on the fog / mist.
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Behalf Of Kirk McLoren
Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2005
4:24 PM
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Subject: Re: [Biofuel] strange
observation re mileage
Didn't slow, used cruise control.
The truck gets 12.5 mpg
Water is heavy and sticks to the car and fills
divets in the bed of the truck (adding weight), plus the rain hitting the car
makes it have to work harder to maintain speed, and on top of all that the water
on the ground means your tires have you be turned with more force to get through
it.
Lots of standing water on the road? It's hard for the computer to change
things _that_ much. Or was that 12.5 indicated by the trip computer over a
short time?
-- Rob
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Didn't slow, used cruise control.
The truck gets 12.5 mpg towing a 24 foot steel Titan with 6 horses on board so I don't think the water matched that. I perceive it as mixture must change. Some sensor and computer thing.
KirkChris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Water is heavy and sticks to the car
When I saw my average mpg falling I reset the trip computer.The 12.5 was where it averaged.Next day I got 18+ on the same road. Road is crowned well, no standing water. Wasn't a trip computer error either as verified at fillup. Took the gallonage computer said it would.
Very strange
Kirk
RobT
