How many MPB (miles per bar)? - Toyota Yaris Forums

otterhere · 02-10-2009, 12:08 PM

80 miles on the first bar? Highway or city? Dang; I thought I was doing well with 60... Now I'm depressed again...

PreciousPups4U · 02-10-2009, 12:48 PM

Same here close to 75 - 80 on the first bar. Then somewhere between 40 - 50 on the rest of the bars. Three bars is about half the tank and then the other five bars are the last half of the tank or at least that's how it seems to work for me.

Mine is pretty much all city driving.

PreciousPups4U · 02-10-2009, 12:49 PM

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Originally Posted by otterhere

80 miles on the first bar? Highway or city? Dang; I thought I was doing well with 60... Now I'm depressed again...

Yours is still pretty new. Give it some time. Depends on lots of things, too. Like terrain and how close traffic lights are together and such.

Havana · 02-10-2009, 02:07 PM

I hate those bars. I've gotten over 90 miles on the first bar and as little as 15 on the second to last bar. To me, it's almost useless as a fuel gauge. How can it show around 300 miles travelled at "half a tank" and only get around 85 more miles from the other "half." Answer: 50% of the bars gone does not indicate half a tank used or left. All that gauge tells is that I have some gas more or less.

smacky · 02-10-2009, 04:20 PM

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Originally Posted by otterhere

80 miles on the first bar? Highway or city? Dang; I thought I was doing well with 60... Now I'm depressed again...

I'm usually driving about 75% highway, that helps a lot. But my first bar is sometomes around 65 miles but my scangauge doesn't reflect FE that's too much lower. The bars are not accurate. Get a scangauge if you can, I think it's money well spent.

1stToyota · 02-10-2009, 05:47 PM

It's about as accurate as it can be, seeing that it's pretty hard to find a car with a perfectly square tank...maybe a '69 Chevelle with a fuel cell mounted in the trunk.

I can usually go 100 miles before I hit 7/8ths, about 300 miles before I hit 3/8ths.

otterhere · 02-10-2009, 06:00 PM

Seems you should be able to do the math: first bar's mileage times 7 (bars) divided by 10 (gallon tank), but that doesn't work, or I'm just bad at math.

1stToyota · 02-10-2009, 06:55 PM

Or Toyota isn't going to get excited enough about the Yaris fuel tank and dash cluster to factor in float drop vs tank shape? When it's full I know I got a long ways to go, when I'm down to 1/4 I start huntin for gas pumps.

02-10-2009, 12:48 PM	#2
PreciousPups4U I really LOVE this car!!! View User's Garage Drives: 08 Bayou Blue LB AT Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Lexington, SC USA Posts: 887	Same here close to 75 - 80 on the first bar. Then somewhere between 40 - 50 on the rest of the bars. Three bars is about half the tank and then the other five bars are the last half of the tank or at least that's how it seems to work for me. Mine is pretty much all city driving. __________________ Cindy “If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.” - Will Rogers

02-10-2009, 05:47 PM	#6
1stToyota Drives: 2013 Chevy Spark 1LT 5-speed Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Oklahoma Posts: 1,185	It's about as accurate as it can be, seeing that it's pretty hard to find a car with a perfectly square tank...maybe a '69 Chevelle with a fuel cell mounted in the trunk. I can usually go 100 miles before I hit 7/8ths, about 300 miles before I hit 3/8ths. __________________ 1997 Lincoln Town Car - *SOLD* 2008 Scion xD (w/ automatic) - SOLD 2008 Yaris HB - SOLD

02-10-2009, 06:55 PM	#8
1stToyota Drives: 2013 Chevy Spark 1LT 5-speed Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Oklahoma Posts: 1,185	Or Toyota isn't going to get excited enough about the Yaris fuel tank and dash cluster to factor in float drop vs tank shape? When it's full I know I got a long ways to go, when I'm down to 1/4 I start huntin for gas pumps. __________________ 1997 Lincoln Town Car - *SOLD* 2008 Scion xD (w/ automatic) - SOLD 2008 Yaris HB - SOLD

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02-10-2009, 12:08 PM	#1
otterhere Drives: 2008 Yaris 3-door Meteorite Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Southeast Posts: 398	80 miles on the first bar? Highway or city? Dang; I thought I was doing well with 60... Now I'm depressed again...

02-10-2009, 02:07 PM	#4
Havana Drives: 2009 Yaris 3 door M/T Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: South Carolina Posts: 56	I hate those bars. I've gotten over 90 miles on the first bar and as little as 15 on the second to last bar. To me, it's almost useless as a fuel gauge. How can it show around 300 miles travelled at "half a tank" and only get around 85 more miles from the other "half." Answer: 50% of the bars gone does not indicate half a tank used or left. All that gauge tells is that I have some gas more or less.

02-10-2009, 06:00 PM	#7
otterhere Drives: 2008 Yaris 3-door Meteorite Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Southeast Posts: 398	Seems you should be able to do the math: first bar's mileage times 7 (bars) divided by 10 (gallon tank), but that doesn't work, or I'm just bad at math.