Thread: What did you do to your Car today?

Scotty....whats your car get mpg wise? I think you might have me beat.
Filled up after work and figured it to 15 mpg. 172 miles and 11.xx gallons.
She's a thirsty girl

I get 9 in the city with my truck now thats it's winter.

I'm quickly learning that the V8 doesn't like to sit and run much. Much happier out on the road.
It's just been so cold, I hate to not let it warm up for a few before I leave.

Let it warmup for a few. It's the temperature change that's giving you the worse gas mileage. I do 100% city, short trips. I get very different gas mileage in the summer vs winter. I can pull off 19 mpg city in the summer, but only 13-14 in the winter. Nothing but temperature and a little warmup time changes in the winter.

I let it run, try to for at least 5 while I brush teeth and such.
Oh well....winter doesn't last that long... lol



I hate the cold tho. Brrrrrrrr. -21 with the windchill. -2 real temp. It's not supposed to get above 0 real temp here until late afternoon tomorrow.

Scott refuses to check actual from what I think he's said. His DIC says something like 15-16 on a good day. I only know because I joke around with him that mine is up in the 23-24 range usually.

got my alignment re done for like the 5 th time today. warranty's rule. so far it seems much better then before.

also helped a friend install a new circulation pump on his furnace. what fun that was. of course every valve we touched either failed to turn off or leaked when open lol did some of that turn it back in a bit and it would stop leaking. had to play with 2 valves.

the fun one was the water supply it never shut off 100% and then the drain line valve refused to seal when off. old crap i tell ya.


bill it hit 9 mpg the other day, but it was cold and i was having some fun lol then again, it did rise to 20 for a while then i hit the local BS again and back to 14 lol

Got my replacement alarm in the mail today and ordered injectors, hoping to get rid of my damned negative LTFTs. If the injectors don't fix it, I guess my FPR is up on the chopping block? I need to check fuel pressure, O'rielly's never has the damned tool in stock to rent though. I hate small towns sometimes.

Noticed my left HID bulb is more yellow than the right side. Not sure whats up with that. Going to give it another month to break in before I start buying Morimoto Ballasts and asking for replacement bulbs.

Some stuff came in today....

remote started mine. I'm happy my fobs been working

Factory remote start.....

Interior work

Originally Posted by danielle15

Scotty....whats your car get mpg wise? I think you might have me beat.
Filled up after work and figured it to 15 mpg. 172 miles and 11.xx gallons.
She's a thirsty girl

with all my congested driving i do it hit like 9 the other day, but i was beating on it. then the next day i was doing some highway driving and it hit 20 on its own. back to the local crap same day and it went to its home spot at 14 and change lol

after a short warm up and local driving today it dropped to 13 now.


I WIN! lol

Originally Posted by bobc455

Did you take any pictures of the install? How difficult of a job would you say it was?

Originally Posted by Below Average Joe

Factory remote start.....

^this

Originally Posted by Scottydoggs

with all my congested driving i do it hit like 9 the other day, but i was beating on it. then the next day i was doing some highway driving and it hit 20 on its own. back to the local crap same day and it went to its home spot at 14 and change lol

after a short warm up and local driving today it dropped to 13 now.


I WIN! lol

Lol. Mine went down to 12 yesterday. But its back up to 16ish today I think.
Poor girl doesn't like the cold and needs a bath bad.