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Originally Posted by KJSatz
I think that the pump last time overfilled a little, or filled more than the other pumps I have used. The fill-to-click long-division method gives 47.8MPG! This was with 65 miles of city driving and then about 250 miles of highway driving. If you do a weighted average with the 65 city miles at 35MPG, the highway is over 50...but I am skeptical...
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I've thought about this a lot, and I agree! There is no
control procedure, so called!
The bugaboo with all this (fill n' calculate your mileage stuff) seems to be the 'fill-to-click' procedure you use!
For instance, the angle and attitude of the car during filling can make a difference, as to how much gas you can get into it - is it facing uphill or downhill - to the left or to the right? Did you fill the tank fast or slow - and how fast or how slow did you fill it, and does ANY of this make ANY difference, blah, blah, blah...
Really, the only true measure of mileage can be averaging the results over a period of time and space - but - over how many miles do you average it - and for what length of time?
LoL!
I'm a skeptic too...
Sometimes I think we're all making a big deal over nothing - to make ourselves *feel* better about being skeptics - but I'm skeptical about that too!
