Awful MPG on a new 5th Gen

[JNorth]

I just bought a 2018 SR5 Premium and I have 230 miles on it. I am doing a 160 mile trip this evening heading up north (more northern MN). 30 miles will be city and traffic once out of that it should be about 70 miles cruising at 65+ and the final 60 will be 55+ plus roads. This vehicle isn't broken in obviously but I am going to see what type of read out I get for this frequent trip I make. I can report back.

UPDATE.

160 mile trip-- first 30 miles with traffic leaving the city i got 19 MPG. 70 miles at 72 MPH i got 19.6 MPG, 60 miles at 60 MPH i got it up to 20.5. Trip finished with 20.7 MPG

 

[engineeer]

I drove up to the mountains and back this weekend. 371 miles round trip (half uphill and half downhill) and I averaged 17.8mpg round trip. The climb/descent portion was between 55-65mph and the freeway portion was 20-60mph on the way up (lots of traffic) and 70-80mph on the way down. Lots of flooring it to pass people in both directions as well.

2017 TRDP with just under 15,000 miles + 485lb of extra weight (tires, armor, drawers, etc.). Fuel economy definitely improves after 10k miles or so.

City mileage is rather bad lately. I tracked 5 days of commuting to work, which was purely city driving mostly between 40-55mph and averaged 11.7mpg over 36 total miles.

 

[HurricanePaul]

I've been getting 15 to 16mpg (95% city 5% hwy). I just hit 1080miles. Tires are at 32psi Dunlop.

A few times I reset the mpg display and drove onto hwy and got 21mpg though.

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[2012sr5]

Wow- lots of good responses here and I'm wicked glad that I am not the only one. 12.7 mpg as of this morning according to the dashboard as of this morning in about 20 degrees in Boston.

I have a remote starter installed and always have it running for about 10 min before heading to work, which has helped a little bit. I have seen it even lower than 12 mpg if just doing a cold start.

I knew I hated winters up here, but didn't think they'd hurt my wallet this much.. lol

I know it has been several months, but this may be helpful for someone...

It might suck to do this up north in the winter, but you're supposed to start the 4Runner and drive it immediately. Letting it sit there idling to warm up is harder on your engine than if it warmed up while driving, and it runs a richer mixture of fuel for longer than if you'd just start it up and start driving. This lends to your terrible fuel economy.

You're not just idling, you're idling at an extremely rich mixture and not moving at all. You're getting 0 mpg for those 10-20 minutes you let it warm up.

 

[OrlandoSZ]

Im at 33k and get 18.5 with orlando traffic.


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[lukeskywalker]

Around 16.

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Ur doing something wrong.