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AaronM AaronM is offline
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Originally posted by UconnTim97
my miles per gallon reads about 20 mpg when started in the winter and idles a little rough, after about a minute it creaps up to 30 mpg at idle and runs fine...


My car was terrible on the ice we had this weekend, not bad in the snow though.
At idle, sitting still, read the little grey numbers on the guage, _not_ the white numbers. The grey numbers give a gallons per hour measure. Ar warmed-up engine tends to be around 0.5 gallons per hour at idle.

And no car is good on ice without studded tires or chains.

Aaron
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