If all the city driving you're reporting is in and around Bend, you may very
well be running quite rich due to the poor van never really warming up.

Karl Wolz

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From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
Rocket J Squirrel
Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2011 2:17 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: Report: gas mileage, in town, 1.9L AT

On Tue, 2011-04-05 at 13:48 -0700, Robert Fisher wrote:

> All I can get is E10. I'd be willing to go with the idea that your low
> number may be due to environmental factors beyond your control, but I'd
> still look for mechanical/electrical culprits (misadjusted brakes, etc.)

Well, jeepers -- if someone wants to volunteer to come to Bend to dig
more deeply into this, I'm down with that, because everything I'm
capable of checking has been checked, and I've had the eyes of two
mechanics on this thing in the past 6 months, both men who know
Vanagons. There may be something that's been overlooked, but I have no
idea how to find it.

> IIRC there was a thread within the last couple of years that compiled a
> pretty exhaustive list of those things.

I was struggling with lousy mileage first half of 2008 and chewing up a
lot of list bandwidth while troubleshooting. Checked into every darn
thing that everyone suggested. So that might have been me. Turned out to
be the ECU.

Now my highway mileage is fine, even towing my little camping trailer.
That's 90% of what I use this van for. Takes me a month to go through a
tank of gas in non-camping season. So this isn't a major deal.
--
Rocky J Squirrel

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