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Old 07-28-2013, 10:16 AM   #11 (permalink)
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Blackfly - '98 Geo Metro
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Last 3: 70.09 mpg (US)

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90 day: 52.71 mpg (US)

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90 day: 70.75 mpg (US)

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1) If you're serious about saving fuel, you need better feedback than the fuel gauge. As others have said, get a ScanGauge or Ultragauge. With the amount of fuel your truck uses, it'll pay for itself in no time.

2) I'm skeptical anyway. My experience is: people worry way too much about acceleration technique. If you're not pulsing & gliding, accel. style will have a small impact on your overall tank mileage. FAR more important is use of the brakes (sub/ex/urban driving obviously), and it sounds like you're headed in the right direction there.

I'd suspect filling technique, whether your routes/usage is identical to the tanks you're comparing, and whether or not you've actually re-filled the tank yet (it's mostly useless to guess based on the needle!).

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