Non car people and their crazy fuel saving ideas.

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J-MacsMopars said:
As some of you know, I work as a service advisor at a car dealership. With this position I get to see some crazy things, recently with fuel prices getting higher, people come up with some interesting ideas. Everyone knows the trick of pumping up your tires a few pounds, how ever somepeople take this to an extreme. I have had people in here with their civic with 65+ psi. You try to tell them the damage that it causes and all try can see is that it may save them a buck at the fuel pump. Well today I heard a new one. A guy comes in for an oil change and says he ONLY wants four quarts of oil. Is vehicle requires 5.5 quarts. I tell him that the vehicle requires 5.5 and he declines and says he wants four in there as it is less restrictive and gets better milage. I guess that buck he may save will go towards replacing the engine.

What are some stories you see or hear?
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I loved it when the customers would come into Hyundai and ***** about fuel mileage.

"My car is rated blah, blah, blah for mileage. It's getting 5 less than that. Something's wrong with my car!"

Nothing's wrong with the car. There's everything wrong with the idiot behind the wheel.

Gas is cheap. According to how people around here drive. Race to the next red light. Jack rabbit start? Check. Idling longer at the next light? Check. Eighty miles an hour up the highway? Check. And they wonder why their fuel mileage sucks. Then, because they aren't smart enough to know how to drive for mileage: complain about fuel mileage and b**** about high fuel prices? Check.
 
Anytime someone asks me about the fuel mileage on my dart I tell them:

"It's somewhere between son of a ***** and Im flat assed broke"

I swear sooner or later I'll have my own express lane at the local gas station :D

"Reserved For Kyle"
 
Drache said:
Anytime someone asks me about the fuel mileage on my dart I tell them:

"It's somewhere between son of a ***** and Im flat assed broke"

I swear sooner or later I'll have my own express lane at the local gas station :D

"Reserved For Kyle"
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lol it just seems dumb when they ask that
 
I constantly hear hecklers saying "Damn that thing must be killing you on gas , especially these days !"
Then I say -- depending upon who's *inquiring* about my Coronet's mileage :

- ' I don't have to worry about smog checks and computers , so it works for me alright ! '

- ' How much are you paying for full-coverage insurance , annual registration , tyres , smog inspections , etc. , just to obtain 30 mpg ? '

- ' My car's been around for 40 years ... Where's your Prius , Leaf , Yaris , etc. , etc. , going to be in 40 years ? '

My car gets anywhere between 15 - 20 mpg depending on traffic conditions , up-hill or downgrade driving , and average speed .
I'm okay with that in exchange for rip-off Calif registration , outrageous insurance , cheap brittle plastic air cleaner boxes , smog checks , CV axles , timing belts , etc. !
 
i will say that i spent 2200 on my 6.7 megacab and went from 11 mpg to 18 mpg. diesel is 4.00 a gallon=28 dollars a tank full and i fill up 3 times a week. i save 84 dollars a week in fuel. H&S mini max, DPF and cat deleat, EGR deleat and 5" stacks (my 16 year old female talked me in to those!)
 
I'll mention to people how my Jeep Cherokee doesn't get the best MPG, usually 15-18. These people will mention how I should get a Prius or some electric car.

Well my Jeep cost me $800 2+ years ago to buy. With very cheap insurance and initial cost I'd have to put on a ton of miles just to break even.
 
I dont get the point of people buying these hybrids if they only drive hwy miles. Last I checked a fusion hybrid costs 33 grand and gets like 41 city 36 hwy 39 combined. My old v6 auto sebring would get 30-32 hwy depending on your speed and 16-17 in town. Would take alot of miles to make up the diffrence of a 2000 dollar car to a 33000 one.
 
Fill the blinker fluid only half way and filling your tires with helium should lighten the load and give better mileage.

I like to tell yuppie hybrid car people that I burn fuel at a constant 4 mpg and wear out tires in under 2000 miles. And it can burn fuel at 69 gph when running in the power band while testing on the dyno... for some reason this tweeks these tree hugging nerds!
 
Drache said:
Anytime someone asks me about the fuel mileage on my dart I tell them:

"It's somewhere between son of a ***** and Im flat assed broke"

I swear sooner or later I'll have my own express lane at the local gas station :D

"Reserved For Kyle"
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when my Duster had the fully-built 340 to go along with the 4.10s, I always said it got 18 miles per gallon.

10 on the highway and 8 in town:D
 
D Dodge said:
G.M. thought that would work, too, with the V-8-6-4. It was supposed to start out on 8 cylinders and end up running on 4 when you got to a certain speed. It was a disaster.
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Well, you know the new 5.7 Hemi's (at least the truck ones, not sure about the car version) do that, and it seems to work quite well, and does save gas. Of course, the engine was designed for it to work, not the same thing as just unplugging half the plug wires!
 
We see a lot of bio diesels at our shop. Beat up, POS wrecks they think are so cool because they live on vegetable oil and smell like Burger King. One guy had his wreck of a 84 Mercedes 300 SD with fuel ... sorry, oil lines hanging so low they dragged on the ground on bumps. Oil was leaking HEAVILY from every orifice. It leaked oil so badly that it was actually dripping off the rear bumper. He was just proud as hell of this car because it was bio diesel. His complaint? No blower motor operation. We spent an two hours disassembling dash and diagnosing his issue. He needed a blower resistor / controller and a dash control panel. Let me tell you, these parts aren't easy to come by. His bill, had he chosen to fix it was just over $1000 for diagnosis and repair. To fix his blower motor. Thank God he is saving so much running vegetable oil.
 
72Dodge said:
Well, you know the new 5.7 Hemi's (at least the truck ones, not sure about the car version) do that, and it seems to work quite well, and does save gas. Of course, the engine was designed for it to work, not the same thing as just unplugging half the plug wires!
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My brother's Magnum R/T with the 5.7 Hemi has cylinder displacement. It cuts out cylinders at highway speeds. He averages 22 MPH highway, and he drives that dang Magnum like he stole it.
 
what morons.

My wife's 2011 Chrysler 200 gets a few MPGs better than the factory claims the car gets. HA YEAH
 
Here's a some tips I read. Fill the tank slowly(first Click on pump lever). It puts in more liquid and less foam. Fill up at the coolest times of day (early morning or at night). Supposedly you get more fuel in the tank compared to when it's extremely hot out. Use the cruise control. Drive slower.
 
My dad told me of a friend's crazy dad that took two pistons out of a 318 in his 70s dodge van to make it into a 6 cyl. Said it got a lot better milage, too...
 
LH23H2R said:
I constantly hear hecklers saying "Damn that thing must be killing you on gas , especially these days !"
Then I say -- depending upon who's *inquiring* about my Coronet's mileage :

- ' I don't have to worry about smog checks and computers , so it works for me alright ! '

- ' How much are you paying for full-coverage insurance , annual registration , tyres , smog inspections , etc. , just to obtain 30 mpg ? '

- ' My car's been around for 40 years ... Where's your Prius , Leaf , Yaris , etc. , etc. , going to be in 40 years ? '

My car gets anywhere between 15 - 20 mpg depending on traffic conditions , up-hill or downgrade driving , and average speed .
I'm okay with that in exchange for rip-off Calif registration , outrageous insurance , cheap brittle plastic air cleaner boxes , smog checks , CV axles , timing belts , etc. !
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X2 This says it all. I agree.
On top of....which is way cooler, way more powerful, turns more heads, and is just completely totally awesome!!
 
Pulse & glide overview

Pulse and glide works like this: let's say you're on a road where you want to go 60 km/h. Instead of driving along at a steady 60, you instead accelerate to 70 (that's the pulse), and then coast in neutral with the engine off down to 50 (that's the glide). That's it. Rinse and repeat. And repeat. And repeat...

By doing this, you're still averaging 60 km/h, but it turns out that pulse and glide is significantly more efficient than driving along maintaining a steady 60 km/h.

If you're like me, it seems completely counter-intuitive. You're asking, "how can that possibly be more efficient than maintaining a steady speed in the highest possible gear?" After all, it violates one of the main commandments of efficient driving: conserving momentum.

Read more about it here.

http://www.metrompg.com/posts/pulse-and-glide.htm
 
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