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Old 04-13-2007, 08:06 PM
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Friend has a lt1 with full exhaust, cai. He got 197 miles on a full tank. Hows that sound?
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that doesn't sound very good. with my mods i can stretch it to get 300 miles but i usually fill up around 275mi.
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With the wonderful accuracy of gauges in these cars, how about you give us a MPG number and not something so vague? It's pretty simple. Next time he fills up, reset the trip meter, drive a tank, fill it up at the same pump preferably... divide miles driven by how much gas you put in. How are his driving habits? 6 speed? Auto? Wheres he drive mostly? In town? Freeway? Gears? Mods? FWIW, my girlfriends 'stock 94 T/A A4 with 3.23's with a 60/40 mix freeway to city gets about 17MPG average. Car has 160K on it.
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The car is a4 and is mostly stop and go. Im pretty sure he had a race in that full tank. But he is pretty much stock except for the full exhaust. Car has 140k.
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i get 150 or so
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damn i thought it was just me,235 miles.guage sucks,drops off real fast when it hits 1/4 tank.

97 stock a4.
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i get anywhere from 17mpg all the way down to 9 or 10. depends on how i drive that tank of gas. yea i got magic gas hand thats quick after a lil less than half a tank. i filled up at half a tank once and it was close to 9 gal. haha
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I run 210 miles pretty consistantly driving it hard as always. 383 6 speed with 4.56 gears.
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I get about 330, If I drive civilized
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I get about 200.. the Gauge does drop quick, if it's at 1/2 on it, it's actually a 1/4 tank. Pretty much half of what is says past that point.
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Man, I get like 140 all the time. I don't drive the car hard at all in fact it never gets above 2500 rpms. I think its so bad because my work is about 5 minutes away and so my car never really gets warmed up.

Some of you guys get some crazy miles, any suggestions. New plugs wires and one 02 sensor.
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452 miles to the tank on the FREEWAY only,yay 6th gear.
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I get about 300 on the interstates and 220 around town.
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94, A4, not running ac with 127000 pretty much stock except for cai, catback, and cat delete. I got 17.9 mpg babying it with all stop and go driving. A few tanks later I checked it with more normal driving, still all city and got 16.5 mpg.
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i get about 7 miles to the gallon, thats pretty decent for WOT 100 percent of the time so im happy
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wow...i have having some O2 sensors probs, i was getting shitty gas mileage. I unpluged the bank 2 sensor until i get a chance to take the manifold off and swithe them out. But i filled all the way up from empty. 14.000 gallons, 38.00 bucks. All city driving lead footed a few times and got about 275 miles to empty.
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i had a 95 m6 z28.all stock except no cats and flowmaster.i averaged around 300-330 a tank.mostly interstate driving though.it was my daliy driver so it wasnt drove hard alot.
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Originally Posted by hi officer
i filled up at half a tank once and it was close to 9 gal. haha
i filled up today at just under half a tank and it took 10.4 gallons. only reason i stopped is because i had only wanted $30 worth
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gas prices are starting to get bad again...2.86 a gallon for 93 octane. But i guess its not getting any better.
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Originally Posted by the_merv
I get about 200.. the Gauge does drop quick, if it's at 1/2 on it, it's actually a 1/4 tank. Pretty much half of what is says past that point.
I hate that part about these cars. I get 200 as well, then again I have alot of small trips and stop and go. So it makes sense.


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