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On 6 Oct 2002, at 11:26, Kevin Guarnotta wrote: > my squareback seems to be drinking gas like....like...like a car that sucks > a lot of gas. i finally decided to mark down fill up points to determine > mileage. This is a very good habit to get in to. If you track your mileage at every fillup you will catch a number of problems early on. The way to do this is to write down the odometer mileage and the # of gallons at each fillup. The difference between the present # of miles and the previous # is the distance you've traveled since your last fillup, the # of gallons you just put in is the amount of gas that required. Then you can calculate the miles/gal without knowing what the tank holds. I keep a little notebook in the glove compartment of each car. Every time I fill up I enter a line with: date / miles / <space> / gallons used / <space> Later, when I have time, I take the difference between the miles here and the miles on the line above and enter that difference in the first space; that's the number of miles I drove on gallons I just replaced. Then I divide that mileage difference by the gallons used and enter the miles/gal in the last space. This is quite accurate if you just fill up the tank every time. > it is a '67-how much should my tank hold? Just under 11 gallons, but don't use this to estimate miles/gal. The gauge is a very poor measure of how many gallons you really used. > what kind of mileage do you guys get on your machines? I think 25-30 for US gallons in a 67. - ******************************* Jim Adney, jadney@vwtype3.org Madison, Wisconsin, USA ******************************* ------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <type3-off@vwtype3.org> For more help, see http://vwtype3.org/list/