Thread: 13 mpg average?
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Old 03-31-2009, 03:31 PM
bleedinfordblue bleedinfordblue is offline
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Location: Peterborough, ON , Canada
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yeah i really do not like ethanol here in Canada the fed mandated the same 10%.... most stations were putting 5 to 7 into the regular fuel anyway... Spending way more time hanging around my Mechanics than i need to... free coffee.. I have scene what ethanol and crap gas can do to an engine.
I have been running premium, branded fuel through mine since I got it 91 octane no ethanol Esso is the norm ... its exxon down south .
Recently I decide that i would do a test of fuels to see if it was worth the extra 40 cents a gallon i have to pay for 91. What I have found has been very interesting. I found that the 87 oct bilge wash form the discount fuel company down the road ( Pioneer usually about 10 cents a gallon cheep the esso) I got an atrocious 10.8 mpg on winter grade with mixed driving and not being an idiot
The last tank of esso on the other hand yielded a much more respectable 17 mpg mixed driving... (some of that was sideways through fields i may have forgot about the test) on what is still winter grade fuel. So it is defiantly work the extra for the good fuel on a 500 mile journey I SAVE $37.6.!!!!! I think its worth it

The best millage by far has been on a long drive to Northern Ontario I had driven (near as makes the difference) 475 miles on 17 gallons ..... 28MPG ( I'm not lying) that was with a bed cover and driving about 55-57 mph all the time, on summer fuel not to shabby.

you guys had better appreciate all the conversions i had to do to write this

Last edited by bleedinfordblue; 03-31-2009 at 03:53 PM.
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