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Originally Posted by RoboMike
Here's my neurons firing:
Idling - Jeeps; especially Wranglers, will lose more gas Idling than traveling at 80MPH. I remember being on a date, and the car was on idle as we spoke. I kid you not . .. you can watch the gas gauge go to zero quickly.
<What I will start doing next week> Turning off of the engine to prevent Idling at red lights (especially those lights that I know take forever).
Soft tops are bad - Soft tops actually act like kites or drag chutes. Just think of a tent being blown around in the wind; not to mention they are loud (Loss of hearing occurs over 70 MPH).
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I have to disagree with some of this.
First, it's not possible for the engine to burn gas at a faster rate when at idle than at 80 mph. If the injectors were dumping more fuel in at idle than the thing would be running insanely rich. For me 4 hours @ 60 mph = empty tank. I've been on wheelin trips (rock crawling) where my Jeep has run 8-9 hours in a day and hardly used 1/4 tank.
Like someone else said, sailcloth. I had both a hard and soft top, saw zero differnce in mpg between them. I'd also say the soft top was no louder until around 65-70 mph.
Anyway, now back to your regularly schedualed thread....