Ed Grizzo

Bought a new Honda civic. Drive it on far trips and rainy days. Leave doors and top off jeep. Drive it when it's not raining around town or wheeling.

Woodman506

My wife has a Camry hybrid (50mpg), I have the jeep lowbrid (16mpg), combined it averages out to a decent MPG

Vin

With all the trafic around you doing 65-70 mph it's hard for you not to float up to the 65-70 mph. At 60 mph I get dirty looks all the time.

Even at 65 mhp on average, I find my gas milage dropping to 16-17 mpg. At 70 it drops to 14-15 mpg range. The biggest killer of gas is traffic. I've done a week where I hit morning rush hour everyday and my milage dropped to the 14 mpg range.

myz28u

Dont let your jeep sit an idle. Stop going throygh drive thru's. Idling kills mileage.

Yankee

If I had more than a 30 mile round trip commute to work, I would not have a Wrangler for a daily driver, only for fun on the weekends.

MagnumD69

I had a trail remove my front air dam and I installed an AEV snorkel and I get about 18.3mpg in city driving.

It would be a hard sell to legitimize buying an additional vehicle that gets better mpg. Add to that monthly payment, insurance, taxes, and maintenance on an additional vehicle and it really gets expensive. You will most likely pay much less by just sticking with the lower-mpg Jeep than using an additional high-mpg vehicle to "save money".

Just plug all those numbers into a spreadsheet and do the math. I tell this to all my friends that want to buy $hybrid$.
It might work out to be less cash out of your pocket each month if you drive a lot! Don't just assume you'll save money.

Michiguy

I hate to jump into this and be a downer but man oh man I cannot stand those people who say things like "Its a Jeep, get used to 0x mpg" or "You are driving a box on wheels". Not that we should expect to get 40mpg or anything even close, but those comments are just not helpful.

We should expect to get somewhere near 17 to 20 mpg with reasonable driving. As for the OP, I have to agree with a lot of other people here. I recently was careful about the skinny pedal and now with each successive fill up, my mpg is getting better and better.

P1Rh0

My commute is 30 miles one way to work and if I want/need to go to town another 30 in the opposite direction. I've settled knowing I won't get that hybrid or even honda MPG numbers but I would like to get a little more than what I am now (about 15mpg).

I'm thinking about taking the spare off and keeping a tire repair kit in the Jeep. But I'm also wondering if a snorkel really does help that much to justify the cost.

Hook-Em

I'm running a Sahara JKU with 4" lift and 315/70R17 tires, auto transmission, and a Superchip programmer. I've just started a little experiment. Here is what I'm doing.

1. Run the Superchip in Mileage XS mode
2. Disabled OD (Is there a steering wheel dance for permanent OD disable?)
3. Permanently disable ESP (using the steering wheel dance)
4. Running topless with no A/C.
5. Using factory fluids until my free oil changes run out (4 left).
6. Light on the skinny pedal (Trying to maintain RPM's under 2500 at all cost)
7. Cut off engine at long stop lights or lights where I know the pattern
8. No idling in parking lots, drive thru's, etc.

I just started the experiment and have been running around 16-17 mpg with about 50/50 city highway. School will be out in June, so I hope the experiment will yield improvements up to 18-20 mpg or so. We'll see.

Battlefrog

Hahaha, thanx