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Old Jun 2, 2006 | 04:58 PM
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Interesting gas mileage

I've been getting a consistent 9.2-9.3L/100km with a mix of fast, granny, city, and highway driving.

my oil was around 24% and i went to get it changed, and for the past 2 weeks ive had 8.4L/100kms!!!!!! with the lead foot and highway/city miles, with granny driving mixed into it as well!

what gives!!! is fresh oil the trick?
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Old Jun 2, 2006 | 05:01 PM
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Fresh oil does improve gas mileage, so I would say that was it
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Old Jun 2, 2006 | 05:02 PM
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Originally Posted by beerbaron105
I've been getting a consistent 9.2-9.3L/100km with a mix of fast, granny, city, and highway driving.

my oil was around 24% and i went to get it changed, and for the past 2 weeks ive had 8.4L/100kms!!!!!! with the lead foot and highway/city miles, with granny driving mixed into it as well!

what gives!!! is fresh oil the trick?
It's not unheard of to get a bit of a mileage boost after an oil change.
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Old Jun 2, 2006 | 05:03 PM
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40.7 mpg on a full tank with my 2.2l on old oil, my car is way underated at 25 city/ 34 highway, fresh oil helps i believe a mpg or 2
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Old Jun 2, 2006 | 05:24 PM
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can anyone convert 8.4L/100km to MPG?
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Old Jun 2, 2006 | 05:29 PM
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you got me there
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Old Jun 2, 2006 | 05:30 PM
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Originally Posted by beerbaron105
can anyone convert 8.4L/100km to MPG?
Why don't you use the DIC in your car to tell you MPG? I do it all the time.
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Old Jun 2, 2006 | 05:34 PM
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yea thats what i use only usually about 3 tenths off on a fillup
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Old Jun 2, 2006 | 05:38 PM
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Originally Posted by beerbaron105
can anyone convert 8.4L/100km to MPG?
I got 33.63
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Old Jun 2, 2006 | 05:40 PM
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Originally Posted by 06G5GT
Why don't you use the DIC in your car to tell you MPG? I do it all the time.
canada, if u know a way to change the conversion on the car DIC then let me know!!!!
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Old Jun 2, 2006 | 05:40 PM
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Originally Posted by Tomtwtwtw
I got 33.63
damnnnnnn, i like lol
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Old Jun 2, 2006 | 11:06 PM
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driving home tonight it went down another tick to 8.3L/100kms, just gets better lol
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Old Jun 2, 2006 | 11:14 PM
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google has built in calculator/converter

check it out
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Old Jun 3, 2006 | 01:57 AM
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Hold down your arrow and I button and it should cycle a screen that says " Metric " or English. Then just pick english... check the owners manual if you can't get it.
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Old Jun 3, 2006 | 09:44 AM
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Yeah, I'm sporting the nice 18.3 mpg
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Old Jun 3, 2006 | 10:07 AM
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I did about a 150km round trip this week and got 30mpg. I was averaging 75mph though. The milage seems to go up as the cars age.
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