MPG! AHH

[Vlady]

Originally Posted by Malt

Are you using the dash mpg readout or manually calculating? When I was running the E85 maps the dash reading was off by a pretty massive amount. I'd be highly surprised if you were actually getting 32.5 running a S2 E85 map. After manually calculating my mileage I was around mid 20's with some spirited driving.

That's what the dash mpgs is telling me. I will definitely manually calculate it on the next fill up and report back.

[Malt]

Originally Posted by Vlady

That's what the dash mpgs is telling me. I will definitely manually calculate it on the next fill up and report back.

Don't be surprised if it's 20% to 25% lower than what the dash reports. There is speculation that the ecu uses the O2 sensor as part of the calculation in fuel economy. There is supposedly a table that can be modified in romraider to fix the display but I haven't looked for it since I swapped back to gas for the cold weather. Shiv mentioned that he was going to look into fixing this sometime in the future but I'm sure this is a low priority item for him.

[bfrank1972]

Originally Posted by Malt

Driving with common courtesy on public roads and saving the hooning for the track doesn't equal being a granny in my book.

Lighten up Francis. Nobody's hooning or driving like a maniac here. Just saying it's pretty remarkable people are getting 40mpg out of these cars - with a little tongue in cheek humor! I guess short trips really take their toll with these cars.

[Malt]

Originally Posted by bfrank1972

Lighten up Francis. Nobody's hooning or driving like a maniac here. Just saying it's pretty remarkable people are getting 40mpg out of these cars - with a little tongue in cheek humor! I guess short trips really take their toll with these cars.

Unfortunately humor sometimes gets lost in translation on forums, especially when previous posts similar to yours were not meant in such light hearted fashion. Either way you are right, short commutes can murder an average FE.