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Subject:Re: {SPAM?} Low - LOW - gas mileage !?
From:Mike Miller
Date:Mon, 8 Jan 2007 00:44:05 -0800

That the mileage I've gotten around town with both my two wheel and four
wheel drive campers. Others have different experiences and I don't know why.

Mike

On 1/8/07 12:31 AM, "annasan1@comcast.net >Anna QS<" <annasan1@COMCAST.NET>
wrote:

> A belated Happy New Year to all . . . . I have an immediate need for help
> troubleshooting a recent and untimely problem. Low gas mileage. Now, I realize
> these are old vehicles (mine is an '86) and they drive more like a truck.
> However, I really am not used to getting only 13 or 14 at most mpg on her. I
> originally got maybe 17 or 18 mpg and cannot explain this drastic change.
> Help!?
>        It's been a relatively warm winter here in Portland OR so I don't crank
> the dashboard heat; I haven't used any auxiliary stuff that would be gas
> guzzling; nor do I take her heavy duty intense driving. Just putter around
> town. So - any hints and troubleshooting I can try before taking her into the
> shop?  I change oil regularly, keep unleaded (not topped off) in the tank and
> don't have a heavy foot ( on an '86 ??!!!) Thanx in advance - Anna & Blue
> Mongrel
> -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- - - - -
> " The answer is always "NO" 100% of the time you don't ask".
>
>

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