My gas milage stinks

SuperK · Post by **SuperK** » November 7th, 2006, 5:21 am

yooo might have filthy injectors, ya know.
Have you run some cleaner through it? Like a nice bottle of Techron or Lucas injector cleaner?
Ya might need ta pull them out and clean 'em, or get them rebuilt.
I get no less than 28MPG in my RS DOHC in city, and I do some... fun driving

ariesdude · Post by **ariesdude** » November 7th, 2006, 1:48 pm

Another unlikely scenario that happened to me and reduced my gas mileage a lot - sticky handbrake and corroded calipers. The brake pads were held uneven because of the calipers and the hand brake spring was not releasing as much - so i was driving with the brakes on all the time - but it still gave me 24MPG - once i cleared the problem - it jumped to 30.

94blaze1.6 · Post by **94blaze1.6** » November 7th, 2006, 2:43 pm

ariesdude wrote:Another unlikely scenario that happened to me and reduced my gas mileage a lot - sticky handbrake and corroded calipers. The brake pads were held uneven because of the calipers and the hand brake spring was not releasing as much - so i was driving with the brakes on all the time - but it still gave me 24MPG - once i cleared the problem - it jumped to 30.

You know what, I was thinking about that actually, The same thing happened on my 86 Accord. I definatly need to look into this...

SpikeDerailed · Post by **SpikeDerailed** » November 8th, 2006, 9:08 pm

On my SOHC MTX MX-3 I was getting around 280-300mi per tank during city driving.

R.I.P MX-3 9/27/06

P.S. This is prolly one of the last times Ill be on the site. For some reason it will never let me log in, the username and password is correct but when I log in it will just say in logged out. Problem happens on multiple computers from multiple I.P addresses.