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Old 09-19-2008, 07:54 AM   #8 (permalink)
Will
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Location: Brownsville, Tn
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Meat-roll - '97 Geo Metro
Team Metro
90 day: 55.4 mpg (US)

Wife's Brruik - '03 Buick Century
90 day: 30.84 mpg (US)

Blue Balt - '08 Chevrolet Cobalt XFE
Team Chevy
90 day: 38.19 mpg (US)
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Unlike most I found worse results with EOC. It may have been too many hills on my commute, or heck, maybe I was doing it wrong. I have decided that for the short term I will not be using it.

I have hemmed myself into a corner by selling off my Buick. We now only have my Metro and my wife's Buick. In short I cannot afford to take gambles with the health of the Metro, and I worry about the effects of bump starts on little Metro axles and CV joints, and excessive starter wear.

That being said there are a couple of stretches that I cut the motor off and coast. One is .5 miles downhill into a stop sign, and one is coming into my little town where there is a .4 miles slight downhill with dropping speed limits.
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