When I filled up today...I had 284 miles on the tank. Put 9.5 gallons in it. Which translates into 29.something or just under 30mpg. That was with me driving HARD almost all the time.

 

the best ive ever gotten was around 350 miles on 12 gallons..around 30mpg...but, that was a long road trip, driving fairly easy...no stop lights...i got gas...drove for quite a while..then stopped to get gas again.

 

if it matters....i have a 95 neon i average around 32 with the A/C...but they probally changed the engines since then....i did notice a problem once though.....the gas tank has a little cap hose with a spring clip on it, and it was leakin'....but that's probally changed on the new models also.
i will definetly run out of gas at 340 miles.

wish i could help more

 

Hey,
How many miles do you have on your car???

If it's still under 10k, the engine is not fully broken in yet.

I had the same problem untill I broke 10k, now I average 26-30 arund town, and FAR better on the Hhighway.


I drove from Philly to Nags Head NC., 383 miles one one tank of gas. 37mpg. (on semi synthetic oil)


HELL YA!!!!!

I even have broke 40mpg on the highway once....


Give it tie to brake in, or, go back to the dealer and SCREAM untill you get what you want!!!






Jeff
Philly

 

It's got almost 20,000 miles on it right now. One thing I have noticed though, which might not mean anything, is that whenever I have the air conditioning set to either the Floor/Defrost or just the Defrost option it kicks my idle RPM from 500 to about 850. Maybe whenever I leave the defrost on it's killing my gas mileage. Weird thing though too. I let it get reallly low on gas again and I put about 8 gallons in and it filled my tank up? Maybe I just have a really small tank.

 

ok..I have no idea. I do know that my Neon will do a parking break stand burnout!!

 

If I fill up right after the first gas light comes on I usually end up putting in 9ish gallons....the tank should be 12.5 gallons. Mine is at least....

 

I think 12.5 sounds about right. I seem to remember that number form the book.

 

i have a 2000 neon and mine has a 12.5 gallon tank

 

I drive very hard and I get 200+ per tank with out a problem. I took a trip 2 weeks ago and averaged 36MPG. Can't beat that. Just for the record I have a CAI, so that probally helped a little.