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Bad Gas Mileage**So.Cal owners please chime in**

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FallenPhoenix

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I'll be studying Business/financing at Angelo State next year. anyway I'm going to bed, school tommorow is going to suck

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JonJon

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FallenPhoenix said:
I guess I'm just pissed because I can remember it being ~$1 a gallon for regular
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yeah i remember that, 97 cents for regular. junior year of hs, like 7 years ago.
 
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modu1ar tek said:
Hey guys, in my last fill-up, I didn't really punch my car alot, but I still got a measly 16 mpg combined highway/streets. Im kinda dissapointed, bout 50% of my driving in the freeway is w/no traffic, and the other 50% is with traffic. Plus I drive it on the streets occasionally..what gas mpg do you guys get in so.cal?
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So Cal here as well. I get about 23 mpg on strictly highway driving and around 12-13 in the city. Even with 25% highway and 75% city driving I STILL get around 13 mpg's. That seems very low to me, and I have even had the dealer put the car on a computerized milage simulation check and they said it was within specs.... TWICE! I read so many posts of people saying they get much higher mpg in the city than I have ever gotten, and I drive civil most of the time. What gives? 13 mpg's sucks!!!! I have to fill up at around 180 miles......
Can the car be running rich?
 

JonJon

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pizzaguy said:
What gives? 13 mpg's sucks!!!! I have to fill up at around 180 miles......
Can the car be running rich?
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me 2 180 miles is so sad.
 

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How many miles does your car have? I have about 6k miles on the car now, and my mileage has gone up from 18 when I got it, to 21 now, and that's a mixture of highway and city, all with traffic
 

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jadesville said:
$1.93 = a gallon of 91 octane here
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91 octane runs about $1.73 here, 87 is $1.46 so I guess it isn't as bad as it could be.
 

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Ive checked my milage on the last 2 fill-ups and it was 20 mpg both times. I guess thats acceptable but it still seems like I fill up every 4 days.
 

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I've got an auto... never calculated the MPG but I get about 280 to a tank before I fill up. Around 285-290 the Low Fuel light comes on.

Gas prices suck. I paid 1.75 to fill up yesterday down in Orange County... and that was the cheapest 76 I could find.
 

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Islander03GT said:
I've got an auto... never calculated the MPG but I get about 280 to a tank before I fill up. Around 285-290 the Low Fuel light comes on.

Gas prices suck. I paid 1.75 to fill up yesterday down in Orange County... and that was the cheapest 76 I could find.
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what about the Arco station thats down by the bowling alley over by moorpark? they usually are really cheap when i am up there..
 

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I have a card for 76 for one, hehe.

Second, I've never had any luck with Arco gas... my S10 (H.O. 4.3L) would ping on their 87. So I try to aviod it. Only good cheap gas I've found is Costco.

And I wasnt in Simi/Moorpark, I was down around Dana Point. Although that probably explains how expensive it was.
 
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I work on marthas vineyard, Ma for the summer, where i drive my GT and premium (93) is about 2.26 a gallon. The cheapest you can get 87 for is like 2.06 I dunno what it is in the wintertime now, but i have to turn my tiing adjuster down beause the damn cost of gas there.
 

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just curious but when you guys say that you don't drive tough on your stang what rpm are you shifting at?
 

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sickstickGT03 said:
just curious but when you guys say that you don't drive tough on your stang what rpm are you shifting at?
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whatever teh tranny wants to shift at. Generally between 2 and 3k
 
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