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 It was hit by a drunk driver and that's all she wrote. Everyone is ok, glad for the air bags :)

Cmax officially totaled by insurance company yesterday.

Goodbye CMax, hello 2014 Focust ST.

Are you happy with the black contrasted against the White Platinum?  I have Oxford White, and there is a big jump in price for the matching color.  I really wasn't looking for them to stand out, but it looks okay in your pics.  Would you post a pic or two showing your C-MAX from enough distance to see?

 

In my case, a shorter burn would be required to climb 3% inclines on my way home from work.  Even a little more tq would go a long way.  Only a side by side hill comparison with a double blind hyper-miler vs standard driver would really show the difference.

By top edge, do to mean the front edge of the hatch?  I set them up based on the front edge of the "lip".  I must have misinterpreted the advice from the other thread.  I will re-align them before I leave today.  Thanks for the tip.

Yes, magnetic :)

Thanks for the compliment on appearance.  I am on the "black-out" theme and enjoy the contrast.

~Aerohance Gaspods

I only jumped on because I have the worst time trying to get good HWY mpg.  Yes, it is a gamble, but I made a couple extra bucks this months, so I figured wth?  Why not?  If they don't work, I will still be using them in a stylized capacity, lol.

Sweet!, looks familiar the way you positioned the Pods.  I truly feel they are enhancing my performance, I hope you feel the same way?  All this week I've been driving very conservatively and over as level roads as I can find in Northern California.  I've seen my numbers rise from 42.1 to just today I hit 45.0.  I find that even on the freeway my numbers stay consistent.  Back in the summer when it was much warmer, that wasn't true.  As long as I can keep in the mid forties I will be overly happy.  We'll see what happens when old man winter really hits the area next month and into January.

I will be installing mine today.  I feel the same way about old man winter :(

That is just SICK Jus.  Great job!

Well folks, it looks like my goal of 700+ is done for the season :(  The weather has cooled off rapidly over the last week.  Fall has certainly arrived in Baltimore.  Hoping for a new best tank with about 200 miles to go, but I fear I will likely fall short with these 45 degree mornings and 50 degree evenings.  Oh well, there is always next year :rockon:

I always thought that Ford thought it was a good idea to discharge the batteries before re-loading them again.  Truthfully, though, I have no idea why.

 

My car is less than 2 months old, so the 13B07 was done at the dealer before I bought it.  Curious if these things are new with the upgrade?  ...or always been there? 

 

1) car stays in negative split mode through first half of its warm-up cycle.  (it would be nice to charge the battery during this time the ICE is running, rather than producing unneeded extra HP , but there must be reason it does this? Makes for faster warm up cycle?)  

 

2) When looking at the "Empower" display mode, and the car switches from ICE to EV, the display stays white for 5 sec. or so even though it seems the ICE has stopped and it's switched to EV mode.  Can be confusing when trying to feather the right foot for minimum ICE.  Seems to happen more in the first few miles of a trip.

 

On #1

I think some of us refer to this as "battery run down".  ptjones is probably right with the "why" part of it.  When I leave my house in the morning, I have to climb a big hill right off the bat.  It is a 30 mph road with people routinely speeding down the hill from my left at 45-50 mph, so that extra hp comes in useful for me some days.  Without it, my daily mpg avg would certainly dive if my cold ICE engine had to do all the work.

Thanks Paul.  I'll keep cruising to the last drop.  600 or bust

Play it safe with the gas can, if you must, in order to do it safely. :)

Well I think except for the die-hard hypermilers a vast number of owners just want to enjoy their CMax for what it is and not bust their butt trying to eck! out higher numbers just for the recognition and saying they did it.  Bragging rights aren't important to these folks, it is what it is.  I know until I started reading threads from Jus-A-CMax and other big hypermilers that it wasn't a big focus for me.  But now I just want to get into the 600+ club and my present tank of gas is my best change of doing that.  I've been a 500+ owner many times over.  Time to move up although I don't think I will ever grace the halls of the 700 or 800mile range, just too much work to achieve.  I'm giving it all I've got to just make 600+

That is what I didn't get.  I wasn't trying for anything spectacular and I was getting 500 miles out of every tank, easily.  I pulled it off the dealer's lot, at that point, my MTE was showing 450 miles.  I filled it up (since my dealer did not).  I then was reading MTE at 525.  So, in the 243 "test driven" miles before I drove my car off the lot, those non-purchasers still seemed to be putting down ok numbers in relation to this forum.  This is why I didn't understand how 500 miles was not attainable by everyone.  Honestly, if I am not mistaken, there are a few gas only cars with a range of 400+, so my thought was we can all do better than that easy in a hybrid.

To the folks who don't focus on things that give you extra miles in a hybrid, why would you buy a hybrid in the first place, if not to save money on gas?  The environment?  Sure, that is valid, but for that a p-zero emissions car would be just as practical.

MY reason for switching from a gas car to a hybrid had nothing to do with the environment, in the traditional sense.  MY reason was all about saving gas money.  I was spending $225 month on gas.  This broke down to 200+/- miles per tank at 14 gal fill-ups, once a week costing $55-$60 per fill.  Now I go 550-660 miles in a tank, and only spend $45 once every 3.5 weeks.  It truly PAYS to play this "game" ;)

I assume that you have planned some kind of pass-thru arrangement rather than terminating in the LOC and losing your rear speakers, and that you've verified that the fuse rating on that rear 12V line can handle the draw of your amp. If so, sounds reasonable to me!...but I'm not a car audio professional.

 

All this sub talk has me thinking, I'm wondering if I should try an underseat sub, or a low-profile down-firing sub in the cargo area, or leave well enough alone. There are a bunch of disadvantages to an underseat sub but one big advantage: there's probably no potential time alignment problem. (The Bit Ten can compensate for that using manual settings, but again I'm no professional.)

The link I provided shows a RCA bass out and a RCA main out.  If piggy-backing the rear speakers cut them off, or otherwise destroys volume and/or quality, I was going to reattach the rear speakers using the main RCA outs and a RCA to speaker converter.  As for the amp, it uses a 7.5 amp fuse, pretty low, and the amp is only 90w RMS, so power should well clear the 150w limit on the 12v socket.

As soon as Uncle Sam makes good on my amended tax return, I think I am going to try playing with this setup.  Worst case scenario, I learn and share the experience, and eBay the parts to cut my losses, lol.

I have gone way OT.  I will PM you Jus ;)

All I am looking for is a signal to supply to an amped sub (like, but not a, Bazzoka tube).  I am not changing the original cabin speakers.

I was going to try this item:

http://www.crutchfield.com/p_161LC2I/AudioControl-LC2i.html?tp=2001#details-tab

As for the 12v power for the amp/sub, I was going to tap the rear 12v (always-on) plug in the trunk, using the remote wire on the LC-2i to control on/off operation of the amp/sub (similar to classic always-on direct battery connections).

Does this setup sound correct?  Have I thought this through wrong?

I miss old stereos.  It was so much easier when swapping out the HU was an option.

...the MPG up and downs continued today, 63.4 total for the day. Yesterday was 61.2. I also checked the tire pressure...they were at 39 psi. Obviously Galpin, as part of the service also checked the tires and -that- may explain my poor MPG lately. So I pumped them to 45psi this evening after letting the tires cool down in the evening. We shall see...fingers crossed.

Here in MD, I have to worry about icy and/ or snow covered roads when winter comes.  Uneven tire wear will greatly reduce traction come those winter months.

Aren't you concerned about tire wear and overall wet traction with the reduced tire footprint?  I won't say ice/ snow for you since you live in SoCal ;)

I have never pushed past 30 miles to empty.  Due to hills and traffic in my 90% city driving, I have never chosen to rely on any gauge in the car. Any steep hill, using a slow 1-bar burn because of the car in front of me could drop that  :airquote: smart gauge down 5-10 miles when I only travel 1-2 miles.  I rely most on the Trip 1 gal. used, then assume, that the gauge is about .5 to 1 gals off.  I throw the dice based on the actual gas meter.  Once the gas gauge stops bouncing back and forth between yellow and red (stabilizing in the red), I start watching my miles very closely.  Once my gas gauge flatlines, I start getting super cautious and consider every trip before making it.  Will there be a lot of uphill in my next trip?  Will I get a good chance of EV mode for the next trip?  How far are gas stations from my route, or destination?  All those factors help me decide how far to push it.  FWIW, I have never seen MINE read 0 miles.  I get such remarkably consistent mpg's for my daily driving that my smart gauges estimate my miles to empty fairly well near the end of the tank.

I am buying a 2 gal gas can to use on this tank.  I want to know what happens when MINE reaches 0, lol.

Did it all summer long:  short trips + hwy= sub 40's.  

Alrighty, that was a naive assumption on my part.

Is that called fueliy?  

 

Basically anything below 40mpg will not make it to a 500 mile tank (comfortably with room for error).  

Do we have anyone NOT making 500 miles?

Sorry mate...its now done! Well, you certainly are in the bad, bad, bad, bad books....so don't let Consumer Report get a hold of your CMax, it's not possible to have such high MPGs. What, you're making them out to be liars....or their testing done by kindergarden kids ;)

 

 

PS is this a ploy to stop just before SnowStorm on the Honor Roll....you guys got like 0.1 mile between the 2 of you.

lol, I wish I had the time to push it a little further, but my wife was at home with a panic attack, so being gingerly on the gas wasn't going to happen.  My next tank should be even better.  I am still aiming for that 700+ marker before winter arrives:)

Hey Jus, don't forget to update my new PB ;)