[DML] Re: Fuel Economy

["David Teitelbaum" <jtrealty@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Have you checked your tire pressures recently? How much weight do you
have in the trunk? How long has it been since the car was last
tuned-up? Does it start and run smoothly? Just about everything
affects fuel economy. Does the car pull to one side? Maybe a caliper
piston is stuck and the brakes drag. Your emergency (parking brake)
could be dragging or out-of-adjustment. I have found, contrary to most
infornmation, that the higher the octane you use the slightly better
your gas mileage. The difference in price does not give enough mileage
to compensate for the increased mileage but I do notice the effect. Do
not use the gas gauge, it is not accurate enough to measure fuel
economy. The only way to check your fuel effiecency is to fill the gas
tank, reset the trip odometer, use up the gas, refill the tank, note
the mileage and divide the mileage by the amout of fuel used to refill
the tank. You should do this for every tank used and you should do
this on all your vehicles. This is an excellant measure of how the
vehicle is performing and if the mileage starts to drop off it is an
indicator that something is going wrong.
David Teitelbaum
vin 10757


--- In dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "John Rydholm" <ebondefender@xxxx> wrote:
> 
> 
> Hi all,
> I've noticed I've had somewhat decreased gas mileage lately. I can 
> drive my DeLorean about 36 or so miles avg. 55mph on a two-lane 
> highway, using about 1/4 tank of gas. My car is the 5-speed and I 
> shift smoothly with no problems. I don't know if my car just needs a 
> tune up or what. Is it just the fact that the car was tuned to the 
> standard 55 freeway speed/RPM's back then, or should have something 
> adjusted? My cousin once owned an 85' Trans-Am and it took him 1/4 
> to 1/3 of a tank just to drive 10 minutes to come over! (But that 
> was probably because he played around with the engine and maxed it 
> out to its limit.) Anyone have any gas problems like me? The prices 
> have been kind of crappy here lately.








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