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Old 09-02-2008, 02:54 AM   #59 (permalink)
orange4boy
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The Golden Egg - '93 Toyota Previa DX
90 day: 31.91 mpg (US)

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To keep things cooler in the parking lot, I use a $1.49 plastic thermal blanket on the outside of the vehicle attached with rare earth magnets, although you could use some strips of that flat sign magnet

This makes me a tinfoil totin' freak. I'm good with that. It works like a charm and you can be seen from space. (for signalling purposes you know)

If you go with deep cycles and an electric compressor, you have the added benefit of saving on alternator drag so you would have a mpg gain.
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