*vent* Argggh!!! my mileage goes to pot when I'm not driving
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Re: *vent* Argggh!!! my mileage goes to pot when I'm not driving
Originally Posted by Tim
LOL! I have long suspected my wife does the following when she drives my car:
- Enter car, turn on A/C, turn off Econ
- Let car idle for 5 minutes to 'warm up'
- Drive to gas station, deflate tires to 20 psi
- Drive to rock quary, put 200 lbs gravel in the trunk
- Stop at Starbucks - idle for 15 minutes in the drive through
- Street race in an all uphill course
- Find a freeway, drive 85 (whether a highway was on her way or not)
- Run whatever errand she needed to that apparantly required my car instead of hers
- Remove gravel, re-inflate tires, return car to garage
- Enter car, turn on A/C, turn off Econ
- Let car idle for 5 minutes to 'warm up'
- Drive to gas station, deflate tires to 20 psi
- Drive to rock quary, put 200 lbs gravel in the trunk
- Stop at Starbucks - idle for 15 minutes in the drive through
- Street race in an all uphill course
- Find a freeway, drive 85 (whether a highway was on her way or not)
- Run whatever errand she needed to that apparantly required my car instead of hers
- Remove gravel, re-inflate tires, return car to garage
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Joined: May 2004
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Re: *vent* Argggh!!! my mileage goes to pot when I'm not driving
Originally Posted by EricGo
Tim --- I sent your post to my wife .. 
She is much better now, but for awhile I just could not abide being a passenger in the car when she drove. It was almost as if she had confused the gas and brake pedals.
She is much better now, but for awhile I just could not abide being a passenger in the car when she drove. It was almost as if she had confused the gas and brake pedals.
She's actually to the point now where she's scared to drive my car. I get, "I don't like driving yours because I ruin the mileage and that makes you fussy."
She'll just stay home or wait for hers (that's if I'm using it to haul something).
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From: Gaia
Re: *vent* Argggh!!! my mileage goes to pot when I'm not driving
Ok, I managed my third 1000 mile tank . . . so I'm not that upset anymore!
With the colder weather coming, it looks like I won't be doing that again until next year though...
With the colder weather coming, it looks like I won't be doing that again until next year though...
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Re: *vent* Argggh!!! my mileage goes to pot when I'm not driving
Originally Posted by dshelman
Jeez, what are you doing to get 1,000??? Driving 30 everywhere?
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