Re: Poor Gas Mileage on an L300? Group: rec.autos.makers.saturn Date: Thu, Apr 29, 2004, 7:40pm (PDT+7) From: snipped-for-privacy@lala.la (Blah=A0blah) In article , WGRG3 @webtv.net says... I am pretty sure I got the mileage calculations right I always subtract the miles from my present fill up to my previous fill up, and divide that by the number of gallons I got. I think that is the way to do it right? Of course I can't do it exact like 1667.6 because for some reason this gauge rounds off to the nearest mile. So I only get something like
1667 or 1668. And I always use reg gas, so that is not a factor. Some weeks I can get 19-20 miles to the gallon, and other weeks I only get around 18. I know the AC and Heater can eat up a lot of gas! So when do you think all of this should level off, and I can get some consistantly good gas mileage out of this car? Thanks! =A0=A0 Doesnt your trip gage show 10th's of a mile? Not that you need to be that accurate. The ac doesnt eat up as much these days and it only runs when you are defrosting the windsheild with the heat on. You got to remember that the epa rates everything on a treadmill. Only lil ol' ladies get close to the epa ratings. You might be a lead foot like most of us. If 1600 is your current mileage i say you have some ways to go before everything is broken in. Try not to push it to hard until you're next oil change. I cant remember if saturn puts synthetic in from the factory now but if they do it will take longer for the rings to seat.
----------------------------------------------------------- No it has a digital read out now, and it only reads in whole numbers. So it is pretty hard to get an acurate reading, as far as gas mileage goes! My old 96 SL2 had the regular gage, and I got great gas mileage on that car. Maybe this car being a V6 just sucks up more gas. I hope you are right about getting better mileage after it breaks in. I do not think I will ever get used to 18-19 MPG! Thanks