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DONT PUT THE CHEAP GAS IN IT, you're going to clog up the injectors and cause more problems for yourself!!!

 

Gotcha... Thanks for all the help guys. One more question. How do i reset the mpg on my computer thing by the steering wheel? I just wanna reset it to see what the ecu says. Also i havent gotten my intakes cleaned out for a while could that be the case? its been due but its too expenseive

 

How do you afford the car then? ^ sounds like ur tight as hell on money lol

 

My dad used to pay for it. Then i turned 18. FML

 

You have absolutely no idea what kind of mileage you're getting. I asked how you are figuring your mileage and you say that you put $5 or $10 worth if gas in and you feel it's not lasting as long as it used to??? You need to actually use math and figure out your actual mileage. Here's how.

Fill your tank up completely. Reset one of your trip odometers. Drive until it's time to fill up your tank again. Refill your tank completely again. Note exactly how many gallons it takes to refill it. Divide the actual number of miles on your trip odometer by the actual number of gallons you just put in your tank. That is your mileage. Don't go by how many days it took you to burn up $10 worth of gas or how many miles you think you're getting. Don't go by the car's computer because it's never completely accurate. Do it like I just said. That's the ONLY way to know for certain what your lineage is, miles travelled/fuel consumption.

 

I don't do any highway driving and maintain a 22-24 MPG.. I don't know how I do it and I drive pretty hard in the morning to school sometimes because I wake up late and I can't be late to school or I won't be exempt :/ .. $20 usually lasts me like 3 and a half days I would say lol

 

Thanks so much for all the help man. Ill make sure i do that and see what happens

 

We all may have different "perceptions" of how easy we drive and how we should be getting better mileage than we are, but the actual mileage you are getting is the cold hard reality. In addition to normal everyday short trips, I drive a lot of highway trips frequently from Houston to New Orleans or to San Antonio. I'm one of those nerds who always measures mileage.

Do you have any idea how big a difference in gas mileage just a little bit of freeway traffic makes in a 250 mile trip? How big a difference in mileage setting your cruise control makes vs. holding it at the same speed manually? How big a difference in mileage traveling at 75 makes over traveling at 70 or 65 does? I do. A hell of a lot more than most of us think. I can take a trip to San Antonio and get about 27 mpg. I can return home by the same route and drive not much differently (in my mind) and get 23.7 mpg. It doesn't take a lot to bring it down.

 

haha this thread is full of ghey

 

thread title fail ... OP, you're a perfect candidate for a Civic

 

If you can't afford the gas, what happens when you need new tires? Regular maintenance? Out of warranty work (next year, most likely).

You should check out how much a decent set of tires costs

 

lmao im a daily city driver i pray for your 14 mpg i get 10-12 usually 10 tho (9 when i drive hard)

 

Hopefully you got the information you needed to figure out what's going on. This thread is going downhill faster than an avalanche. LOCK IT UP!