My 2018 Prius Three is draining gas FAST

Aha, I don't even print paper receipt. With Shell, gas receipt is e-mailed to me.

 

I still have my receipt from when I got gas last April.

 

Agree. But Chime won't be back for 3 weeks. We need to get creative.

And with all due respect, I didn't quite understand the suggestion someone made about keeping gas receipts? I don't think I've ever saved one in my life... and now that I drive a Prius, I've only been to a gas station twice, since 2016!

 

Wow, that's only ~1200 miles driven in two years!

 

He's been back quite often and answered all our questions - I think we've been helpful overall.

Once the first fill is eliminated (to fill the car in the first place), taking into account his good readings, he probably doesn't have a problem.

@Chime - could you take an accurate look at the fuel gauge maybe every day - maybe while the car is first started and before you drive off. And see how it compares with the same view the next day. (And note down how many miles you drove that day too.) Do that every day for a week.

 

I remember them - GUESS Gauges.



Where the top mark meant it was roughly 3/4 full, and the bottom meant ¼ full. "E" meant that the engine had STOPPED, and "F" was overflowing if you parked with a lean to the left.

And if you drove up a hill, it would go from ½ to ¼ - and reverse the antics on the way back down.

 

Chime is a 26 yr old woman.

And her head must be spinning from reading 127 different suggestions!! I still don't believe there's anything wrong with her car. Just drive it.

 

let's not box the o/p into an unnecessary definition.

 

I know. I drive less than bisco!

 

What's a "definition"? Men are men, and women are women. If that ever changes, I'm moving to Pluto! It says woman in her bio.

Back to my hamburger.

(Call me "it." )

 

are you saying pluto is a guy?

 

Why not “shim”.

 

An easy way to record your fuel usage and MPG history is to use an app or web site called fuelly available via a wed site called fuelly,com. It tracks your cost of fuel, MPG per tank, MPG to date. All I do is record my odometer reading on the ticket as I get into my car with receipt in hand. If convenient I use my phone and enter it then before driving off but usually I'm in a hurry and do the same on a tablet or computer when I get home. You enter that you want to add a fill-up, enter the price and the gallons off the printed ticket and anything else is optional. The ownership MPG really doesn't mean much until you have driven for several re-fills but after that you start to see useful graphs and such if you want. Or you can just see their instantaneous calculation after entering each fill-up.

It even enables you to imbed your "lifetime" MPG into your signature here as you see below. (I have the wagon version of the Prius so you can see my MPG is lower than what others are expecting for your car. Pretty close to average for the v wagon though.)

Kinda an easy way to run what used to be done on a spreadsheet.

Hope you find out what is wrong.

 

Sure is:



Pluto is also an ex-Planet . I feel sorry for it.

 

Don't know. But it's gotta be better than living here with these nuts on Earth! Problem is, all the nuts have the same idea. But maybe they will follow Musk to Mars... and Pluto will be peaceful.

 

Rong Planet


And, I don't recall nuts in a Mars?

 

Again, with all due respect to guys like Mike (above), why do some people feel the need to "chart" and track and do spreadsheets on their Prius gas mileage?

Is it a hobby?
A contest?
Or are you bored out of your wits (like me?! )

Am I the only Prius driver that is not concerned about MPG? Most of the time I don't even look at it. I just fill-up whenever I feel like.... and just drive it!! Unless there is a major malfunction, I know the mpg will normally always be somewhere between 52 and 58 (calculated), so I just go about my way and don't concern myself with it.

I never charted the mpg in any other vehicle, so why bother with a great gas-saver like a Prius? In fact, I like to turn off all those display screens, and not be distracted with anything. Complete attention to driving. (And no cell phone.) just the AM radio with sports talk.

(I'm a rebel! Better revoke my Prius magic FOB!)

 

But it is still a dwarf planet, one of the several types of minor planets.

While only 5 objects are currently officially recognized as dwarf planets, numerous other known bodies almost certainly fit that definition, and hundreds more are suspects.

 

After filling three times in a single week, you think our haranguing will put the fourth fillup back three weeks?

I need to submit numerous fuel refills for expense reimbursement, and that always requires a receipt.

 

It was three years ago when NASA shared the first image of Pluto taken with a camera named Ralph. An enhanced image showed us rich and wonderful color variations, and now there’s an infrared image as well. It’s amazingly rich in details.

The image was originally captured on 14 July 2015 by the Ralph/Multispectral Visual Imaging Camera (MVIC). It combines blue, red and infrared images and the variety of colors shows different geological and climatological areas.
[via The Planetary Society; image credits: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute]