What is the procedure to find how many miles to the gallon a vehicle gets??
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First, fill your tank up to the first click on pump. Write down your mileage. Drive it for a few days. Then go fill tank again to first click on gas pump again. Write down your mileage then, and how many gallons you put in your tank. Then subtract how many miles you went. ( your new mileage from the old mileage) Then with a calculator divide miles that you went by the gallons you put in your tank. This will tell you a roughly how many miles you get to the gallon. Hope this helps.
If you want to know the actual MPG that your SUV gets, then fill the gas tank until the gas pump quits by itself. Then reset the trip mileage and drive the truck until you are low on gas. When you refill the tank, once again fill it until the pump automatically shuts off. Make a note of the gallons of gas that you have put in the tank. Take a reading of the mileage on the trip odometer. Divide the mileage by the number of gallons and that will give you the actual gas mileage that you are getting.
good luck.
good luck.
Fill up your tank.. and set your 'trip' odometer to '0'. If you don't have one... u should....then drive until it is needing refueling...usually down to a quarter of a tank then fill it completely again. Then check the mileage on the 'trip' odometer and divide that amount by the number of gallons you replaced filling it the second time.
If u don't have a 'trip' odometer, write down the standard odometer's reading... then subtract it from the reading you get when you fill it up the 2nd time.
If u don't have a 'trip' odometer, write down the standard odometer's reading... then subtract it from the reading you get when you fill it up the 2nd time.
johnaustin008
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i also follow the same way how skie check his cars mileage it is really the best way to find mileage and its the most accurate one..