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Old 04-04-2002, 05:09 PM
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Gas Mileage

What kind of gas mileage does everyone get? I have only been getting about 13mpg which seems rather low. I use 92 octane gas and occasionally put fuel injector cleaner in it.

The other day a strange thing happened, when I turned the car on a plume of bluish/black smoke came out the exhaust, perhaps this is part of the cause. This only happened once though so I'm rather confused.

Oh yeah, my car is a 92 with 72,000 miles on it. Thanks everyone.
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Old 04-04-2002, 05:29 PM
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I get 25 on the highway. I got 140K on it.
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Old 04-04-2002, 05:34 PM
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I get 26 on the highway and 18 to 20 city/highway.
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Old 04-04-2002, 07:25 PM
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I get 19-20 city and 27-30 highway.
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Old 04-04-2002, 08:16 PM
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been getting about 20, mostly city, occasional highway. 10-15 on the weeks i feel the need for speed

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Old 04-04-2002, 08:44 PM
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22-23 on pure highway driving if I'm a really good boy. 15-16 the rest of the time. :-)
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Old 04-05-2002, 12:17 AM
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i have 128,000 and i get about 19-27 mpg city/highway.
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Old 04-05-2002, 11:23 AM
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22 mpg every time I check it.
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Old 04-05-2002, 12:26 PM
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Gas mileage

I got 16-18 in town and 25 on highway.

I have a 92 with 74K.
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Old 04-05-2002, 06:16 PM
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Okay I want 30 mpg How do you do that

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I get 19-20 city and 27-30 highway.
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Old 04-05-2002, 06:53 PM
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I have no idea! I've taken several long distance trips in the SVX and have averaged 30 mpg at 70 to 75 mph. I dont' have a lead foot though so that may have something to do with it
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Old 04-05-2002, 08:04 PM
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I get 16-18 in town and 29 on the road.

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Old 04-07-2002, 09:36 AM
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I get ~22 on mixed driving on my 96 SVX L. I got as high as 25/6 mpg once on a long trip (highway driving).

btw, the car has 73K miles on it.
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Old 04-08-2002, 05:03 AM
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I've taken several long distance trips in the SVX and have averaged 30 mpg at 70 to 75 mph.
Okay What type of tires do you have? Your car is AWD? Tranny cooler or not? How long of a highway drive?

I drive 63 miles one way to work and I get no more than 25 mpg. So that is 25 MPG with 6 engine and tranny warm-ups. Average is about 75-80 and I am trying it slower.
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Old 04-08-2002, 05:04 AM
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I get 16-18 in town and 29 on the road.

Beav
Hi Beav,

Reading was good. What kind of tires do you have? Tranny cooler? AWD?

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