18 MPG highway?

[hiramhonda]

sjlee,

We live in the surburbs of ATlanta, GA (long way to most everything, but we don't drive in bumper to bumper traffic very often any more). For the first couple of years we had this Pilot, my wife drove it back and forth to work everyday (about 30 miles round trip which accounts for a lot of the miles) plus most of our other family driving and trips. She retired 2 1/2 years ago and we still drive 300 or so miles around the area per week and we've done several long trips in that time.

But, also, I bought the Pilot new in August 2002, so we've had it 4 years and 10 months, approximately.

I looked at Edmunds yesterday and it gave a number for an individual selling it at between $ 15 - 16 k.....does that sound about right to anyone. You don't see many with over 100k miles. It's been taken care of with frequent oil changes, 2 transmission services, several (don't have records at hand) diff services, etc.

[sjlee]

Originally posted by hiramhonda
I looked at Edmunds yesterday and it gave a number for an individual selling it at between $ 15 - 16 k.....does that sound about right to anyone. You don't see many with over 100k miles. It's been taken care of with frequent oil changes, 2 transmission services, several (don't have records at hand) diff services, etc.

That sounds about right for a 2003 Pilot LX with about 62k miles ("typical" according to Kelly's Blue Book). The reason you don't see many Pilots with over 100k miles is because 2003 is the first year for the Pilot. That means you would have to average about 25k miles a year.

[GreenMachine]

I went on another trip to Orlando last weekend. I went 382 miles on 18.2 gallons, which is right at 21mpg. About 15% of those miles were done in town, and I had the A/C on the entire tank. It is June in Florida after all. Oh, Vtec also got a few workouts merging onto the highways. When I was on the highway, my Scangauge II routinely fluctuated between about 21 to 24mpg at around 72mph. I decided to get in behind a tractor-trailer to see if drafting helped the fuel economy any. I saw the instant mpg go up and stay between 26 and 28mpg at about 72mph. I did this for about a mile, and got tired of looking at the back of a truck.

Overall, I am still very happy with the fuel economy of such a large, very safe SUV.

[CMasten]

Just got back from AZ from So Cal visting friends. I wanted to see what kind of mileage I got off the new cross terrains over the stock GYs. The last trip I took to Sonora up through central CA got me about 24 mpg at 70/75mph with 2 adults, 2 kids and LOTS of "stuff" . This trip was just the 2 kids and myself as my wife is on a trip with her mom.

I tried to keep to the 75 mph through the desert between CA and AZ... but it was too booring and too hot, so kept it up around 80-85 most of the way with the AC on. I got almost exactly 20.5 mpg on the way out and just about the same on the way back. I think the tires had a little to do with it, but probably lost a few mpg kicking it up from 75 to 80/85.

Over all not too bad for an SUV of this size and it handled very well, this is a great vehicle for trips! It also has no problems running up some pretty steep hills with a full load and the AC on at 80mph, the VTEC is a great motor.