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Old 07-18-2010, 02:01 AM   #1 (permalink)
Danncomm
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Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: Iowa
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blue sipper - '06 Honda Insight
90 day: 85.96 mpg (US)

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90 day: 24.82 mpg (US)
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Air conditioner really kills mileage

I had the air conditioning fixed in the slug yesterday. About time, temp was in the mid 90's and the humidity was in the low 80% range. Up until I had the ac fixed I was running 90 mpg for 370 miles. I had to do about 80 miles for work and ran the air, by the time I got home it was 82.4 mpg for 450 miles. I knew that ac hurt mileage but the ac combined with my little engine made my poor car even worse as far as pulling power goes, I was driving with little to no wind and would compare it to driving into a 20mpg headwind.

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