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On Sun, 2005-08-28 at 15:10, Jim Adney wrote: > Saturday: > > I drove down into northern Illinois. Quite a few county highways and some > freeway driving. I tried to limit myself to 60 mph. Some driving was in towns > and was slower. > > 1st fillup: 215 miles 7.23 gallons 29.7 mi/gal (more downwind) > 2nd fillup 102 miles 3.74 gallons 27.2 mi/gal (more upwind) > > Saturday's round trip totals: > > 317 miles 10.97 gallons 28.9 mi/gal (round trip) > > Sunday > > I drove north from Madison to pick up some type 3 parts (see my other post.) > This time I allowed myself to go 65, but there were still some stretches of 60 > and even 55, as well as some in-town driving. > > Sunday's single fillup: > > 90 miles 3.36 gallons 26.7 mi/gal > > I'm not sure that I believe that the difference between 60 and 65 mi/hr should > make an 8% difference in gas mileage, but maybe Dave can check out his road > test report and tell us if they concur. > > I found that driving this slowly was a real chore. I'm just not used to going > this slowly, and at 60 mi/hr, I really was an annoyance to other drivers. At 65 > I didn't feel in the way, so this might be a good speed to travel at, when I > have the time to spend so I can save some gas. > > It is very interesting to see that I must now blame most all of my past poor > mileage scores on my own driving habits. A true way to check over all gas milage, is to record the consumption over several tanks of gas, and then calculate it. I notice that some of you figures were on less that 5 gal. fillups. This could be effected by the way the car was sitting when you filled it, the senstivity of nozzle on the pump, etc. I have always done the 5 tanks fulls and then figure it. -- Russ Wolfe '71 FB AT '66 FB MT '64 T34 (not running) '65 T1 (not running) '05 KIA Sorento SUV russw@classicvw.org http://www.classicvw.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list | mailto:gregm@vwtype3.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~