How To Get Good MPG Without Driving Yourself Insane
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From: August 07 COTM....NEBF '06, CEBF '06 OHMM '06 ONBF '07 CEBF '07
and make my car into a mobile bomb, I don't think so 
i think I can get by on NY gas, I'm going to make monthly drives back home to visit and so i can eat at my favorite Italian resturant.
i think I can get by on NY gas, I'm going to make monthly drives back home to visit and so i can eat at my favorite Italian resturant.
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you might think about changing out the 02 sensor on that as well...your mileage seems a little low to me, but then again thats just me.
im happy that i NEVER get below 20mpg no matter how hard i beat on her...but then again its not a 3800 either...of course i have longer stretches of cruising to even out the spurts of insanity.
im happy that i NEVER get below 20mpg no matter how hard i beat on her...but then again its not a 3800 either...of course i have longer stretches of cruising to even out the spurts of insanity.
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I've never been known to waste a lot of time getting up to (or just a touch above) the speed limit. Just dom't treet every stop light like it'* the tree at the track. And when you gotta stop, don't act like you're landing on the deck of an aircraft carrier (you know, like those folks that scream up to the light at 50 and try to stop at the last possible moment, like the light'* gonna change because it thinks thet're in a hurry).
And, when at all possible, maintain a steqady cruising speed. All the speeding up and slowing down to weave in and out of traffic just wastes gas.
And, when at all possible, maintain a steqady cruising speed. All the speeding up and slowing down to weave in and out of traffic just wastes gas.
I try to do the speed limit- note the operative word is TRY. I don't know of any other way to save on gas mileage other than use the cruise control (but that has it'* risks also).
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Originally Posted by MOS95B
I've never been known to waste a lot of time getting up to (or just a touch above) the speed limit. Just dom't treet every stop light like it'* the tree at the track. And when you gotta stop, don't act like you're landing on the deck of an aircraft carrier (you know, like those folks that scream up to the light at 50 and try to stop at the last possible moment, like the light'* gonna change because it thinks thet're in a hurry).
And, when at all possible, maintain a steqady cruising speed. All the speeding up and slowing down to weave in and out of traffic just wastes gas.
And, when at all possible, maintain a steqady cruising speed. All the speeding up and slowing down to weave in and out of traffic just wastes gas.
I try to do the speed limit- note the operative word is TRY. I don't know of any other way to save on gas mileage other than use the cruise control (but that has it'* risks also).
So bite me, woman!!!
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I typed it like that specifically for you hillbilly types....
So bite me, woman!!!
So bite me, woman!!!
And as for us "hillbilly types" it took one to point out that you can't type in English. BTW- I'm a yankee from Chicago. :P
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Yeah it'* two cold starts a day and I drive 12 miles one way and at speeds of 55-70 (illegally but shhh) and i can get 20-22 mpg. I guess from all your comments I realized that my car does pretty damn good on gas given its size, weight and the pure grunt the motor gives.
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Yeah it'* two cold starts a day and I drive 12 miles one way and at speeds of 55-70 (illegally but shhh) and i can get 20-22 mpg. I guess from all your comments I realized that my car does pretty damn good on gas given its size, weight and the pure grunt the motor gives.
GO BONNEVILLES!
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The 94-99 and possibly the 93 with a heated O2 Are a little diffrent in the way they enter Open loop...or is that closed loop
It could be cold and you could have just started the car.... But if you get to the right road speed, and say the PCM is seeing a signal from the heated O2, then say you are at 55 mph, even with a cold engine the PCM can command the TCC to apply.... In the 87-92 models, the engine had to be at 150F beofre the PCM / ECM would apply the lockup in the TC... That makes a diffrence in milage too..
So I do agree, you aren't doing too bad
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