9 months ago we bought this car used with 4000 miles (previously leased by a woman who drove only for errands around town). We have been watching the mileage and are getting at best 24 mpg combined city/highway. On a highway trip to Florida from Buffalo we got only got 27 mpg.This seems outrageously…

(1) Oversize tires will make your speedometer and odometer read low, so you would seem to be driving fewer miles per tank. Exactly how much would depend on the exact size difference, which I don’t know. You could go on a highway drive and count off some measured miles and compare it to your odomet…

Thank you for a quick response. I will check my odometer on the highway, since the oil was changed at purchase and 6 months later. Focuslady

You may be changing the oil correctly but what about the previous owner?

True . I just googled the EPA rating for 2007 Ford Focus and got 27/37 from Autoblog Green. There’s a discrepancy!

If that car went only 4K miles in its first several years then it should have been maintained according to a “severe” service schedule (lots of short trips). Personally, I’d rather buy a 4 yr old car with 40K on it than a 4 yr old car with 4K on it. Anyway, it probably wasn’t maintained on a “seve…

Use http://www.fueleconomy.gov/ The government changed their method to make it more realistic, and the web site has the new-method numbers for older cars as well. (See this note on autoblog as well.) You get 27 vs an expected 31 for your automatic, that’s a 13% loss. You probably would have noti…

Check for a dragging brake. Cruise on the highway for a few miles, then coast down and stop using the brakes as little as possible. Feel the wheels. If one is hotter than the others that one’s probably dragging. Get the wheel alignment checked, and of course tire pressure.

Thanks. I’ve copied these suggestions and will take them to my service manager (at my dealer) and see about the full round of maintenance. They may have access as well to the maintenance schedule of the lessee, but I’ll bet this very low mileage is the culprit. I usually drive a car into the ground …

We have been watching the mileage and are getting at best 24 mpg If you are watching an onboard meter that indicates the current MPG, please remember that they are generally not very accurate. To find out how accurate it is with you driving, you need to compare a few tank fulls and comparing the…

2007 Ford Focus with horrible mileage

Maintenance/Repairs

kizwiki September 24, 2010, 1:19am 11

I can think of a few things, an oil change, an air filter change, proper tire pressure. A tune up.

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