New record on MPG for me.

[CoastieCosta567]

Well so i had the wrong spark plugs installed a while back, there where 1/2 and inch longer then normal and so cuz of that, my Vx was running even more crappy and i didn't notice it. So i after killing my 6th cylender coil, and spending 240 bucks on a tow and 350 bucks for new spark plugs, dyno, tranny and engine inpection and a new freaken coil. My VX runs even better now. Today i toped My gas with 400 miles per full tank. Making it at 18 MPG, Weeeeeeeeeeeee I'm Happy . I went from 2 month ago having it at 250 miles per tank to 340 to now 400, yay.

[tomdietrying]

What kinda plugs did you buy?
Peace.
Tom
012009

[cyronman]

400?

Are you sure you cleared your odometer?!?!

[JHarris1385]

Thats awesome. You must have filled up with about a half gallon left in the tank.....

[CoastieCosta567]

i have the habit to always restart my trip meter everytime i fill up or just simply put gas. i'm so happy yay.

[So-CalVX]

I'm stuck in less-than-280-miles-per-tank-vill!
how the french can I get 18 MPG y'all?

[CoastieCosta567]

well ever sense i have had bad luck with things always braking down on me on my VX or just simply time to replace alot of parts, i have tend to get in to the habit of constently watching and hearing everything my VX does or sounds. so i keep with the maint... all the time, i check everything i can possebly think of like 2-3 times a week and replace anything small and cheap all the time to keep the emissions and fuel consumptions as low as possible. well Thats my secret, i guess thats what have been improving my MPG, if not then i don't know, but i just suggest just to take care of your VX like if it's a real baby and keep it up to date all the time. chance the oil, and fluids, check the pcv valve, intake, temp's on oils, also it depands alot in your driving, not accelerating to fast unless you have to, and stuff like that. thats my guess, there is more, i just can't think of what else i do, oh allways fill up you tank to full, thats another thing i do.

[crager34]

I'm stuck in less-than-280-miles-per-tank-vill!
how the french can I get 18 MPG y'all?

I went from around 280 per tank to over 300 with changing out my EGR valve. Some have just cleaned, but I swapped for new. However, now that I have a lift and bigger tires, I am back to sucking gas as fast as the Colorado river flows.

[snowtrooper1966]

400?

Are you sure you cleared your odometer?!?!

You, sir, crack me up!

James

[Pepino]

i have replaced everything i can and i still get around 250! cant get more than that

[crager34]

One of my company vehicles that I used, new, on the window sticker touted a whopping 25 mpg. I consistanly got 15 mpg. I called Ford and they said...

"25 mpg is just an estimate."



:madg:

[cyronman]

You, sir, crack me up!

James

i DID mean trip-ometer, but it looks like y'all knew that.

[nfpgasmask]

Sooner or later I am going to buy a new EGR myself. I want to see if it helps oil consumption as well...

Bart

[VehiGAZ]

Tom, SoCal, Pepino, Cyronman, et alia, you (and I) live in the wrong state to get good gas mileage. We have to pump reformulated gas into our tanks, which returns lower mileage. Coastie gets the good stuff in central Florida - pure, conventional, non-reformulated, non-oxygenated gasoline! Lucky duck!

I fill up on conventional gas in VT and upstate NY whenever possible, and I have seen as high as around 18.3 mpg on the good gas (driving like an old lady after getting 2 speeding tickets within 10 miles of each other on Rt 7 in VT!). Now, I personally have never put 22 gallons into the tank (I'm sputtering before that), but 400 miles per tank is entirely feasible at 18.5 mpg (that's a 21.6 gal fill-up), especially in Florida, where the biggest hills Coastie has to climb are highway overpasses.

I think this topic of conventional vs reformulated gas has become my official soapbox rant.

[Ascinder]

What plugs coastie? How did you know the old ones were too long?