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Old 01-30-2010, 05:44 PM   #71 (permalink)
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stop and go/rain

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Originally Posted by ccrider View Post
i finished my first tank with the aero cap and i cant catch a break with the weather after the monsoon rain i drove through last weekend on my 200 mile trip i did a good amount of city stop and go driving and my tank average was 27.74 mpg. which is a little better than what i have been recording in my fuel log for the last few tanks but considering the extreme conditions i guess my results are good. now this weekend i made my 200 mile weekend trip, the temp was 10 degrees when i arrived and it was night driving, my scan gauge read 27.9 mpg at the end of the trip.

one of these days the weather will break and i think i will get the substantial increase in mpg that i would like to see

maybe in the warmer weather i will try a A B A test. the only thing is my truck is a base truck and does not have cruise control. so would i be wasting my time doing an A B A test?
cc,I just duplicated a 613-mile run I attempted last year which was frustrated by 330-miles of rain.
This time I had dry road the whole way and saw a difference of 36 mpg vs 31.8 for the wet conditions last year.
The stop and go will also severely cut into mpg.It can be 1/2 your HWY mpg!

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