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Old 08-11-2004, 04:05 PM
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Hi All:

___Just one more reason why I fill from almost dry to max is so I don’t have to waste my time nor burn up a few ounces of fuel just to drive to the station and back or stop and start from 0 miles per hour with a slightly colder ICE after the fill up. When I run extremely low near work, there is a BP only about 1 mile out of my way so that one isn’t so bad. When I run low at home, it is ~ 10 miles roundtrip of wasted effort just to fill the little beauty up. God knows I wouldn’t want to waste any fuel like driving around the state a few times for no ungodly reason

___I also know within .1 to .2 mpg what my actual is other then when I fill the vapor recovery HW. Then I have to wait until I burn off that tank to average with the previous for an accurate fuel economy reading. Filling up at 2 to 4 gallon intervals will never tell how you are doing on that last tank in the least. You will eventually get an accurate lmpg but what about tank over tank? They would be all over the place if you didn’t fill her up. An example is if I placed just 4 gallon in her now after 1147 miles. That is over 250 mpg which is absolutely meaningless as you can well imagine.

___Good Luck

___Wayne R. Gerdes
___Hunt Club Farms Landscaping Ltd.
___Waynegerdes@earthlink.net

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