Imagine what would happen in this thread if we get J300 instead of J250 in US.
Does anyone actually get the posted 22/24 mpg?
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I took my air dam off, I wonder if I should put it back on. I don't like the look of it, but I wonder if it really makes a difference.
The Car Care Nut recommends NOT to do that. He says to stop filling when the pump first clicks off. Otherwise, you risk getting gasoline into the charcoal canister. They are not cheap to replace.
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You crack me up!
Years ago (1980’s), my older sister took the air dam off of her little Saturn. It immediately started overheating.
I will trust the engineers at Toyota, who designed Miss Daisy WITH an air dam.
It would be nice if there was a "quick disconnect" set of fasteners for them so you could take them off when you're offroad and easily put them back on when you reach pavement. I forget they are there, I haven't hit one yet when I point my tire at a rock but eventually it's bound to happen.
Definitely experienced this over the weekend. 1958 with Falken AT4s driving from TBay, Canada to St. Cloud, MN through a snowstorm with a tailwind on the way down - 24.5 MPG. Driving back into a headwind (and snow of course) 18.5 MPG.
I never considered that..
I reset the Trip MPG computer and drove half city and half highway and got 22.5 .. I only have around 500 miles on my vehicle though ..
Did a Costco run today, got back at 24.4 mpg. I am still on the stock yokohamas @ 18”
I live at 7,200 elevation in Santa Fe and riding on brick like K03's at 40 psi which typically increase to 44 psi from road friction. I recently returned from a trip to Grand Junction, CO for a dog trial so a good bit of altitude and switchbacks and roughly 7 hours each way. Currently a little over 5400 miles on the odometer and average 19.1 mpg no matter what gas I use including 93 fuel with no ethanol. I do drive fast but the rpm's consistently under 2k except when driving upgrade which is frequent. I don't even think about gas consumption as it is what it is.
Bone stick 1958, I’m seeing 22-23 mpg on the “single trip” after I turn the car off
Drove to my archery club this past weekend and got 24.5 on the way back (didnt check on the way there). Usually if Im driving highway most of the time (usually going 65) I get 22-24.5 miles. Typically Im on the 23/24 end of that spectrum if no traffic and closer to 22 if there is. Thats using stock 20" yokahama's that came with it and 93 from BJ's. I'm sure with costco gas, id get another 1 or 2 mpg's.
My city driving kind of sucks and I normally get 18ish-19 mpg. I tend to have quite a bit of traffic on my way to work and rarely even get to drive 50 mph.
My city driving kind of sucks and I normally get 18ish-19 mpg. I tend to have quite a bit of traffic on my way to work and rarely even get to drive 50 mph.
^^^THIS^^^
I recently put my factory rack back in my ‘58 and I noticed a drop of 2-4 mpg.
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I would love to have the rack off for commuting but nobody has the drip molding right now to cover the space left by removing the rack mounting points.
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I would love to have the rack off for commuting but nobody has the drip molding right now to cover the space left by removing the rack mounting points.
I have learned the secret to getting over 24 MPG on the highway. I live in a hilly area so I was happy with 24.8 mpg on the hghway and if I was driving in some place flat, I think I could do even better than 25 MPG. I took the car out at night, on the freeway. I did this for about 3 weeks till I figured out how to consistantly get over 24 MPG. For anyone who wants to try what I am about to propose, please be safe, and do it when there are very fiew people on the road. To figure out how you should drive your landcruiser, first take it out at night, after 9 PM on a weekday to a nearby highway that should be mostly empty. Second, reset the gauge that has the MPG to zero. Next do not have the trip miles gaue up, this does nothing to teach you how to drive the car. Change the gauge in this video ( ) that has the trip miles to the one that has the Turbo BOOST (not electric boost showing batteries). Now start driving. Your goal is to drive without spinning up the turbo, or if you must to get to speed as quick as possible, and then lay off the boost. What you will see is when you glide- the whiteline on the mpg gauge goes to 60 mph(and your rpms will be 0), when you push gas, but do not activate the boost gage, you will be below the blue line or it may be above the blue line close to 30 if the battery kicked in. Now the important part, drive while trying to maintian spead and watch the turbo gauge- the goal is to not spool it up at all. Then drive and experiment with increasing speed to feel how the vehicle reacts when you jump up in speed (watch the spooler) and then level and maintian your speed....this will help you learn how your spooling and mpg is effected and its correlation to your actions. once you think you have it figured out, take it out the next night and try again and see iff you keep getting the same results. Like I said I am in a hilly area so that means 50% of the time I am going uphill, and 50% I am going down hill on the way back. In a flat place, I think you can do better than 24.8 mpg.
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The other day, we drove about 53 miles on mostly two lane highways from Cherokee county NC to the Tapoco Lodge for supper. Max speed was 55 mph, with lots of twisties where we had to slow down. I was kinda shocked at the MPG when we reached our destination..
Coming back to civilization we didn’t do as well as going to supper. ..
Go figure..
93 octane ethanol free BP fuel.
It was a nice dinner drive.
Coming back to civilization we didn’t do as well as going to supper. ..
Go figure..
93 octane ethanol free BP fuel.
It was a nice dinner drive.
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Get out of ECO mode, do normal, ECO for whatever reason usually gets worse mpg, that has been my experience.
