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Old 02-04-2007, 11:29 AM
Bigsk8r Bigsk8r is offline
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Default Re: What the..... 17.7 Gallons?!?!?

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Originally Posted by tnsig View Post
What did your consumption screen display for your MPG? Was is close or the same?
The display was right at 30.3 (both of them). Having said that though, there are a couple of things to take into account.

I filled up at the same Shell station that I get 80% of my gas from. However, I did not have my "usual" pump. The pump I went to allowed me to put much more fuel in the car than I ever have before. In fact, I caught it just before it ran out of the pipe.

On the return trip from Detroit to Cincy, I was running 72 miles per hour with a 40 MPH (gusts higher) side wind. I had the wheel 10 - 20 degrees turned right just to stay on the road! The mileage of the tank is not what concerns me.

What concerns me is putting 17.8 gallons in. I would have expected if the car were bone dry to be able to do the 17.2 in the tank and another 0.3 - 0.4 in the filler pipe. Because of condensation and sediment, the pickup is not on the exact bottom of the tank and the car was running when I got there, so there had to be at least 0.2 - 0.3 in the tank.

The filler pipe must be huge!

THOSE OF YOU IN COLD CLIMATES.... please chime in on this: How is your mileage when the temp is under 40F and you are going over 60 miles per hour?

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