I am getting crappy gas mileage, any help?

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jasoncarmony

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• Apr 8, 2004

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I am getting about 210 to a tank on my 2.3l n/a. i have recently changed the oil, spark plugs and spark plug wires. I need to change the air filter. what can i do?
Would the fuel pump have anything to do with this? I don't know too much about cars, so any suggestions would be great. I know that I should be getting better mileage than this. I have put a fuel injector cleaner in a tank of gas, but I didn't find that it helped too much. Although I did go about 20 more miles on that tank of gas. The first time I went only 200, after I added the cleaner, I went about 220 on a tank of gas. I was happy, but that is still below 20 miles to the gallon, and I don't have a gusling v8. Ugh!

 

Emysterio

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Apr 10, 2004

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I get 314 miles to the tank, My fuel gauge doesnt work and I ran out gas last week so I know its 314 to the dot. So yeah 210 does sound kinda low.

 

Dan P.

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Have you changed the fuel filter? Make sure you have put the boots of the wires all the way on to the plugs too I had one fall off before and she ran like crap.

 

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o2 sensor....when mine went bad i was gettin like 12mpg.

 

MSM0075

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Apr 11, 2004

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Could be alot of things, I did a tuneup on my '88 when it was N/A and it made the car alot more peppy but gas milage still stayed the same. I only get about 210 out of my 4cyls too.

 

mr_woodster

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Apr 11, 2004

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i was getting about 230 to tank which averaged out to be like 22-24 miles to the gallon, mine was an 87lx 5 speed! auto's usualy suck gas worse..also your driving habbits may have something to do with it.

 

bhuff30

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Apr 11, 2004

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I am getting right at 22mpg with mostly in town driving. That is about 300miles with 2 gallons left in the tank.
pull for codes.
Put a voltmeter on the O2 sensor to see if you are going into closed loop. (do a search whereever to figure out what I'm talking about).
I wonder how mine would do if I ever let off the gas? Last tank, I made 5 passes at the quarter, played around on the street, reved her to 4K in normal drving, and still got 22mpg.

 

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I'm getting good gas mileage how in the heck is that possible for the last three years or more I was getting 230-250 a tank of gas town/high mix. The other day I got 315 miles to the tank Last light I got gas and drove 215 mines and still had 3 1/2 gallons in the tank where I usualy had 1 1/2 gallon left. That is so dang weird since I haven't changed crap not even that EDIS I need to replace

 

Lex

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Apr 13, 2004

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• Apr 13, 2004

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I'm not trying to insult anyone here but I'v done this myself. I use to tramp down on the pedal to take off and go up hills and I noticed I was burning more gas going to my GFs. Last week I decided when I fueled up to be nice to the poor car and cruise more, and I got a few extra KMs since the week before. So to me it was Driving Habbits. Also I changed to Supreme Gas instead of regular a couple weeks ago and that actually made a difference too. I'm probally not helping but thats what worked for me