I've owned my Accord for a year and 42k miles and have been reading this and other forums daily all along. Finally joined! I've been running the stock Hankook Kinergy tires that my LX came with for the first 42k and have been getting AMAZING fuel economy. I drive around 150 miles per day almost all highway varying speed limits about 50% 60 mph and 50% 70 mph. For the whole first set of tires I could maintain 40 mpg without even thinking about it, actually better when not in ECON mode. If I concentrated on my driving i could easily have a 45 MPG tank average. Now that I have my new tires, Firestone Firehawk AS, my fuel economy has plummeted. I have put about 1000 miles on the new tires and have averaged 35 mpg on each of the two tanks of gas, and it has been a hard fight to keep it that high! I'm not really complaining as i'm still above the city/highway combination my window sticker showed by a good bit. I'm more surprised at how much this set of tires has dropped my economy. Has anyone else experienced this sort of 10%-20%+ change in economy at a tire change?
Just for reference, my car has always achieved the best mileage with Murphy USA walmart gas 87 octane and I have run it almost exclusively because its $1.47/gallon locally!
2019 Accord LX 1.5 CVT
Just a food for though post for everyone. Thank you to everyone for all the good advice over the last year even though you didn't know I was lurking!
Just for reference, my car has always achieved the best mileage with Murphy USA walmart gas 87 octane and I have run it almost exclusively because its $1.47/gallon locally!
2019 Accord LX 1.5 CVT
Just a food for though post for everyone. Thank you to everyone for all the good advice over the last year even though you didn't know I was lurking!