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Originally Posted by Jammer
If it was not for Fr3AkAzOiD making these posts I would likely figure my car had already maxed out all it will do on gas mileage. Now I think I can get a little more out of her.
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Thanks a lot!
I actualy took your advise and dropped a couple psi in my tires. At 60 degrees they run warm at 44 psi and at 80 degrees warm is 46 psi though 80 degrees was a bit of a freaky warm day for October.
Ran from Raleigh, NC to Bryson City, NC in the mountains driving between 65- 70 mph (about 330 miles each way) and around town quite a bit for a friends wedding. The Cobalt is not a good rally car, it was not happy climbing small mountain gravel roads but still round trip ended up with 45.625 mpg which is better then expected and Jammer if the roads I was driving are anything like the ones around your way then you should be very proud of your lifetime average.
Going down the side of a mountain highway at 75 mph with the engine off was a bit too much for even me so I mostly just keep it running but in neutral. Certainly were a lot more variables in that trip then my normal round trip to and from work.
Thanks everyone for your support and hopefully before this time next year I'll be making a post that I broke 60 mpg.
