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Originally Posted by SentraSE-R
When I did my WAI testing, I drove the same round-trip test loop on the same day with no traffic, using cruise control, using the same tire pressure. Temperatures and wind conditions were the same. Your tank to tank observations let all of those variables fly out (or in) the window.
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Thanks for this reply. I have been aware of these variables. I drive strictly the same speed, through the exact same traffic conditions, on the exact same 12 mile trip, round and round, until the tank is near empty (lot's of fun, huh?). I leave at a regular time and return at a regular time--I'm a rat on a tread mill! I live in Southern Cali, where temps range in the same ways day in and day out for weeks at a time. I have had a couple rainy days and one windy day and that is it for variation. So I take the point about controlling variables, and I do not claim to have fully controlled, but I think my conditions are quite a lot better than chaotically uncontrolled. Anyway, thanks, and I'll post further results with descriptions of conditions later, for the heck of it...