Question:
a site to calculate gas usage on trip?
squirrellchica
2007-04-25 11:17:56 UTC
Does anybody know of a site that helps calculate how much gas u would use in a trip? Ill be driving an 03 ford focus and a 14' uhaul trailer to alabama from new mexico trying to get all my figures together thanx in advance
Six answers:
american_muscle_101
2007-04-25 11:33:27 UTC
Ok, your going to get lower mile per gallon when driving that car with a trailer, it wasn't built to haul trailers. It really depends on how heavy the trailer will be, make sure you load the trailer to have the larger portion of the weight resting on the axle, and there is substantialy more weight in fron of the axle than behind. This way, you will not be putting ht full weight of your stuff on the rear of your car, and you will have the trailer carrying most of the weight, you just pull it. If you have to much on the rear end, it will want to pull up and off the hitch, just be careful. Don't use overdrive, use Drive, Overdrive is a gear and setting in your trans. that uses a lowe fluid flow to increase fuel economy, your fluid is what lubricates and cools the trans. I have seen people ruin a tranny on 1 trip because they hauled a trailer in overdrive.



Anyway, your question. Figure on 20 mpg. But you may not even get that depending on how much weight there is, how often you stop, what yout speed is, there are alot of variables.



Take the miles your trip is, divided by the average MPG you expect to get. That is aprox how many gallons you will need.



Albuquerque to Birmingham is about 1250 miles



1250 / 20 = 62.5 Gallons used



To be safe figure on 75 - 80 gallons



80 gallong at 3.00 a gallon (Safe guess)



$240 for gas, double chec everything beforehand, but this is a rough guess.
lepninja
2007-04-25 11:23:42 UTC
It wouldn't be possible to tell given the info you provided. A 14' uhaul filled with bricks is going to get worse gas mileage than one filled with feathers. If your 03 Focus has a dirty air filter it might reduce gas mileage. If you accelerate quickly it will reduce gas mileage. If it's windy outside, you may get worse gas mileage. There are way too many factors to than can affect gas consumption for a site to give accurate info.
51
2007-04-25 11:45:52 UTC
divide the miles traveled by the gallons used



how the h ell are we supposed to know what your mpg is?



buy a 5 dollar road atlas at walmart figure the distance and do some simple math
kollector
2007-04-25 11:50:22 UTC
Try using a pencil, paper and basic math skills to answer your question.
anonymous
2007-04-25 11:22:08 UTC
Dont know of a web site, but if you know what milage your car gets..... you could always get the miles from mapquest.com and divide by your milage to = gallons...
pardonmystupidty
2007-04-25 11:28:01 UTC
i belive the EPA has some info on those sorts of thing. i know one of the gov websites lists MPG


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