JTR Gas Mileage with Stock MT tires

[ShadowsPapa]

My one way commute to work is ~13miles. Barring any accidents, etc about 10 miles of that is at most two short lights or stops @35-50mph. The last 3 miles is the killer constant stop and go...at least 5 lights, maybe 20mph, yada yada.

Reset my trip and one week of going to and from work im at ~17mpg. Being careful with how I drive....i put instant MPG on my dash and do what I can with throttle and manual shift to keep it as high as I can.

Funny thing is , one would think ESS would help...but it doesn't...at least not that I have seen. If anything its worse....cause it constantly on/off/on/off/on/off during that last 3 miles.

It helps around here with our driving and location. Will it save you money long-term? Likely not (but with 2 minute stop lights around here, it could save me money in the end)
Everyone is totally missing the point of it.
My wife loves it on her GC - she's had it on at least two of them now. Her MPG is always higher when she leaves it on. A lot? No. But some.
It wasn't made to save you big money on fuel.

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[MR GRANITE]

1000 miles on Mojave with stock MT’s. 19.5 mpg with about 50/50 highway city driving. About 1 mpg less than my JLUR got with 2.0 turbo

 

[MrZappo]

You totally miss the point of it.
When your city or municipality mandates no idling - you'll see one reason for it. I guess you missed my posts containing only one of many many dozens of such laws I found in a PDF file. Mostly buses and diesel vehicles now, but a couple of cities include GAS POWERED CARS now, too.

You also don't live in California...........

Actually no, I'm pretty well informed on the subject.

This is politicians setting unrealistic Mpg requirements and engineers finding a way to eek our 1 percent more Mpg across their entire fleet at the expense of the consumer so they can minimize the carbon penalties they need to pay.

As far as idleing laws, that is a a new one and will be a long time before I ever see it.

As far as California, very few things there make any sense and I'll certainly never have my personal car with me there.

In any event, it is a solution in search of a problem that will have little to no positive impact on the environment no matter what the marketing folks paint.

 

[rafaelsmith]

You also don't live in California...........

Thank god!!

 

[PsyRN]

As someone who loves living in California (not many other places where you can go from the ocean to 10k feet elevation in a few hours, and every state as jacked up policies depending on your perspective), there are no laws about idling. you can idle all day if you want. sounds like there are some misconceptions out there.

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