Nah, placebo effect in an uncontrolled environment.
The audience awaits your next blog post (?) if this is what this thread turned into.
My MPG on 0w20
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Nah, placebo effect in an uncontrolled environment.
The audience awaits your next blog post (?) if this is what this thread turned into.
Here’s a good post by someone who knows a lot more about the subject than I do:
The graph below represents several years of my actual MPG that I calculated on each fill-up. Same driver, same car, same oil brand and grade, and mostly same gas station. The spikes up and down are from long freeway trips or traffic jams, but most of the data falls between the red lines, which is +- 14% from the average, a 28% range! Trying to attribute a couple of percent move (i.e. 0.5 mpg) to changing one variable is not possible from such point scatter.
And here are a few of the variables that can affect fuel economy:
And here are a few of the variables that can affect fuel economy:
- Tire pressure
- Tire...
Are you using the shell app? If you fill up at least 10 gallons each time, you get a small discount after every 4 fill ups.
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I use my phone number at each fill up. Will get the app too, thanks.
If the interior is still in shape and it runs fine, I don't see a reason to discard a functioning vehicle
Gasbuddy is what I like to use. $10 a month gets you free recovery and a much larger discount up to a certain number of gallons
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The interior is what I am questioning. At 200k my interior is falling apart. Uber is rough on the interior.
if everything else is ok maybe salvage some interior pieces from a wrecked low mileage unit?
I went from 0w20 to euro 30wt my mpg is down aprox 5-10%...
And I switched to oversize Continental dws06+
Got 26.5mpg to buffalo and back this week.. but downpours and full AC use whole time.
along with aprox 30min of idling.
I'd estimate with factory tires and 0w20 It would have been 1.5 to 2mpg higher.. and getting blown out of my lane on the oem rubber
This is the turbo motor. Oil temps were 195-202f.. except in parking lot idling then they creep up a little.
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If you can do it yourself, great, otherwise the labor cost is not worth it
This interior looks great. maybe I'm just used to beat up stuff
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I need to find a cheap upholstery shop that will fix some things. And that plastic part under the seat is broken, thanks to a heavy and crazy passenger.
what here is chaotic?
Road surfaces, tire temps, braking requirements, idling, hilly, merging, yielding, window position (up, down, party open and which ones are open), passenger weight, luggage or not, gas BTU and/or presence of oxygenates as the gas composition changes from summer to winter blend, ambient temps, rain/snow, wind speed and direction, accelerator movement, A/C compressor, pad retraction effectiveness, following distance behind various shaped vehicles and at various speeds, etc. Many variables = chaotic.
Compared to a -20 grade you may gain about a 0.5% consumption improvement.
However, that grade is not backwards-compatible for engines not designed to tolerate it.
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I was just joking because this engine thinks it’s a v8, except it doesn’t produce the power like a v8 lol
Random posts from people who already know the answer.
Hows it run? Rough idle, hesitation? Sometimes the spider (the injection distributor), fuel pressure regulator or related lines can be leaking. You can test by doing a fuel pressure leak down test.
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It’s all good. I installed new spider injectors, new regulator, new o2 sensors, distributor, wires, spark plug and all. It runs great, it just drinks too much gas. It’s just how these engines are. It’s a 2001 4.3 Vortec with mpfi and all that.