Date:         Wed, 21 Apr 2004 09:35:10 -0500
Reply-To:     John Rodgers <jh_rodgers@BELLSOUTH.NET>
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From:         John Rodgers <jh_rodgers@BELLSOUTH.NET>
Subject:      Re: WOW - you CAN get over 20mpg in a westy...
Comments: To: John Runberg <jrunberg@MAC.COM>
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My mileage varies up and down from 17 to 22 mpg depending on which way
the wind blows and how hard I push it. It seems as though the optimum
speed for best mileage is 50-55 mph. I invaribly get the best mileage in
that range. Tailwinds it's best, Headwinds it's worse. this was
expecially true traveling across the Great Plains on trips.

Regards,

John Rodgers
88 GL Driver

John Runberg wrote:

>Now that my paranoia over darker coolant has subsided, I thought I'd share a pleasant surprise with our new westy. The wife kindly bought me a GPS unit for the b-day which solves the speedo issue (it's WAY overly optimistic - pegs out at 65mph). The thing has an odometer function on it too and I used it this morning to see how far off the stock odometer really was.
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>Turns out the VDO odometer is only off by about 1.6% - compared to the 5-6% that I was expecting. The comparison was on just an 11mi drive so things may be slightly different once I do a longer test. As it is, the van got 23.4mpg on the way back from Everybus this past weekend - not bad. All new FI components on the original 1.9 help and a light foot doesn't hurt either. Once I get back to city driving the mpg goes down, however. I can deal with that.
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