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- From: sontakke@helix.enet.dec.com (Vikas Sontakke)
- Subject: Sudden and Drastic Drop in Gas Mileage
- Message-ID: <1992Nov10.134924.11873@engage.pko.dec.com>
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- Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 13:28:33 GMT
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- I am experiencing a drastic and very sudden drop in the gas mileage (i.e. from
- 30's into 20's). I have not done anything to the car recently. The oil was
- changed 1.5K miles ago, spark plugs were changed around 4K miles. The
- driveability and the performance of the car has not changed a bit. There is
- NO smoke, NO smell. Choke opens as it should when the car warms up.
-
- The weather has become very cold in this part of the country. But few extra
- minutes of warm-up does not explain such a drop in the mileage.
-
- All tune-up components (such as plugs, cap, rotor, wires etc) are new or nearly
- new. The mileage of the car has always dropped in the winter months (from 30 to
- 27) but since last tankful, every time I start the car, I swear the gas needle
- loses a tick or two.
-
- Since the car had been running pretty decently, I do not want to mess with it
- much. Besides it is freezing out there to take a wrench.
-
- I will be switching gas stations to rule out bad gas. However, I can't see how
- the car can start drinking the gasoline by gallons (last 300 miles) and not
- change its performance or driveability by an iota. Gas is not leaking and it is
- not being siphoned off. Nothing else can explain this drop.
-
- For crying out loud, my other car, Taurus SHO got 27.5 miles on its last 1400
- miles trip!
-
- (car is 83 Honda Prelude, 115K miles, carburated, KNOCK_ON_THE_WOOD-> runs as
- nice as it did when it was new <-KNOCK_ON_THE_WOOD)
-
- { Kenny Crudup, are you listening??? }
-
- Vikas Sontakke Digital Equipment Corporation, Maynard MA.
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