Saturday, June 9, 2012

Oil Change and Tire Rotation.

76,312 miles.

Capitol Expressway Ford in San Jose.

The "oil life indicator" starts pinging a reminder at 10% oil life remaining. I meant to go in sooner but just wasn't able to fit it into the schedule. I ended up going in with 9% remaining, and I'm pretty sure it just goes by 10k miles as 100% because I had just over 9k miles on that oil, which is definitely the longest I've ever gone in any car without changing the oil.

Capitol Ford does a reasonable job for a decent price, and I like that they also rotate the tires. I had them hold off on that this time though because the rear tires are now quite worn while the front tires are still good. I'm waiting to replace all four and then will rotate them regularly to maintain uniform tread wear.

Everything else checked out great! Total cost was $46.54.

It looks like they have set my tire pressure back down to 35 PSI, so I'll need to boost it back up to 40 PSI to maintain the great MPG I've been getting lately.

Saturday, May 26, 2012

37.98 MPG


504.3MI, 13.278 GAL @ $4.199 = 37.98 MPG

75,852 total miles. Costco on Coleman.

Let's see how good the Costco gas is in the hybrid. I saw when pumping that it is "10% ethanol". I've never noticed a sign like that before, so I don't know if all gas is the same these days. But we'll see how it runs. MPG has been pretty good these days.

Wednesday, May 2, 2012

37.93 MPG

517.6MI, 13.645 GAL @ $4.099 = 37.93 MPG

75,347 total miles. Shell on Jacklin Road in Milpitas.

Friday, April 13, 2012

37.40 MPG

509.3mi, 13.619 gal @ $4.239 = 37.40MPG

74,830 total miles. 76 on Parkmoor Ave.

Sunday, April 1, 2012

35.61 MPG

399.9MI, 11.231 GAL @ $4.499 = 35.61 MPG

74,320 total miles. Chevron on Skyline Blvd.

Tuesday, March 20, 2012

35.71 MPG

461.9MI, 12.936 GAL @ $4.439 = 35.71 MPG

73,920 total miles. Chevron on Hamilton and Bascom in Campbell.

Saturday, March 10, 2012

34.87 MPG

485.5MI, 13.925 GAL @ $4.459 = 34.87 MPG

73,459 total miles. Chevron on Woodside Road off 280.

Wow, gas has really gotten expensive quickly!