600 mile tank...should I go for it??

Just to add to the confusion, I just had a 613 mile tank, with a 49.8 avg. The tank was filled to the brim before hand, but it only blinked for 41.7 miles.

 

WTG BBC!!

 

Just got my first over 600 mile tank and fill up before the last bar was flashing. If I had my spare gas with me I could have tried for 650.

 

When I read the first post in this thread, I thought I'd never get even close to 600 miles. My prior highest tank was 550. But it happened today. 607 miles.

When I filled up I filled it at a non self serve station so could not "push it" and they put in 10.83 gallons. The temperature on fill up was 87.

The info screen gave me 54.8 mpg. The calc mpg would be 56 but that's based upon a fill up only to the first cut off point on the pump.

My last bar was blinking for 22 miles.

 

I think you made it!

 

Just curious...

Why do people here seem to put so much emphasis on miles per tank, rather than miles per gallon?

Which is better? Person "A" who gets 80 mpg and fills up every 400 miles, or Person "B" who gets 60 mph but overfills their tank and pushes it to 650 miles before filling up?

And what does forcing an extra gallon into the tank prove? That you can flood the charcoal filter? That you can poor gasoline down the side of your car?

Maybe it's just an old wives' tale, but I've always heard, on car shows and such, that you should fill up around 1/4 of a tank for 2 reasons: One is that you don't want to run out of gas, because the fuel filter is in the tank and uses the fuel for lubrication, and the other is that over time, water and debris collects in the bottom of your tank with the gas floating on top and you don't want the engine sucking that stuff up.

 

Evan- This is a 700 mile tank in the making. I just filled up at 708 miles and I was only running 58.5 MPG.

Marlin- because we're just a bunch of big sillies.

People who look for silly behaviours have their hands full if they live with humans.

 

Marlin,

I couldn't agree with Evan more. No one is better than anyone else here, but for some of us with long drives, and previous vehicles we had to fill up every other day or so - it's kind of nice for us to brag among each other that we can now go, say, 700 miles before filling up. For me, that's going 11 work days instead of 2.5 without filling up. And on the very unlikely possibility that I happen to have problems down the road with the filters or the gas tank - it'll be my problem and I'll have to deal with it/pay for it/etc.

Evan -

I hope you can hit the mark before your trip, but if not, you can always try again! If you make it, next step is regularly getting 600 mile tanks! Have a good trip!

-m.

 

Go for it!

I'm a newby and haven't gone beyond the 500 mile mark - still learning and really really really don't want to investigate how quickly the last two fuel bars fade away during my commute. I've got 139 miles on my current tank with all the bars still there, so this will probably be my first 500 miler, although I'm at less than 50 MPG so it will depend on the city stop and go traffic today and tomorrow that I'll be doing instead of my normal commute.

You just may need to make a lunch time cruise somewhere to make sure you get to 600 before leaving for your trip.

Cheers & Good Luck!
Jeff

 

Evan, now that you know that its in reach, you will have other opportunities to do it. your time will come

 

Nothing silly about it Evan - setting a goal and achieving it in this car is something to be proud of! An early congrats to you, and I have yet to even break 60mpg for a tank, so I don't think this thread is silly at all!

-m.

 

nothing silly about it at all... if you had seen me when i got my 602 mile tank you would have thought that i had lost it or something.

my last bar started blinking at 570 miles or and it was the most stressful 30 miles of my life, but i have to admit that even the proudest of peacocks would have admired my strut at the gas station!

 

First time I got 600 I was ultra stressed. I went by gas stations with 3 bars thinking I could get home easy! Then the three went to 1 faster than usual and it was night in the middle of nowhere climbing steep hills.

Then it went to 1 bar flashing and had another 20 miles up hills to get to a station that might be closed for the night and I knew for sure I could not make it to any other stations. ! I made it on fumes and the station was still open.

The next time got easier as I got to 600 before the flashing! One reason I try for mega-fills! I filled up right then. Not ready yet to try for 650. For 700 I will have to get better mpg too! Winter is coming so I can relax and just fill up regularly till next summer!