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MetroMPG · 10-02-2019, 01:35 PM

I made it! (To the gas station, without running out.)

And I also learned I'd been operating on the incorrect assumption that the MPGiata had a 40 L tank... it's a 45 L tank.

So I "only" put 41 L in. Turns out there was nothing to be worried about after all!

That means I can theoretically do a kilotank (1000 km) based on my recent MPG. A project for next summer! I'll bring along a measured amount of fuel in a jerry can near the end. Frank will be proud of me.

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