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Date:         Tue, 3 May 2005 12:12:06 -0600
Reply-To:     jimt <camper@TACTICAL-BUS.INFO>
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From:         jimt <camper@TACTICAL-BUS.INFO>
Subject:      Re: 1986 Vanagon GL Auto - Mileage
Comments: To: jbange <hfinn@INGRATES.NET>
In-Reply-To:  <6.2.1.2.2.20050503075803.04903e28@66.51.205.14>
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On 5/3/05 9:14, "jbange" <hfinn@INGRATES.NET> wrote:

> At 05:37 AM 5/3/2005, you wrote: >> You might bump it up a half mile per gallon more by cruising at no moe >> than 55 mph and addiing type F fluid to the trans to help the clutches >> grab better, but you'll hardly never see 16 mpg. in an automatic >> Vanagon. >> >> If someone makes ridiculous claims otherwise, they are blatantly >> pevaricating. > > Call me a prevaricator, but over the course of 6 months and 2000+ miles > before I had a head stud snap, I consistently got 18-19mpg from mine (auto > transmission, over 200K miles on original engine). Flat highway driving at > 55-60mph would get it to 19 and change, only ever breaking 20 if there was > a downhill slope to it. City driving brought the average down, but I never > did enough to get a good idea of what the mpg was. Mileage was recorded via > GPS, so I wasn't a victim of an over-enthusiastic odometer. An auto westy > might never see above 16, but a GL certainly could do better than that. > >

The old mileage charts showed 15 city 19 hiway and 16 avg. noncamper standard trans. For a camper they just estimated that it would drop about 1 mpg. For the auto it was still 15 city and the hiway dropped to 18 and the avg stayed at 16. Most auto vans around here that I have seen donΉt usually see the 18. It is usually 17 on the hiway.

On my old AC engine it was supposedly the same specs as the later WB standard trans but I got 13 city and 17 hiway with and avg driving of about 14mpg. Several other camper AC std engine around here are getting about the same figures I got. I think the variations in altitude in colorado make fun of mileage charts for older engines.

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