MPG problems....
10-03-01, 03:08 PM
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Originally posted by mdw131
Its okay, the lease is up in a year....Ill just pick up a new GS. The next owner will get screwed.
Its okay, the lease is up in a year....Ill just pick up a new GS. The next owner will get screwed.
With that kind of ignorant attitude, I hope you get a lemon, bud.
10-03-01, 03:11 PM
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Originally posted by GlobeCLK
I don't know how you guys separate freeway consumption and street consumption..
I just get 1 reading. I usually have between 18~19mpg, about 35% street and 65% freeway.
I don't know how you guys separate freeway consumption and street consumption..
I just get 1 reading. I usually have between 18~19mpg, about 35% street and 65% freeway.
City (not much highway) - avg speed about 30 or less
and mpg is about 16.Highway - avg speed about 60 (some roadworks slowed me, most is nearer 80) and mpg is about 24.
10-03-01, 04:29 PM
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Originally posted by bitkahuna
Like father, like son?
Er, it was your Dad's before your sister got it. End of story.
With that kind of ignorant attitude, I hope you get a lemon, bud.
Like father, like son?
Er, it was your Dad's before your sister got it. End of story.
With that kind of ignorant attitude, I hope you get a lemon, bud.
About the RX...This was a year after my sister got the car and she had taken the car in for like 2 or 3 checks. That car wasnt abused really because my sister drove it often and she would take it in all the time to get serviced. My dad would get mad when i told him he needed to service the car. He only relented at 10000 and 20000 miles....
10-03-01, 08:29 PM
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gotta do service........ Lexus vehicles hardly break down, especially 1 or 2 years old. If the cars don't have problems........... hm............. could be owner's responsibilities?
It's cool if you say the car's regularily maintained and it still dies....... then it's the cars problem.
It's cool if you say the car's regularily maintained and it still dies....... then it's the cars problem.
10-03-01, 09:28 PM
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Originally posted by mdw131
I was kidding man....I always service my cars....
I was kidding man....I always service my cars....
10-04-01, 04:00 AM
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mdw, more thoughts on motor. Does it seem down on power??? If your Dad's interesting ideas on maintainance have truly fried this motor, all aspects of performance (mpg, horsepower, emissions) will be degraded simply because you'd be loosing compression in the cylinders. You could also ask the service guys to check compression in the cylinders. If no compression loss, then your city mpg is likely just due to an extreme amount of lowspeed stop and go.
Real world city mileage, especially, usually is 10-15% worse than the EPA number for almost any given car simply because our driving rarely coincides with the exact cycle used by them to determine "mileage". Your city driving (lots of short trips) sounds like it ought to be absolute worst case scenario for mileage.
And I, too, am glad to hear that you and your sister don't consider your father's ideas on this subject to be exemplary.
Real world city mileage, especially, usually is 10-15% worse than the EPA number for almost any given car simply because our driving rarely coincides with the exact cycle used by them to determine "mileage". Your city driving (lots of short trips) sounds like it ought to be absolute worst case scenario for mileage.
And I, too, am glad to hear that you and your sister don't consider your father's ideas on this subject to be exemplary.
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