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I always track my car's MPG with each tankful. Helps me drive more efficiently and safely. This practice has expanded to tracking my vehicle's overall cost to me, including gas, maintenance, and insurance.
Is anyone else tracking their mileage also? My wife says doing so is a "guy thing".....personally, I think it's a frugal thing.
I don't not worth modifying how I drive just to save a few cents.
I do. It's no trouble to push the button when I fill up. I guess it's not just a guy thing. I just like knowing. I drive too much and 55mpg makes me feel better about it.
In the summer I ride my motorcycle 99% of the time. I do it b/c I enjoy it more than for money saving. Heck I do so much crusiing around with no purpose I probably wind up burnign more gas/money than I save by riding a bike but I more than double my gas mileage of my car and I have a pretty fuel efficent car 4cyl accord.
Yes, I have tracked fuel mileage and maintenance expenses in every vehicle that I've owned--since 1971. Those detailed logs have saved me lots of money more than once when I got into a dispute over warranty stuff--I had concrete proof that I was maintaining the vehicle properly.
I like to do it and do it pretty regularly. My current car does automatically, but I still check it. I never top off the gas and use that measure against the miles driven.
I know this quite an old thread, but just yesterday I signed up on the Fuelly website to where I can keep track of my MPG for my '87 wagon. Since having replaced the fuel tank and all related components, I am eager to see if there are any improvements in the MPG. So far since the first fillup with the new tank at 16.9 gallons (which is surprising since I never got that much ever on the old tank, even when I had ran clean out it maxed at 15.8) I have 186 miles so far and needle is just about at the 3/4 mark.
However since the tank filled at 16.9 I subtract one for reserve purposes so I would consider 16 gallons as usable.
This will be interesting to see how I will do when I drive to Houston in two months for Thanksgiving....highest I have gotten with the old tank was 28mpg, so we'll see.
I track mine only on a yearly basis. Every Jan 1st I write down the mileage. At the end of the year I add up all the expenses for that year and the total miles driven. Then I calculate my cost per mile. I sorta keep that number in my head for the next year, realizing that it will probably cost me around $3.55 to drive to walmart for what ever. I does slow me down doing those short trips for only one or two things.
I don't track it per se... but I keep an eye on it to make sure that everything is okay. I have hybrids so it's sort of a game to see how high mpgs I can get.
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