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Old 11-18-2008, 09:25 PM   #677 (permalink)
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Blackfly - '98 Metro
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90 day: 67.07 mpg (US)

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90 day: 125.37 mpg (US)

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You kids and your hopped up 72v electric cars. Always breaking things with all that POWER! Sheesh.

Just a word of warning about towing the car: if you leave it in neutral, bungee the shift lever so there is absolutely NO way it can accidentally get into gear. As dubious as this sounds, I have heard of two motors destroyed by towing. And both owners claimed they left the shifter in N when they started the trip. You could pre-emptively put it in 5th gear, but then you're wearing the brushes/comm out for no reason.

When we towed the ForkenSwift to Ottawa, I put a bungee on the shift lever to hold it in N. Paranoid after those stories!
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