So I put my truck through the test to try and figure out her true gas mileage these days. Here's what I've come up with.
This is when I filled her up on the first of March. It took almost $33 (What I usually pay more or less), or almost 17 gallons of octane 93 out of a 23 gallon tank. I reset the trip odometer to zero as seen here.
Today, the seventh of March, I had to make a trip to the gas station again, since I had a quarter tank left. The trip odometer reading is seen here. I didn't have the camera with me today, but it came out to $33 even, or a little over 17 gallons at the pump (probably 17.010).
So if my math is right, the jeep having consumed about 17 gallons of gas over 198.8 miles worth of city driving, she rates roughly about 11.6 MPG. I guess that's not that off from the rated 15 MPG that Chrysler gives for my jeep, but still kinda sucks for a six cylinder engine rated for 185 hp at 4600 rpm.
I'm sure an engine with 113k miles on it like mine is prone to lose compression, and so it'll probably lose some of it's response and burn gas less efficiently. How do I help improve that?
This is when I filled her up on the first of March. It took almost $33 (What I usually pay more or less), or almost 17 gallons of octane 93 out of a 23 gallon tank. I reset the trip odometer to zero as seen here.
Today, the seventh of March, I had to make a trip to the gas station again, since I had a quarter tank left. The trip odometer reading is seen here. I didn't have the camera with me today, but it came out to $33 even, or a little over 17 gallons at the pump (probably 17.010).
So if my math is right, the jeep having consumed about 17 gallons of gas over 198.8 miles worth of city driving, she rates roughly about 11.6 MPG. I guess that's not that off from the rated 15 MPG that Chrysler gives for my jeep, but still kinda sucks for a six cylinder engine rated for 185 hp at 4600 rpm.
I'm sure an engine with 113k miles on it like mine is prone to lose compression, and so it'll probably lose some of it's response and burn gas less efficiently. How do I help improve that?