fladdamS2K

Wow, I guess I was lucky or must drive like an old lady, but I've always gotten about 280 out of a tank in my car before the fuel light pops on and if I push it, I can get a nudge over 300 miles from a tank. The most I ever got out of a tank in the S was a total highway trip and that was 330 miles. That's with a couple runs of the gears in VTEC too.

In contrast, my beater consistently gets 450+ miles a tank and the most I got out of a tank was 494 miles. I've seen 35 mpg out of the Accord before...not bad for 210K miles. I usually average 31-33 mpg in mixed.

zdave87

If you are filling up with E85, you will lose miles per tank. I *think* I read in Car&Driver or Road&Track that the use of E85 will, on average, result in a drop of 10-15% in fuel economy.

FF2Skip

There is only one station that offers E85 near DC. I doubt he, or anyone on here, got gas from there. It's on a military base that allows civilians to purchase the E85 only... again, because it's the only source of it. I know this because I looked into buying a new truck that could run on E85.

Now, E85 does have a good side. If you crank up the compression really high(13:1 or better), supposedly you can get some good power numbers, but alas, mileage will take a big hit.


But nevermind all that, I don't know anything.

zdave87

My mistake, I was thinking of the ethanol blended gas (10%) that is at most gas stations.

Thanks for the correction

Anwalt

Actually, just had the same problem with my last tank, range went from around 300 miles to 200 miles.

LagunaBlu2k

I just filled up today and when i went to hit the reset it read 241.3 and thats with no bars left but i hit VTEC atleast twice a day and thats a mix of highway and city miles

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