The Nissan Path

I was getting about 17, until recently i put a snowboard rack on and am now getting 14.5 or so... :/ (with boards mileage is even worse)

I seem to average around 18.5. I have reset for long trips and can get slightly higher, but not much. It doesn't seem to show much variation between highway and around town mileage.

A 15% decrease due to a snowboard rack sounds high. Does it have a wind screen that is providing a significant amount of wind resistance?

We get 18.X around town. Conservative driving bumps it to 19.X.

I'm averaging about 17.1 around town. But on freeway I'm getting over 20. But I also have the Volant Intake in. I'm hoping once I put my exhaust on I will get a little more.

On long, flat highway trips (to the beach) with cruise control, my V8 gets about 18. With the basket and fairing I get about 16.5 on the same trip.

Mine is pretty bad, and I've been trying 93 gas recently.

I get about 15.3 in town and 16.4 on highway. I am not a lead foot, brake pretty early. Max speed on highway is 75 MPH.

All is stock with General Grabber AW tires, which I think were from the factory since I will be getting new tires.

Any ideas why I'm low??

I went through this with another car a while back. Here are some things to check:

- General tune of your engine – plugs, type of oil, O2 sensors, exhaust, etc.
- Mechanical resistance – sticking calipers, old diff grease, trans fluid, etc.
- Tires (as you mentioned, the types of tires you have make a difference as does the inflation)
- How much stuff you have in your trunk
- Excessive idling
- Altitude – Do you live on the top of Mount Everest? If so, your gas mileage is going to suck.

I've compared gas types on mine, doing the same trip on Premium vs Regular and I didn't measure any discernible difference. I do generally fill up with Premium because I'm "that guy."

jhg120 wrote:Mine is pretty bad, and I've been trying 93 gas recently.

I get about 15.3 in town and 16.4 on highway. I am not a lead foot, brake pretty early. Max speed on highway is 75 MPH.

Any ideas why I'm low??

When you say "highway" is that long trips of only highway driving, or just some highway mixed in here and there?

jhg120 wrote:Mine is pretty bad, and I've been trying 93 gas recently.

I get about 15.3 in town and 16.4 on highway. I am not a lead foot, brake pretty early. Max speed on highway is 75 MPH.

All is stock with General Grabber AW tires, which I think were from the factory since I will be getting new tires.

Any ideas why I'm low??

16.4 highway? Something doesn't sound right. As skinny asked, is this all highway? My realtime gauge indicates ~22 at 75 MPH.

I wonder if something is wrong with my Pathfinder...

I am averaging 13.6MPG around town and the best I have gotten was 18.3MPG on the highway.

Here is my fuelly site:

http://www.fuelly.com/car/nissan/pathfi ... oda/290453

porksoda wrote:I wonder if something is wrong with my Pathfinder...

I am averaging 13.6MPG around town and the best I have gotten was 18.3MPG on the highway.

Here is my fuelly site:

http://www.fuelly.com/car/nissan/pathfi ... oda/290453

You've got some very heavy city use there. Only one instance does your highway use go above about 50% and that was an 80% highway run for only 92 miles. Depending upon what your "city" driving is like, yours doesn't look unreasonable. How does that compare to other vehicles you've owned?

My average floats around 18mpg for typical use which is less than 3 miles per day city and 50 miles of rural driving. If I get on the highway and drive for 300 miles I'll hit 20-21mpg.

AZ_Path wrote:

jhg120 wrote:Mine is pretty bad, and I've been trying 93 gas recently.

I get about 15.3 in town and 16.4 on highway. I am not a lead foot, brake pretty early. Max speed on highway is 75 MPH.

All is stock with General Grabber AW tires, which I think were from the factory since I will be getting new tires.

Any ideas why I'm low??

16.4 highway? Something doesn't sound right. As skinny asked, is this all highway? My realtime gauge indicates ~22 at 75 MPH.

...........the very same
actually, the SE does even better than this

Highway use is only 10 miles, then back to city driving. I guess I didn't think of it as several hundred miles of highway....so....

Truck is empty, no loaded weight. Oil is synthetic, change it myself with Mobil 1. Just changed front and rear diff and transfer case with synthetic.

So, I guess my average of 16.4 mpg is city driving, which I guess isn't tooooo bad.

Maybe I'll take a trip to the beach just to log the mpg.

jhg120 wrote: Maybe I'll take a trip to the beach just to log the mpg.

I can totally support that

When I commute with the PF to my one office, I basically drive 2 miles of 55mph highway, then 70 miles of 70mph highway, then 1 mile of city. I usually run more like 75mph and for a round trip I can easily average 20-21mpg. I've almost made three trips before I chickened out and refilled halfway back on the 3rd trip.

My commute is only a couple of miles, and then there's a bit of running around for errands or kid-related things, but I'll go weeks at a time without going more than 2 miles on the highway. Doing that I get about 15.

When I do highway driving then it's a long trip. Over Christmas was 3500 miles in two weeks, but all of that with 4 people, dog, and a Yakima box on top, about 3200 constant highway (~75-80) and the rest suburban or country roads - averaged 16.5. The box takes off 15% no matter what.

Wind makes a huge difference I find, even buffeting cross winds. I've driven with the load in the picture to the left and got 18 at 70+, then a few days later drove at the same speed into a 40-50 mph wind with no load and got 15. Don't have to deal with much cold weather down here but I'm sure that could affect things too.