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Subject:Re: How much gas will your syncro take?
From:Mike Miller
Date:Sun, 13 Apr 2008 21:43:44 -0700

That's somebody's pump meter cheating.

IMHO.

Mike

On 4/13/08 8:04 PM, "Christopher Gronski" <gronski@GMAIL.COM> wrote:

> Someone once told me that elevating the passenger side wheel makes it easier
> to fill your syncro. I always try to orient my van at the pump with at least
> the back end higher than the front, but if possible I'll park diagonally to
> get that one wheel higher than the rest. If my van is particularly empty
> I've often put MORE than the advertised 70L / 18.5 gal. Now yesterday I was
> practically running on fumes when I filled up. I ended up putting in 75.043L
> / 19.82 gal according to the pump which seemed like quite a bit over
> capacity, I'm just wondering what everyone's largest fill up was...
>
> Christopher