Hours vs miles

[MarkP]

I was just wondering what the average miles per engine hour is. I was reading the manual on my new to me 06 and seen the hour meter info. My truck has 34000 miles and 1030 hours on it, this averages 33 miles per hour. Does it more than likely indiacate my truck was primarily used in town or for local stuff. Wouldnt the hours be lower for an over the road trailer hauler. I sometimes look at my gps average speed and I am usually surprised at how slow it is. I am trying to learn all I can about the history of my truck.

 

[Bekim]

You're right in there. The average most people posted in past threads on miles/engine hour were in the 30-40 range with a few above 40.
Mike
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[zippinbye]

How do you pull up the hours? Mine is a 2004. 5, but the manuals are early 2004, could not find reference to hour logging. That would be useful information.



My LS 430 has an avg. mph tally on a mulitifunction odometer display. MPG directly correlates to avg. speed. Around town it seems to hang around 28 mph per tank, which is around 18. 2 mpg. Mix in some freeway and it gets closer to 40 and mpg is always better than 20. A sustained 75 mph 250 mile trip assures 25 mpg or better. Another neat feture is that the mpg has two counters, one for by the tank, and an overall mpg that can be reset, or left for a lifetime if you wish. Best of all, Toyota has figured out how to get the accuarcy dead-on. Differences from hand calculation are rare, and then its a tenth or two, basically well within top-off technique variances. Not that my rice burning sedan has a place here, but the point is this is very useful information to have, especially if reliable. In this day of cheap microchips, threre's no reason most vehicles should not have similar functions. How about multiple driver seat/mirror/steering wheel position memory fuctions too!

 

[JVolpe]

To display the hours on the Odometer display you make sure the OD mileage is showing. Turn key to on, don't start. Push and hold down the trip button for 5-10 seconds. hrs xxxx will display on Odometer readout.

 

[sabersix]

Mine is averaging 36. 9 miles per engine hour (18231 miles and 494 hours).

I drive about 40 miles mixed highway/city to work. Also take the truck on family road trips. I'd estimate 60/40 hwy/city. I'm getting 15. 9 MPG overall average (calculated). Low is 13. 4 MPG (first tank) and high 18. 6 MPG.

 

[AWay]

Mine is 36. 2 mi/hrs. 33930 miles, 938 hrs. Mixed highway and city driving.