Xtreme4U2NV

2007 2.4L SS, 83,000KM's
only mod is a CAI

So, since day one I would randomly follow the ECON on the DIC. I know its not the most accurate, but gives me a general idea. Mix of city and highway, it would hover around 9.0L/100KM.

On a 3.4 hour trek to the cottage, I would sometimes get as low as 8.4L/100KM. SO it would drop like 0.1 every half hour to 45 minutes. Like that since we owned it.

Today I got in the car, it was 9.1, drove an hour, went down to 8.9. Dropped 0.2 in one hour, a LITTLE unusually quick of a drop.

Well, coming home from my friends place, when I got in, it was still sitting at 8.9. In an hour driving home, it dropped to 7.0!!! That's a drop of 1.9, which is an INSANELY high drop. Before today, to have it drop 1.9L/100KM, at an average of 45 minutes to drop 0.1, it should have taken 14.25 hours of straight highway to get it to drop to 7.0.

Like I said, in 5 years of owning this car, never has it dropped like it did in this past hour.

Has anyone ever encountered this? If so, should I be concerned?

Sox-Fan

iTrader: (7)

Who knows? You haven't told us average speed, load, weather, quality of gas, or really anything with which to help you.

Xtreme4U2NV

Avg speed en route was 100KM/H
Load is wife and I, so maybe 310 pounds between us
Fuel over the last 5 years varies from 89 to 94 depending on how much money I have in my pocket. But this issues fuel was 89
Weather was overcast

But when I say that in the past 5 years, it would take an average of 45 minutes to drop 0.1 on the read out, to recall 5 years worth of weather would be impossible and pointless. So to say todays weather would almost be pointless because its not like the car was only driven in clear sunny day weather for 5 years, then today it acts up only because it was overcast.

If it helps, I am in Ontario, Canada. So it's not like I was driving over the mountains in British Columbia or anything where altitude would effect anything.