Please tell me I'm doing this wrong
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Originally Posted by RyanMiller
how does letting it warm up at idle kill the mileage? when its cold out i useualy start it up and warm it up for like 5 min
Not to mention a cold engine needs more fuel to keep running (carb or FI) so if your only doing short trips and never warming up your always burning more gas than if the truck was warmed up. Which goes back to using gas while idleing to warm up. You can't win
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sure you can, get a bicycle to pedal to work
seriously, you have to empty your tank (like use 90% of the gas) in order to get a good reading.
plus, 3miles a day is a very short commute, you have to spend, what, $20 a week in gas?
If you want efficiency, you are going to have to ditch the truck and get a honda.
i have a grand am I drive to commute local and have a work truck to drive to work.
but, consider your self lucky if you can get 9 mpg on that short drive to work.
seriously, you have to empty your tank (like use 90% of the gas) in order to get a good reading.
plus, 3miles a day is a very short commute, you have to spend, what, $20 a week in gas?
If you want efficiency, you are going to have to ditch the truck and get a honda.
i have a grand am I drive to commute local and have a work truck to drive to work.
but, consider your self lucky if you can get 9 mpg on that short drive to work.
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