Now that my paranoia over darker coolant has subsided, I thought I'd share a pleasant surprise with our new westy. The wife kindly bought me a GPS unit for the b-day which solves the speedo issue (it's WAY overly optimistic - pegs out at 65mph). The thing has an odometer function on it too and I used it this morning to see how far off the stock odometer really was.

Turns out the VDO odometer is only off by about 1.6% - compared to the 5-6% that I was expecting. The comparison was on just an 11mi drive so things may be slightly different once I do a longer test. As it is, the van got 23.4mpg on the way back from Everybus this past weekend - not bad. All new FI components on the original 1.9 help and a light foot doesn't hurt either. Once I get back to city driving the mpg goes down, however. I can deal with that.

john