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Old 09-15-2014, 12:35 PM   #5 (permalink)
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It's putting a load on the alternator, so the answer is "yes." But it's such a minor load that you couldn't detect its effect on your mileage without extensive, highly accurate testing, and in the real world it's negligible. Better than opening a window at speed, though.
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