My first attempt at hypermiling = FAIL

^^^ First thing I bought was the Toyota caps... actually that was the second thing, first thing was the Cadillac horns!

Wish I'd have checked Priuschat first...I was unaware of the Home Depot cap mod (reminds me of the Fernco mod on my 99 Trans Am).

I've been thinking of painting the rims black to match the Vette...but I'm not sure if I'll like it as much, haven't made up my mind.

 

Yes I paid $65 from EBay!

They are nice caps though. High quality.

 

Please, be kind.

I am asking for tips. That doesn't mean I will use all of them. However, I appreciate all of them as I think a rational review of my posts will support and in fact, I am using many of them.

Don't think less of me because I won't do everything you do, and I won't think less of you who keeps calling my ego into question.

The title of my thread was on purpose - it's an advertising thing, you have to make a forum title attractive so people have interest and step in. Had I titled it "Please tell me all your advice and I'll use what I want to" would not have garnered interest and I wouldn't have 4 pages of responses.

 

Dude what makes you think I have a huge ego? Give it a rest! Life is too short to troll.

Does this board have an "ignore" feature? Guess I could search for that too.

 

This is exactly where I'm at. If I'm doing 70, I will try to gain a little speed going down the meager "hills" we have here and not keep up to speed going up hills.

I'm thrilled with the mileage and glad that several of the tips in this thread bore real fruit as to additional mileage.

It gets tough to search 50 pages of a thread where most of the posts are not on point to glean tips. Sometimes starting a new thread is appropriate (after searching appropriately).

I appreciate all the time folks took to respond to me in this thread with the helpful tips. We need a "cheers" emoticon!

And you are totally correct.... I was shopping for ScanGage yesterday, comparing it to the iPhone engine management app discussed earlier in this thread. I already have a bluetooth odbii that works with Android but not iPhone, so I was looking for a reasonable wifi obdii adaptor and balancing that cost with just buying a used Android phone or pad. Haven't decided yet, but I"m thinking I might enjoy the additional real estate of an Android 7" tablet (if I can find one with bluetooth as it seems they are lacking bluetooth at the cheaper levels).

 

Here is a legitimate question:

Even going sinfully fast at the posted speed limit (70), I've taken to keeping steady pedal pressure going down the meager "hills" we have here (which are overpasses to surface roads below) gaining a little speed (the horror) and similarly, not keeping my deadly speed up when going up the hill and lagging down to say 65 or even lower.

I tried it with cruise control, letting the computer keep my speed steady, but seemed to me it would go right up to the edge of the ECO and I thought I saw into the PWR band on the HSI to keep speed up to a solid 70.

Thus, it seemed to me that a better way to get mileage is to manually build up speed going downhill and let it bleed off going uphill vs letting the cruise control maintain steady speeds.

Am I right with this theory?

 

It's true, I see it. I don't want to be "that guy". I wasn't going to post this but since you did I will agree with you.

Florida is a right to carry state and people do. South Florida has criminals, foreigners, and rednecks. Any can cause you a bad day if you poke at them. I try to maintain a relatively low profile on the road and always leave myself an out from intersections, etc. I've never had a road rage incident and don't plan to even if that means I won't get on the list.

OMG...I realize what you mean. I did a 55 mph drive on I95 the way home from work as I was sweating bullets, 0 DTE as I entered the highway and 22 miles before I could safely pull off to get fuel. I made it and earned my first 500 mile tank!



But it wasn't without drama...wow, was I amazed at how people flew up on my tail and then quickly swerved to miss me! Dodged a near collision when a guy swerved around me, then back in front of me, and almost collided with a guy who was merging on the highway from the right.

I have a real question.

Are there any South Florida commuters in the Hypermiler club? If so, do they do this on I95 during rush hour? I just don't see how you could drive 55 for long without getting into an accident, as fast as people shot up on my bumper.