Real life gas mileage 08 V6 or V8

[Patrick Cox]

Go to the following WEB site 4Runner Mileage . This is my actual MPG for a 2008 SR5 4Runner V8 through 25 Tanks of Fuel.
Bruce

Is this mainly highway driving or city? Also, do you feel there is anything special you are doing here? I am getting ready to purchase a 4-Runner and the V8 sticker shows something like 14 & 17 for mpg. How do you think you are achieving better than this? Usually it is the other way around.

Thanks.

 

[NJrunner11]

Go to the following WEB site 4Runner Mileage . This is my actual MPG for a 2008 SR5 4Runner V8 through 25 Tanks of Fuel.
Bruce

what kind of gas are you using? cause that is some pricey gas prices !!! im glad jersey is one of the lower priced states !

 

[ran]

Yes, I am still kind of new up north. My 18 MPG is on 10% ethanol.

 

[CAD-Man]

Is this mainly highway driving or city? Also, do you feel there is anything special you are doing here? I am getting ready to purchase a 4-Runner and the V8 sticker shows something like 14 & 17 for mpg. How do you think you are achieving better than this? Usually it is the other way around.

Thanks.

This is mostly highway mileage with the lower figures are my local town driving. We live at 7000 feet above sea level and this altitude causes the engine computer to lean out the fuel mixture and contributes to my high MPG figures. My 2004 Scion also get well above average fuel mileage as can be seen at this WEB site Scion MPG

Bruce

 

[CAD-Man]

what kind of gas are you using? cause that is some pricey gas prices !!! im glad jersey is one of the lower priced states !

Yep, our gas is high here. The gas stations claim it is all in the shipping costs,our town is at the end of the run for fuel delivery. The closest refinery is over 350 miles away and some times it has to come from 400 miles away. The prices you see on that WEB site has my $0.14 discount deducted from the price. Because my second job is working at one of the local station in town. So if you add 14 cents to the price I have there that is the actual price of the fuel. This is for 85 octane regular (Same as 87 Octane at sea level)

I drive 750 miles a week to my Main job In Jackson, Wyoming. And I work 2 days a week at the gas station to pay for the gas I burn during the week. I almost break even at the end of the week and that's driving a car that averages 40.2 MPG .

Bruce

 

[Bren583]

I have an 08 Urban Runner 4x4 V6, I average 25mpg, but I also do roughly 80% rural highway driving. Recently, we took a trip to our place in OBX (Outer Banks, NC), and I towed the waverunners down. The ski's are sitting on a double trailer, total weight of everything roughly 3200lbs. I got 22.5mpg average on the trip.

B

 

[RoarFunner]

I should count myself lucky. My computer only shows about 4% high.

So far, after only 800 miles on my wife's V6, we're getting about 18 mpg with ALL short, in-town trips. Our only highway trip was over a LOT of mountain passes and included a little offroading, and averaged 23 mpg, with lots of time around 75 mph.

Should still get a little better as the drive train breaks in more. No complaints here. Geez...her in-town mileage is better than my HEMI's highway mileage!!!

 

[hammersc]

I don't know how you guys are getting such good mileage. I have a 2wd '05 V6 (I purposely avoided the V8 and 4x4 for gas reasons since I'm not towing or offroading - bought it for reliability, space and resale). I baby the accelerator unless merging on an interstate, regular gasoline as recommended, and over 60k mi. (half and half city/hwy) I'm averaging 19.3. This is on flat SCarolina highways going about 75mph on an interstate trip, speed limit otherwise. RPMs never get above 2500, and it's gradual to that. I'm telling you, there's no way I could be getting better mileage as far as driving style goes. I truly thought that I was getting good mileage until reading this thread. My computer says I'm averaging 20.5, but it's about 6% less. With that said, for a truck style, midsize SUV, I'll gladly accept 19mpg for what it gives in return.

27 mpg in a 4 runner? No sale, unless they lowered the horsepower rating since '05 or something. I know consumer reports says they averaged 16 mpg in their tests, which seems low to me.

 

[Fumbler]

I have a 2003 SR5 4x4 V8 with around 75k miles.
I live less than 100' above sea level.

Around town, all city and short travel distances (less than 5 miles) I get 14mpg.

All interstate highway I get around 20 mpg.

All country roads at 60-65mph I can get as much as 21-22 mpg.

A couple weekends ago I went camping. Climbing dirt roads up and down mountains I got around 18mpg. I think that's pretty good.
My 4Runner does a heck of a lot better than my 2000 Tundra. That truck would do 11mpg city and 14-15 mpg highway (same engine).

 

[Benjamin Choi]

2003 V8 4x4... mixed use avg about 16-7 mpg

 

[ExJeeper]

Well, filled up the 4Runner for the first time. Truck said 22.9 and my calculations put it at 20.3. Reset it, drove 35 miles on hwy and it was reading 26.7! Only 425 miles on motor so Im thinking I will be getting 20mpg at least on a regular basis. For a truck this size, I think that is outstanding!

 

[dcrogers11]

I just installed a 5000 lb hitch my V6 Urban Runner and pulled my 19' Robalo center console with no problem. Mileage for the trip averaged 12.8 mpg. The boat and equipment will weigh in around 4500 lbs. My piece of junk Ford 6.0 SD gets 13 mpg to do the same. I bought the UR because I couldn't depend on the Ford anymore. Would advice that the trailer have working brakes on the trailer. I have the ones that actuate of the trailer hitch.

 

[Light_Mania]

With mixed highway/city driving, and really being conscious of lights, braking and coasting, I can get a real 20 mpg in the summer with my '06 V6.

At constant 65 mph on the highway, in the summer, with no wind influence, it will do almost 21 mpg.

As for my trip computer, it is consistently 10% optimistic on average mpg when compared to the odometer/tank fill. On the other hand my odometer is 2% pessimistic, which would mean my trip computer is really only 8% optimistic. Just so its perfectly clear.....

 

[CZ75]

2006 V8 w/18k on the motor. 2.5" lift w/Donahoe CO front and hoe springs and shocks rear, 265/65/17 stock tires, SW sliders, front hitch, Volant CAI and Gibson exhaust. Oh yeah, and one new windshield wiper.
Everything else stock.

I was getting 17 with the CAI only. Added the Gibson catback and it went up to about 17.5. Then I stopped using the Lucas gas additive and it jumped up to 18.8 on my last tank.

I milk the gas for mileage and most of my commute is a backed up freeway. I got 20 on my trip back from Tahoe and that was before the Gibson and I was using the Lucas additive.

 

[Wingnut1993]

LOTS of variables to overall mileage, but-DRAG!!!

One of the variaibles I don't see discussed much that is HUGE for highway driving is DRAG...which engineers can verify but I'm quite sure increases as a FACTOR of speed. I have a built '06 V8 SE. Full protection front bumper (Shrockworks), 3" lift on 33" Nitto G2s (A/T), a small Rhino rack attached to the stock (Tube) roof rack with a jack and some lower profile stuff up there for longer highway transits (VA-CO/UT), Safari snorkel, DT Shorty headers with cats and a Flowmaster cat back (stock Y-pipe). I recently drove to/fr UT and ended up with a combined mileage over 5800mi of about 15.7. I tracked mileage closely on the transits to/fr and found that WIND was a HUGE factor! A 20mph headwind at 75mph indicated is creating the drag of 95mph!! mileage was terrible. 14ish. I picked up a tailwind of over 20mph going West through KS and was showing/calculating as much as 22mpg at 75mph. Terrain (ups/downs) and driving technique (manual mostly with use of Cruise only when there were no big uphiils that would get the car to shift to 4k RPM to maintain speed) were comparable. This was on 85-87 Oct pump gas. The combined figure included a LOT of off road driving in between the 2k mi transits. Very little idling (I shut down when I stop). A lot of gravel road and rough tertiary roads and fair amount of loaded 4x4 roads doing 5 mph. I think this is a typical "overland" type trip. I also found that driving a "throttle position" vs a constant speed (like a semi driver) on rolling hills kept the RPMs down (yet annoyed my fellow driver - I didnt do this with traffic). Ultimately, if there is 1 way to increase mileage, it is to REDUCE DRAG!