you have almost the same exact miles I do. anyway, great MPG! I hope to get that on my CC trip.

 

What did you mean about the high/low pitched noise? We have a noise on the driver side, sounds like something flapping, around 70 mph, not sure if its the Fender Well...cause it seems loose. Anyone else experience this?

 

I've seen as low as 8.2 L per 100KM's on a roughly 500 KM trip doing about 110KMH. I'm not sure how that translates into MPG's, but it wasn't far off the 7.0L/100KM's I was averaging with my 2014 Acura ILX with an inline four. Pretty darn good for a naturally aspirated V6 moving a 4500 pound truck if you ask me.

 

Happy for you, my friend.

I'm taking off on a road trip tomorrow from the SF Bay Area to So Cal. I'll be thrilled if I can get anywhere close to 25 mpg (calculated) on my AWD. Normally, I'm only in the 14-16 mpg range on my short trips.

 

Unless you get into some stop and go traffic you will exceed your expectation. Best for me on the interstate was 29.1 mpg from Christensburg to Fairfax, VA (~220 miles). Averaged 70-75 mph and run tires at 38 psi cold. Typical long interstate trips I get ~26-27 mpg while driving at 5 mph above posted speed limit.

 

Is your truck AWD?

 

In 3 hrs you only went 64.8 miles?

Great mileage regardless, even if it was for 65 miles.

 

I got 99mpg once for 1/2 mile.

 

I drove 221 miles one way (4 hrs) with full tank (19.5 gallons) computer said I got 26mpg's. Fuel meter showed I had 1/4 tank left. So that means I used 8.5 gallons of fuel. shouldn't my fuel gauge show 1/2 tank? or did I get 11-13 mpg's? lol

I forgot to note down what my fill up was. Drove back home the same distance and arrived home with 1/4 tank left. Fueling up later this week. I think the 1/4 mark is not accurate. My 2005 Civic would to this. The fuel light would come on at 1/4 tank but it still had 4.5-5 gallons left (13.2 gallon tank)

 

Were you going downhill most of the way?
Other threads are saying members were also using calculators that showed more fuel used than what the Ridge mpg calculations were showing....or was this VW?

 

My Ridge has 1100 miles. I manually calculated fuel usages after each fill ups. My calculated MPGs were exactly same as Ridge's displayed MPG.

If yours is off, you can do manual calibration to retrain Ridge's computer (at least my RTL-E has the function).

 

The trip was from Tampa Bay to Tallahassee -60 degrees. Florida is obviously mostly flat driving with occasional slight grade changes. Got 31.5 mpg on the way back -50 degrees going a bit faster. I've been getting 22mpg in town on average driving like I stole it and my trip "B" 10,000 miles plus avg is 23mpg overall.

 

Your VCM must be working overtime.

 

I notice that my gas milage seems to be getting better as the mileage gets higher. Less than 10000 miles average 24-27, now at 12500 and is getting 28-31 MPG going thru the mountains of NY.

 

In my experience the truck's mpg computation is a bit generous by about ~2 mpg. I've checked the result manually only a couple times and came up with lower numbers than what the dash was claiming. Often the truck claims in the 22-23 mpg range and my calculator says about 21 mpg. Not a big deal - Car and Driver had a blurb recently that most car mpg calculators err on the high side. I didn't buy the RL for the mpg.

 

According to fuelly.com: Based on data from 203 vehicles, 6,635 fuel-ups and 1,910,443 miles of driving, the 2017 Honda Ridgeline gets a combined Avg MPG of 20.54 with a 0.08 MPG margin of error.

So please allow me to also exaggerate a bit, your numbers are twice the national average mpg for this vehicle. Does it have a hidden flux capacitor?

 

My fuel tanked since late December. With all the cold starts and the $hit gas, letting it sit to warm up for 5mins. Im lucky if I get 12 mpgs on any trip long or short. Just being honest and it could get worse with highs in the - digits, that why in the winter months all fuel estimates for me go out the door in the northern climates. Carry on............G1 ownerrrrrrr.........Im in the garage and its +5, is the computer wo%*i(g. did you get the mess#g*.

 

this last tank mixed driving 50/50 city/interstate=29.3 mpg avg

Trip "B" 4,739.7 miles mostly city driving= 23.9 mpg avg

I drive very smooth, have front wheel drive, keep my tire pressure 38psi, that's my recipe for good mpg!

No tricks- sorry haters:act027:

 

dash reading are only calculated ( on average...on a period of time/distance..etc.)

You want accurate readings??..you gotta do the manual calculations ! :nerd:
So ALL dash readings are just for humor purposes ! :grin:>

~~~With that said...here's mine ! ( reset at every fill up.) :grin:
http://www.ridgelineownersclub.com/forums/2659858-post27.html

 

My manual calculations match my dash readout. Some people's may be off by 2mpg optimistic but mine has proven very accurate. The city mpg on this truck is better than most trucks but nothing stellar by most cars standards. The highway mpg is fantastic! The VCM may bother some but for me I don't even notice it-just get good mpg.

 

So..somehow you have a truck that is getting wayyyy better mileage than the specs given by the manufacturer ??

We're not talking a small number here...we're talking 30% + increased here !

Honda listed 26 MPG HWY and you're getting 35 ?..accurate claimed also by manual calculations ??

You do realized how ridiculous that sounds, right ? :|

Better call Honda or Fox news... and cash in your 15 min. of fame ! :grin:

 

He forgot to mention that he was being towed!!

 

internet haters........always negative , I have picture proof, I didn't photo shop my dash numbers, it's possible to get better or worse mpg than the manufacturer city/hwy avg, some highway road trips I've gotten 28mpg, some 30mpg, a few times 32mpg, this time was better, one time I got as low as 19mpg city on a tank, it varies, I live in a warm temp flat geographical place and have front wheel drive=all factors giving me better mpg than many others, you probably don't believe aliens are a possibility either

 

I think the biggest strike against the accuracy of your mileage claims is that you didn't manually calculate your mileage. You do claim that your computer is 100% accurate but the wisdom of the forum is against you there.

I do have no doubt that a 2wd Ridge driven in a warm climate on flat ground could well beat the advertised highway mileage. Are you using ethanol free gas as well?

Why not post again with actual calculated MPG and let us know?

 

"Why not post again with actual calculated MPG and let us know?"

Make that hand calculated (to the trailing 3 decimal points) over many thousands of miles, not over a 1/4 stretch of downhill coasting (after getting up to speed).

 

I have hand calculated my actual mileage so many times I lost count. Each time it matches my dash display. I've stated this several times. (miles driven divided by gallons added equals real mpg) It's not rocket science. Choose to believe what you will. I was just sharing my pleasant surprise with great mpg on this one particular road trip.

 

I believe you. My AWD Pilot had 31 mpg drives after break-in. I expect my Ridge E gets better mpg after break-in.

From your profile photo, it looks like you drove your RTS on a beach. How's the FWD handle the sand situation?

 

These are not haters, they are fellow owners. We all like it for what it is, the RL needs no hype.
And we all know (from experience) that your numbers are exaggerated beyond the point of belief.

Label those results as 'brief peaks' and they'd be believable; just not when presented as averages.

Todays fuelly.com: Based on data from 203 vehicles, 6,668 fuel-ups and 1,919,252 miles of driving, the 2017 Honda Ridgeline gets a combined Avg MPG of 20.53 with a 0.08 MPG margin of error. That's another 35 tank fulls averaged in (over just the past two days).

 

Real world numbers
My 2006 got 18.6 mpg avg over 53,000 miles hand calculated.
My 2008 got 16.1 mpg over 88,000 miles hand calculated. Had Michelin A/Ts on it for 30,000 of those miles which reduced mpg by 1-2 mpg.
My 2017 E with 12,000 is getting 22.8 avg based on 3 3,000 mile computer calculations so most likely very close to the fuelly numbers Wrascal just quoted.

Quieter, faster, additional safety features and way better mileage.......winner!

 

My point is that the dash mpg estimate in my truck is usually very accurate within 1mpg consistently. Anytime I've hand calculated it when refueling it's usually dead on. I never claimed 35mpg all the time over the entire life of all of my miles combined, only one time on a highway road trip. Here are my hand calculations on my shorter 60.3 mile trip today in mixed 50/50 city/hwy driving-dash estimated 26.7mpg- 2.165 gals added until the pump shut off full tank. Hand calculated at 27.8mpg= accurate within 1mpg. dash readout was 1mpg conservative.

 

In this specific example it was off by 1.1mpg, so as has been previously stated, it's not accurate, nothing personal @hygieneboy but you just proved everyone's point. If it was 0.1mpg, sure I would call it acceptable, but still not accurate. If you are happy with your vehicle then that's all that really matters.

 

For accuracy you need to track many consecutive tank fulls - not a 60 mile coast down the road.

Once again fuelly.com makes this tracking very easy.

 

off by only 1mpg and that's "not accurate" ------tough crowd

 

Plus it was one mile conservative instead of over as has been brought up again and again.