700 Mile Club

It is displaying about 63.8MPG and thanks for the input. I will check my tires again but I do the front at 40 and back 38PSI I also never did add that .2 or .3 extra gallons after the first click but I do let the gas fill up slow to get a fuller tank with out it clicking : ) short trips are hard to avoid in Chicago but Ill try harder. I know I can get to 67 MPG display maybe on the next tank . 700miles to a tank is not impossible to me after getting to 600miles to the tank but you really have to try and not make any mistakes. I drove about 35 miles after 0miles was displayed how much more can I push for? is 40 or 50 miles after 0 miles a safe bet that I wont run out of gas? Thanks for the help

 

11x displayed will get you very close to running on fumes (or plain running out of gas), depending on your previous fill-up. A displayed 64 mpg can get you to 700 miles (11 x 64 = 704 miles), but you are really pushing it if you go that route. Me, personally, I'd want to be a lot closer to 67 mpg than 64 mpg on a 700 mile attempt.

I think at DTE = 0, you will have about 2.0 (+/- 0.1 gallons) in the tank.

 

I am in the process of trying to hit 700. currently the display says 65.1 and I am at 625 miles. DTE went to 0 at about 600. Accounting for a 6% error by the display of 65.1 mpg, i'm getting approx 61.2 mpg which would have put me at 10 gallons used around 612 miles. IF this is true. I'd have 1.9 gallons to go 88 miles, which seems entirely do able, esp if I'm feathering the gas and trying to conserve every drop. Those to make it to 700 think i stand good chances?

 

If you think you got a pretty full fill you should be ok.

 

typically just fill up until it clicks, my last fill up was 10.06 gallons and 600 miles. I figure with a higher displayed MPG I should be able to obtain 700 at 11.25 gallons

 

You'll be cutting it close, but I think that if you got a full tank (as Marabele asked) you will make it.

 

Sign me up for the club.
mileage from may 28th to june 13th 2013
Ran approx 105 miles once DTE was at 0, and approx 125 from when the light started blinking
weather was very good with most days in the 70s.
My daily trip is 45 miles interstate 6 miles rural country roads.
I tried to maintain as minimal speed on interstate, follow semis or other slow cars whenever possible. 5 of my 6 rural road miles can typically be attained with no gas.
Tires are at 42 all around

 

Congrats! When I took a look at your first pic, I did the mental math and figured you added 11.3 gallons (or so), looks like that was very close to the actual fill up. How bad was your heart pumping, thinking/fearing you might run out of gas?

 

LOL. I was kinda scared my drive to finish this off was 99% interstate so I was hoping not to run out. However i did have my wife on stand by if i ran out.

 

Was she ready to push? What a women!

 

Our 2003 Prius:

GPS corrected: ~752 miles.


GPS corrected: 112 miles. NOTE: I had a spare gallon in the trunk.


GPS corrected miles: ~752 miles due to oversized front tires.


Curious, I've never filled it with 12.2 gallons before. Usually 11.7 has been the best.

Technical details here:
600 Mile Club | Page 14 | PriusChat

Bob Wilson

ps. For now, our 2010 Prius is parked due to the pending brake recall. Once we can trust the brakes, we'll have plenty of time this summer to see how far it can go. My expectation:

• 600 miles - done that several times
• 700 miles - 100% confident
• 800 miles - 75% confident
• 900 miles - 50% confident
• 1,000 miles - 15% confident

One tank and then we can put this away.

 

Def some big ones on you bwilson. on the 2005 I had the gas gauge was so terrible I didn't trust it as far as i could throw that car.

 

so this might be a first, 700 mile tank while keeping under 60mpg indicated. but I really pushed the pulse and glide for me and lots of coasting, plus probably 250 miles highway at 55mph max speed. and I topped the tank on this before starting for about 12 clicks until very full. started last Monday morning.
tried a few mods, did an oil change at about 150 on this tank to mobile 1 0w20, and I added moon disk covers Monday morning out of 18" aluminum pizza pans screwed onto factory 15" plastic hubcaps. again, my readings on the computer are low, as I included a picture of the receipt below with 10.47 gallons and it spewed out at the end after 20 clicks. so calculated 67.8mpg. This seems the opposite of what most of you are getting, where calculated is less than read on the readout. I am open to thoughts on that. receipt below-
sorry, looks like it doubled up the photos when I uploaded them. and receipt is sideways. air in tires is 50psi, tires are cheapo milestar touring se's that came with car ( and were new unfortunately). car has about 54k on it, I have put about 10k on it in 3 months or so. I use it for bids in a 50 mile radius, so I drive a bit in the city and on interstate 540 here going from city to city. the temps this week have been cool for august- 60-80 degrees. we are in the Ozark mountains, and the tall hills here eat the mpg's going up no matter how slow or what I do and they don't seem to give it back much when coasting down. that may have something to do with the whole calculated and indicated mileage thing, but not sure.

 

forgot 2 things- last pip started flashing at 643, and dte hit zero at 669.8.

 

At this point, you've burned about 9.6 gallons leaving about 2.4 gallons usable. Put a 1 gallon spare can for 'confidence' and you'll hit 700 miles easily.

Bob Wilson

 

A description of your techniques
Charging PIP 2 or 3 times a day trying to stealth when possible using cc on freeway speeds from 55-72mph

Time of year summer 90+ degrees no AC.
How long you ran on the blinking low-fuel warning light 136 miles

 

F8L's back!

And btw...I think 510bg drives a PiP and you added him to the list here.

 

Welcome back. You are correct I do have a PIP. =p

 

I see . . . OPPS!

I had created a PiP table but could not find anyone who wants to join us . . . until now. <grins>

You are now the sole resident of the PiP table which I just published in the PiP sub-forum.

Bob Wilson