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Old 04-11-2009, 07:35 PM   #77 (permalink)
groar
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Originally Posted by Vekke View Post
Have you ever tried push and glide in higher speeds 80 mph etc. I have and its frustrating because you have to shift very often and because the glide is so short. This leads to that it isnt fuel effiecient to do that in higher speeds... I think P&G is efficient below 55mph in my car at the moment.
I tried once with the scenic, but with the headwind I had the feeling to drive a wall so I DWL at 65-75 mph. Since then, my wife is the primary scenic driver and I drive megane on which I use P&G at mid speed with success : http://ecomodder.com/forum/showthrea...55-a-7097.html

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If you havent tried this kind of technigue please try it and tell me what you see . Any feedback is welcome.
The tires pumped up to max sidewall and the rear wheel skirts are permitting to glide longer but the later are changing the feeling of the car so much that I'm now accelerating more and often over my max speed. In megane I don't have a real time FE display so only my butt-o-meter can tell me about my driving. If the coasting duration isn't longer than the pulse duration then I DWL (drive with load).

I'm in a 3 days week-end trip. My wife set a schedule forcing us to get the highway... Thanks to storms we changed the schedule and I avoided the highway

Denis.
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