If you really want to save on gas put small light weight tires on it. With the stock tires on mine I saw upwards of 25mpg (the EVIC had a best of 32 on one stretch) on the freeway doing the speedlimit. Now that I have larger tires I am seeing 18-20 Hwy and 12-14 around town.

 

Are those calculated numbers or what the overhead is telling you?

Its a 4.7 V8. The engines offered for our Durangos were 3.7 V6, 4.7 V8, or 5.7 V8.

 

sell it and buy a smaart car go from 15 to 45 plus get the tax brakes. (and dont worry you wont be raped to hard for a recycled beer can only 35g) lol

 

They have brakes on taxes now? Where are the wheels?
FF

 

They say that Prius mod works pretty good, gets you about 50 mpg, but it's a kinda expensive mod though... LOL...


I actually just went about 2 weeks ago and dug my old mountain bike out of storage, then I remembered why I stuck it in storage. The rear shifter don't work, I can only shift the three positions on the big sprocket up front. Was a good bike in it's day, a Trek 830. Dunno how it stacks up to bikes today. I need to find a place to fix it and get my butt on it for short trips and running errands in town. I remember buying it when I was dating my ex-wife, so it had to be around 1990. Bought me that Trek and her an Iron Horse and we used to ride trails all over the Catskills when we lived in upstate NY. I prolly ain't had my fat a$$ on that bike since about 1998...

 

overhead, why is that not accurate? , thanks I could not remember..

 

One of the personnel at my dealer tried to tell me that when you shut off your car, all memory is lost on the overhead display so it is not accurate. It does not know when to start and stop in essence,
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That may be part of it, Fascist. On our vehicles, the overhead/computer is "guesstimating" on your MPGs based on the sensors on the engine. No where do we have a fuel amount/volume sensor to tell it how much actual fuel is being consumed. Basically, it uses the amount of air and a few other tidbits to guess what the fuel consumption is.

Every vehicle I've ever been in with an overhead console has been off. A third to half the time they are close to accurate, the other half or two thirds they are off by a few MPG. The only way to accurately tell your MPG is by using your trip odometer at the pump. Take how many miles you've driven divided by how many gallons you put into the tank.

The overhead is a good "instant guess" that may be somewhat close, but never trust it for an average, especially on a whole tank.