Worst gas mileage ever!

[TopsailBeach]

How about 65 miles for a half-tank....? Check out Raleigh, NC weather. I was on the road from 11:30 am until 7:30 pm due to 1" of snow. On the road, stop and roll for EIGHT HOURS!!!! Talk about some quality time in the 911.

Time to change the oil for sure. The temperature stayed at the white mark below the red for several hours today.

Us Southerners don't know what to do when the white stuff falls.

[kqw]

Winter is here A J...

However, the oil temp concerns me....Didn't your oil cooler fan kick in???

[dtw]

I've got you beat. 8 hours and 30 miles. I was thanking my lucky stars I wasn't in a 911 sitting all that traffic.

The things I saw today will stay with me forever. I drove 16 hours up the east coast nonstop Raleigh to Boston in a Ford Bronco in the worst blizzard of the 1990s and saw some amazing things. But today, I saw more wrecked, disabled, and abandoned vehicles in 30 miles than I saw on all 600 miles of that trip.

Biggest pucker factor of the trip: Losing traction on the rear end and having the tail miss the concrete divider by a frog hair.

Biggest idiot moment of the trip: Sitting for 45 minutes, truck off, playing solitaire on the laptop, waiting for a few inches of movement in traffic. Notice that traffic is beginning to move a few cars up, but the 2nd car in front of me is not moving. Great, I think, he must be out of gas. After a minute I pull around and peer over to see if he needs help. No hazard lights on or anything. Not out of gas, the jackass was fast asleep. My horn didn't wake him up so I jumped out of the truck and beat on his glass until he awoke with a snort and a start. I've never seen someone start a car and throw it in gear that fast.

What a day.

[randywebb]

Maybe he had CO in the air he was breathing. You might have saved his life.

[masraum]

Originally posted by kqw
Winter is here A J...

However, the oil temp concerns me....Didn't your oil cooler fan kick in???

On a 3.2L car with a radiator style cooler and fan (only the later 3.2L cars, I believe) the stock fan thermostat turns the fan on at 245*F. On a Carrera temp gauge if you have the thick white mark at the bottom of the gauge, two thinner white marks, and then the red mark at the top 250 is the uppermost white mark. So, since his temp stayed at the top white mark for a long time he was at 250. Since it didn't go above that temp I bet his fan did come on.

[austin552]

Well, Thanks for not sending any down to Kinston today. We saw a few flakes. I am ready for Spring!

[dtw]

Originally posted by austin552
Well, Thanks for not sending any down to Kinston today. We saw a few flakes. I am ready for Spring!

I was out in shorts and t-shirt last week, it was in the 60s and 70s. Now this. Gotta love NC.