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Ya remember growing up, hearing the term about cars, "blow it out", or how it has to be blown out now and then? Well I believe that term is correct, still to this day. Of course engines get nasty build up in low rpm city driving. Ya know how they've shown pictures of grungy valves, pistons, etc... Well, I drove the Passat several times (6/7) back and forth on a few hour weekly commute. Well, the first 2 or 3 times, it took exactly (x) amount of gas. I'm not one to figure my mileage exactly. I just don't think about it. But on the 3rd or 4th trip, I reached the destination with a quarter tank more gas left than the first 2/3. I just wrote it off as a kinda, wtf...kinda thing. Then I make the same trip the next Monday morning, and it was left holding the same amount of gas. I realized then that it flat out was getting more miles per gallon. by a decent little bit too. Every trip from there on out it got the same, which was better.
Then, I get this company truck. It's used. It's got a few years and miles under it's belt. But I'm relocated farther away too. So the first trip home with this truck, it went through 2 in-a-half tanks of gas. The next trip, it got a little farther on 2 tanks. Almost to the destination. I just get home yesterday. 1 tank and 3/4. I was in a state of holy shyt. That's a huge difference. But that might've been about what the Passat did too on that longer haul.
But isn't that something? I wouldn't believe it if you told me. At a difference like that, I woulda told you that the vehicle would've had to have been noticably running bad, but they both ran fine. The only noticable difference is the gas milage.
On the Passat, I thought it was because when we first got it, we ran regular through it for a couple months until I noticed the big bold stickers inside the fuel door that read (91 OCTANE OR BETTER ONLY) But, maybe it's the computer. Ya know what? Here's a conspiracy theory. Maybe they program the computers like that in production...to use more gas. They pass the EPA standards, then slowly adjust. Sorta like how a transmission will adjust to the driver. My granfather bought a brand new Toyota Corrola a few years back. First compact those 2 have ever owned. They got it for the mileage. I remember at Thanksgiving dinner, he told me that it got so many miles to the gallon when he first got it. Then when they started putting "that additive" in the fuel, that it got like 12 less miles per gallon. I just remember it being over 10. He thought it was because of the ethanol. I bet the computer does it. Also, that was the first brand new car they, the grandparents, had bought in over 2 deceades. since the 70s. but he knew that it got so many miles per gallon at first. Then, after just a few tanks, if I remember correctly, he said it got that much worse. I went through a little process of elimination with him too. About different gas, different brands, etc...he told me all variables were unchanged. except for "that additive they started puttting in the gas".
Thoughts?..comments...
Then, I get this company truck. It's used. It's got a few years and miles under it's belt. But I'm relocated farther away too. So the first trip home with this truck, it went through 2 in-a-half tanks of gas. The next trip, it got a little farther on 2 tanks. Almost to the destination. I just get home yesterday. 1 tank and 3/4. I was in a state of holy shyt. That's a huge difference. But that might've been about what the Passat did too on that longer haul.
But isn't that something? I wouldn't believe it if you told me. At a difference like that, I woulda told you that the vehicle would've had to have been noticably running bad, but they both ran fine. The only noticable difference is the gas milage.
On the Passat, I thought it was because when we first got it, we ran regular through it for a couple months until I noticed the big bold stickers inside the fuel door that read (91 OCTANE OR BETTER ONLY) But, maybe it's the computer. Ya know what? Here's a conspiracy theory. Maybe they program the computers like that in production...to use more gas. They pass the EPA standards, then slowly adjust. Sorta like how a transmission will adjust to the driver. My granfather bought a brand new Toyota Corrola a few years back. First compact those 2 have ever owned. They got it for the mileage. I remember at Thanksgiving dinner, he told me that it got so many miles to the gallon when he first got it. Then when they started putting "that additive" in the fuel, that it got like 12 less miles per gallon. I just remember it being over 10. He thought it was because of the ethanol. I bet the computer does it. Also, that was the first brand new car they, the grandparents, had bought in over 2 deceades. since the 70s. but he knew that it got so many miles per gallon at first. Then, after just a few tanks, if I remember correctly, he said it got that much worse. I went through a little process of elimination with him too. About different gas, different brands, etc...he told me all variables were unchanged. except for "that additive they started puttting in the gas".
Thoughts?..comments...
. If it runs better with higher octane, then it isn't liking something about the regular, period. I learned with my '98 Stang loaded down on a trip with 87oct in it when I hit the gas to pass with the A/C on and a full tank. That little tap was gone in the same scenario with just mid-grade. So, if I had to run mid-grade in my mod-motors, then why not go ahead and get a chip or programmer. Hence the Diablosport in my last pickup. and pick-up it did when I loaded the program to it. wow! That thing awoke from the dead.
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