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Old 12-20-2007, 08:12 PM
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Driving 75-80 will make big difference not to mention the much higher likelihood of getting a ticket.
The speedlimit between LA and NV is 75 lol.
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Hey fellas, the best Ive gotten in the city has been 245 miles to the tank, Ive driven it a couple of miles when its gotten down to the ZERO reading and when I filled up i had pumped 11,5 gallons which leads to me to believe that our xB's only bring a 12 gallon tank unlike scions webpage states 14 gallon tank.

Correct me if im wrong but the fuel light will not come on when you have 3 gallons of fuel in the tank.
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I have gotten 345 in summer, I usually average around 320. MPG is around 28-29 average.

Now that it's winter though, im lucky to get 270, or much above 25-26mpg.
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bigdaddeywalt, you are correct, the fuel light does not come on when you have 3 gallons left; it comes on when you have about 2.7 gallons left (about 20 miles on remaining range). I have taken it to:
Remaining range 3 miles; took 11.83 gallons (353 miles total on tank).
Remaining range 9.3 miles PAST zero; took 12.21 gallons (331 miles total on tank).
Remaining range 13.2 miles PAST zero; took 12.34 gallons (315 miles total on tank).

More gallons needed for less miles driven is because of amount of freeway miles.

It's a 14 gallon tank, Scion just gives us a whole lot of safety margin. I did the PAST zero testing on flat land, I wouldn't want to push it on hills.
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Old 12-21-2007, 03:26 PM
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Originally Posted by Turbo4door
On a trip this past summer, I got 382 miles on a tank and probably could have gone a bit futher. The gas light had come on at about 375 miles. It took 13.7 gallons to fill it.

This was on TRD 19s, a basically brand new car, and running 70+ mph - almost all highway.
13.7 gallons! now that is cutting it a little too close...

my low fuel light comes on with about 2 gallons or a little more left which is sufficient warning to fuel up...

i have put up to 12.5 gallons in it when fueling...
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hmmmm, I think I should try to see if i can go pass 12 gallons, but if i go empty while im on the road , then i will require ur help to get me some gas to get back home
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with a full tank of 94 octane i have only got 260 miles...
.... i have a heavy foot
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with an empty tank i fill up to 13.5 galons.
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Old 12-21-2007, 10:57 PM
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Originally Posted by TravTagz
with a full tank of 94 octane i have only got 260 miles...
.... i have a heavy foot
94 octane!?!

what are you using, racing fuel?
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Old 12-21-2007, 11:01 PM
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Originally Posted by TravTagz
with a full tank of 94 octane i have only got 260 miles...
.... i have a heavy foot
You do know that putting higher octane in a car that only needs 87 will yeild absolutely no gain whatsoever right? Complete waste of money.
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^^^ waist of money and it might mess up ur engine (so I heard)

i do 87 buddy.
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Old 12-22-2007, 01:57 AM
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^^^ waist of money and it might mess up ur engine (so I heard)

i do 87 buddy.
Doesn't do anything to the engine, the only thing octane does is increase resistance to detonation. So putting in 2136487468968467464 octane fuel will have the exact same effect as 87 octane in the tC, just the person putting in the higher octane is completely wasting money.
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Old 12-22-2007, 02:32 AM
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i only get about 260 but it has ben snowing and i dont like to scrap windows so it gets the 30 mon warm up but i only drive about 100 miles a week so a tank lasts almost a whole month sometimes
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Old 12-23-2007, 05:36 PM
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Originally Posted by CIONIDE
bigdaddeywalt, you are correct, the fuel light does not come on when you have 3 gallons left; it comes on when you have about 2.7 gallons left (about 20 miles on remaining range). I have taken it to:
Remaining range 3 miles; took 11.83 gallons (353 miles total on tank).
Remaining range 9.3 miles PAST zero; took 12.21 gallons (331 miles total on tank).
Remaining range 13.2 miles PAST zero; took 12.34 gallons (315 miles total on tank).

More gallons needed for less miles driven is because of amount of freeway miles.

It's a 14 gallon tank, Scion just gives us a whole lot of safety margin. I did the PAST zero testing on flat land, I wouldn't want to push it on hills.

Weird thing, last night my fuel light came on and when i went to pump gas i filled her up with 10.18 gallons and i only had 225 miles to the tank, youre suggesting that i can drive my car for about another 45-50 miles before she'll run dry? I have a old school corolla and when my fuel light comes on on that car it means that I have to go ASAP to fill up.
I just dont see how people can drive their cars when the fuel light comes on and not worry because some people are saying that it is a 14 gallon tank. Like I said earlier when the mile range on my car got to ZERO i drove it for another 5 miles after that and only filled up 11.71 gallons, in which if i want to push it to the limit at about 13.7 gallons it means i can drive for about another 40 miles before it goes dry??
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Like I said; Scion gives us a whole lot of safety margin. There is another thread somewhere in which somebody actually went about 30 miles past the ZERO miles on remaining range trip computer (I think it might have been jimmbomb, but I'm not positive).
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Old 12-24-2007, 03:27 AM
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only 150 miles.
How can you guys get more than 200 miles?
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Old 12-24-2007, 03:32 AM
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i wish i can get near 300 now.. =( im getting around 17 MPG..... i've driven 13 gallon gas (says while i filled it up) and i only got 250 miles =(
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i went 320 miles and took about 12.5 gallons to fill up... and most of that was 75-80mph...
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i filled up full tank yesterday (with the car chocking for gas) and it came to 14.246 galons
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Old 12-24-2007, 06:28 PM
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We have a winner!!!

14.246 gallons; holy out-of-gas batman!
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