the biggest factor is definitely your driving style. if you floor it everywhere you go or even half the time that's gonna majorly reduce the gas mileage you get. and then of course traffic always plays a big part too as opposed to being on the highway.

 

27.45MPG on my last tank. All city :O

 

Wheel alignment also can change gas mileage. If you have a toe in problem, that'll cause a little decline in gas mileage...and the same goes for camber issues. If your wheels aren't aligned properly, then your car is having to "push" the tires instead of letting them just roll. It's kind of hard to explain...but you get the general idea.

 

i get like 350+ ON MY LS auto after getting valve adjustment/timing belt/distributor cap and rotor/plugs and wires/ignition wires..

 

Shit! I think i get like 13 mpg , what the hell is wrong? i just changed the oil and filter. My oil was dark as hell before i changed it. I just started to drive the car like 2 weeks now, so I,m gonna see how the mileage is gonna turn out i am also gonna get a tune up. but i had a 93 civic vtec and it only got like 15 mpg and i drive slow as hell. Even when i swapped the civic motor witha similair one i got the same mileage. Maybe its not the engine? could it be the tranny cause i didnt change th e tranny or something else?

 

Scheduled tuneups are the only thing I can recommend to you. It is obvious that there is little to no maintenence done to your car, so I would start there. The money it takes to do a mild tune-up will be easily recovered by the money you save on gas.

And oil is supposed to be dark black when you change it. If it wasn't, I would be very worried.

 

I change my oil every 2000 miles and its not dark black, is there something wrong with my chipmunks? Are they doing something wrong? Why should my oil be dark black? I have never heard that before. Even on my big block cutlass after beating it for a few months the oil never gets very dark. Is that a honda thing for the oil to be dark?

 

Last three fill-ups...

300.4 miles, 11.455 gallons, 26.22 mpg
302.6 miles, 11.613 gallons, 26.06 mpg
296.5 miles, 10.685 gallons, 27.75 mpg

This is what I'd call combined city/hwy mileage. The last time I had a fill-up after strickly highway miles was back in 2002...

332.9 miles, 9.481 gallons, 35.11 mpg

I know, it's sick to keep track of all this.

JD

 

:chuckles: Don't worry, I'm much more neurotic.

I've got every fillup logged for the last two years. :eek3:

 

Check that... who's much more neurotic? My fill-up records go back to May 2001.