On Mon, 23 Jan 2006, Michael Maskalans wrote:
> Terrible Tom wrote:
> >
> > Sup Mike! I see you have a Jetta TDI, stick shift for daily driver
> > duties eh? You suck :D hehe Hows it doing? Have you had enough time
> > to determine its MPG figures?
> >
>
> I bought it with lalf a tank in it, burned that off last weekend in
> almost 300 miles, will fill up tomorrow for the first time since, should
> be a bit over 500 miles. I've got lots of people curious how well it'll
> do. I'm betting low 40s/really high 30s, and that's pretty sweet for
> how I've been beating... er... driving it.
481.7 miles on 12.4 gallons = 38.8 MPG.
not too shabby for being to the floor in first through third off every
stop and driving 80MPH everywhere, except for where I do 75 or 85+...
Although I happen to have found (the first time I whipped out my GPS
in the car, last thursday) that my speedometer is about 5% high, so
that's more like 37MPG. I'll be extremely interested to see what I get
the first time I drive it to CT or NYC or MN at a sane speed.
Also interested to see what I get when I start using my Klee's fuel treat
- I picked up about 15% in the Ford 7.3 N/A IDI. I'm sure the TDI won't
see that much improvement but I wouldn't be surprised to see a few MPG.
Have to spend a month laying a 3-4 tank baseline though, so I'll keep
having fun =)
Still not complaining,
-- +-- Mike Maskalans ---------------- Rochester, NY ----------+ | '98 Dakota CC, SAS on 40s '84 RamCharger 4x4, plow truck | | '02 Jetta TDI 5sp, daily '97 Intrepid, not on the road | +-------------------- <http://mike.tepidcola.com/trucks/> --+
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