Yep, on the way home from San Diego this afternoon, I hit the valley floor and saw the OBC rise to 104 degrees, old-school. Its getting warm, baby! And this at 5.45pm, glad I wasn’t here mid-afternoon.
I filled up with gas when I left work and despite terrible traffic on I-15, SR-52, and I-8 the OBC was indicating 29.7 mpg for a very long time. I’ve not seen that high before in Carrie over any distance. Unfortunately I had to put the a/c on (or die) and by the time I got home it was down to 29.0 but that’s still a record for me over 130 miles of driving. An hour in stop-start traffic, and then another 90 mnutes pretty much at 80.
I’m glad I don’t live where you are. It’s too hot for me at 20 Celsius which would be 68 on your scale. 🙂
I guess you get used to the heat though just as were used to cooler temperatures here.
You’ll get much better doing 65-70 instead of 80 – but you might not enjoy it so much!
I gotta say I have never got anywhere near that kind of mileage. I get around 24, if the wife is in the car on a trip over 130 miles and she drives allot but generally I get 22. Of course my right foot is probably to blame. Oh yeah I have a ’04 MCS.
When I drove my daughters car from Boston to LA it got 29-30 but it is a Cooper.
The above MPG’ are not from the OBC but my calculations as I never find the OBC to be accurate, ever.
I have put my right foot on a diet of late with gas prices as they are but I have been seeing a slight drop this last week.
I’ll take the warmer weather any day. I’m sick of this June Gloom we are having here in LA in May. HELP!
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The OBC on my ’02 was wildly inaccurate, this one is much better usually only 1-1.5 mpg optimistic. I usually get the calculator out to work out the actual after I fill up.
Ian, I’ve found that doing 80 consistently gives me better mileage than 70 or 75. My experiment may be flawed but that’s what I’ve observed. Doing 65 on a CA freeway simply isn’t possible if you want to live 🙂
Even at 75-80 your being run over by the SUVPACK! I find 80+ is safe.