Agreed!
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General update... I'm really getting a kick out of this car. My family rents a cottage each summer for a few weeks, and it's about 35 km away. So I've been driving more than usual lately, getting seat time in the U.F.O. It's fun to just cruise along the country roads, driving with load (DWL) and feathering the throttle to hold lean burn as much as possible.
I have the dashboard units set to Miles/Gals because the instant fuel consumption display has more resolution than L/100 km, especially when you're playing with 100 mpg as a cruising target. Better feedback.
I'm driving slightly faster than I would in the Flea, and still seeing ~15-20% better fuel economy on the dash display. (Anyone care to comment on how optimistic that display is vs. actual fill calculations -- I'm
assuming it's probably optimistic).
I stuck a bottle of fuel injector cleaner in the tank today (hope I do not now find out it's bad for something...).
Minor gripes with the car:
- the auto-stop "bug" mentioned a few posts back
- no door map pockets (think I've heard jamesqf mention this before)
- the seat-back release for both seats is inboard. Dumb! Why do they want us to have to lean way inside the car to flip the seat-back?
- lousy radio reception
- there is still sometimes a 2 second delay between turning the key to "start" before the computer will fire the 12v starter (you have to turn the key and wait). I haven't figured out a pattern for when/why this happens, vs. when it spins up nearly as soon as the key is turned).