well; Fuelly (most popular), Ecomodder (see my sig), and many more I'm not aware of as well as countless smartphone apps. I use a smartphone app to record my data at the pump and then update my on line trackers at home on the PC. This saves me from having to keep track of paper reciepts.

Welcome to the forum, and good luck with your mileage!
I have a 2012 Eco with 11000 miles and I have never seen never MPG like that. Makes me wonder if there is something wrong with my car. When I say anything to the dealer about my "lack luster" MPG, they for one say not check engine no problem and it will take x amount of miles. Where X is something so far in the future to make me forget about any possibility of a problem.
 

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Well my driving is mostly highway. I personally average closer to 50MPG problem is every time my wife gets into it it drops by 5 or a little more. I hypermile every time I drive it to maximize what I get. Cruze control kills mileage on the highway on this car I've noticed so I don't use it.
 

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Patman, have you put your ECO into metric and monitored for DFCO (0 L/100KM). If you don't see this value while coasting you have a problem.
 
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