How do you check your own mpg?

Question

How do you track your own MPG? What is your stretegy?

Like how much miles do I get on one fill up. I know they have estimates, but how do you measure your own mpg?

can you make it a bit more simple? i'm not none edumacation and it's hard for a redneck to understand. please ... english.. southern english. pops taught me to hunt, and make love, but nothing about cars, he passed..

Answer 1

I fill up the gas tank while at the same time resseting the trip-meter to zero. When I fill up the tank again I divide the miles driven by the gallons.

Answer 2

The easiest way is to reduce the error by using a full tank.
Go to a gas station and use a specific pump. Fill the tank and note exactly what you do - trip the handle one extra time, etc. so the cut off fuel level is some specific distance down the pipe. Record the miles on the odometer.
Now drive around for a while, the more miles the better. If you have to buy gas away from that pump, note the amount and the cost and price.
Go back to the first pump and fill it the same way and again note the miles, amount, cost, and price. If the pump only gives the gallons to a tenth, then use the price and cost to get more exact gallons.
Subtract the first miles from the finish and divide by all the gallons used and that gives you miles per gallon.

Answer 3

what i do is i make sure that I have the tank as empty as possible and than go fill up at the gas station. I see how many gallons were put in and then I reset my trip meter. I drive until the gas is again as empty as possible without being stranded on the side of the road. Than i see how many miles i was able to get on my trip meter and divide that by the gallons that I put in. My Camry gives me about 25.6 mpg

Answer 4

Determine how many gallons your tank holds. Fill 'er up. Drive until you have half a tank and see how far you got. Multiply that figure by two and divide by the number of gallons your tank holds. Repeat the procedure a few times and average those numbers together... and you'll have a pretty close-to-accurate result based on a broad sample of different driving environments, including various uphill and downhill grades. It's important to base your readings on everyday driving and not on a single short sample.

Answer 5

Right down the miles on the 1st fill-up and when you fill up next time figure out how much you have driven and divide by how many gallons to fill

Answer 6

The next time you get gas, fill it up, and write down your mileage(A), and how may gallons you put in the car.

The next time you get gas, do the same thing, fill it up, write the gallons down it took (E), and record the mileage (B)

take B - A = X then take X / B = mile per gallon


I'm a Long Haul Trucker and this is my formula for mpg.

here's a handy link, takes he guess work out of the equation -

Answer 7

Fill your car up at point A drive to point B and fill up again . Check your miles and gallons. Divide your gallons into the miles run. Or you could just fill up and run all week until it needs gas again then do it.

Answer 8

Simple, fill up your tank and mark down your milage. Then the next time you fill up divide your milage from your last fill up till this one by the number of gallons it took to refill your tank. That will give you your mpg.

Answer 9

fill your tank up all the way and reset your trip meter. when you go to fill up get the ammount of gallons of the pump that it took to fill it all the way back up. divide that into the number of miles. you dont have to go all the way to empty. this will give you and average of what you are using.

Answer 10

put it on trip after I fill up. When it gets close to empty, fill it up again, note the trip mileage and divide by the gallons of gasoline I just purchased.