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Originally Posted by bondvagabond
My cousin has an old willy's wagon that he always puts tall narrow tires on for fitment reasons.
It says on your tagline that you only get 18.23mpg's out of your samurai, are you running in 4x4 a lot? I know from my experience with using hypermiling techniques in old toyota 4x4's that I could get about 15% over epa stock, I hope I could do this with the samurai too. Have you tried any driving tricks with yours? do you have super low gears in it or anything?
You are the only sammy owner on hear so your info would be super valuable to me.
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18ish is the average. My last couple tanks have been even worse. I have a webber carb with no heat, so I get a bit of icing when the temp and humidity are right. It is cold winter now (10-15 below F) So some is idling just to get the thing warmed up enough to move under it's own power, and all is 4x4 right now. All my driving out here is short trips so I never really get to get it up to temp. In the summer I consistently see 20mpg. Only one paved road out here the rest is muddy dirt road so plenty of drag when any moisture is on the ground. With the samurai I had before I did a lot better. A warmer climate similar to western Oregon with an earlier model (taller 5th gear) and slimmer tires I consistently got 22-24 mpg driving spiritedly.