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    Double your gas mileage!!

    Ride a motorcycle!!

    However, if you change out your front wheel bearings maybe you will immediatly see a 2 - 3 MPG increase like it did.

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    Quote Originally Posted by crager34 View Post
    Ride a motorcycle!!

    However, if you change out your front wheel bearings maybe you will immediatly see a 2 - 3 MPG increase like it did.
    Before/after #'s?
    2001 Ebony VX and 1989 Custom 383 Corvette

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    Quote Originally Posted by 89Vette View Post
    Before/after #'s?
    I'm pretty sure he meant that he got better mileage BEFORE...

    I mean...why else post the results...

    Quote Originally Posted by crager34 View Post
    maybe you will immediatly see a 2 - 3 MPG increase like it did.

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    I was shocked about how consistant I was at 15 MPH city and highway. Quite literally, two days after the wheel bearing change out.... 17. The only change were the bearings. Two days later and I am sitting at 1/2 tank with 175 miles on the OD.




    Quote Originally Posted by 89Vette View Post
    Before/after #'s?

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    How about half a tank 190 miles?






    Quote Originally Posted by crager34 View Post
    I was shocked about how consistant I was at 15 MPH city and highway. Quite literally, two days after the wheel bearing change out.... 17. The only change were the bearings. Two days later and I am sitting at 1/2 tank with 175 miles on the OD.

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    Quote Originally Posted by blacksambo View Post
    How about half a tank 190 miles?
    And we all appreciate you posting...once again...that you have the absolute best mileage ever...experienced...by anyone...living in the VX solar system...

    Can't even BEGIN to tell ya...

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    Hey, I thought *I* had the best gas mileage ever! During my trip to/from Moab I saw a low of 8.4 on Fins & Things and a high of 20.8 on the highway.

    I still can't believe how good gas mileage can be when my VX doesn't have to work against that stupid, constant, obnoxious Oklahoma crosswind - my worst mileage on the highway during my trip was within the OK borders (15.7). Heck, I got 15.2 during the run through La Sal Pass (including the highway time there and back, of course.)


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    Quote Originally Posted by RickOKC View Post
    Hey, I thought *I* had the best gas mileage ever! During my trip to/from Moab I saw a low of 8.4 on Fins & Things and a high of 20.8 on the highway.

    I still can't believe how good gas mileage can be when my VX doesn't have to work against that stupid, constant, obnoxious Oklahoma crosswind - my worst mileage on the highway during my trip was within the OK borders (15.7). Heck, I got 15.2 during the run through La Sal Pass (including the highway time there and back, of course.)
    I got similar mileage around Moab. When I filled up when I reached Moab I got my best tank of the trip @ 20 MPG. For the 150 miles total I drove while in Moab and on the trails I got a whopping 7 MPG.

    Smiles per gallon however, were the best I've ever gotten and that's what counts in Moab!

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    LOL, I have never check mpg on the trail...I know it won't make me any happier to know.
    95 Trooper with a buncha stuff nobody here cares about...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ldub View Post
    And we all appreciate you posting...once again...that you have the absolute best mileage ever...experienced...by anyone...living in the VX solar system...

    Can't even BEGIN to tell ya...


    I'm glad you are so happy.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ldub View Post
    And we all appreciate you posting...once again...that you have the absolute best mileage ever...experienced...by anyone...living in the VX solar system...

    Can't even BEGIN to tell ya...
    does 17 mpg seem all that unreasonable for a vx? I was getting 15 if i took it easy, and that doesnt include calculating for the bigger tires, I could have been round 16mpg.

    (190/11=17.3)
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    Quote Originally Posted by blacksambo View Post
    I'm glad you are so happy.
    Quote Originally Posted by pbkid View Post
    does 17 mpg seem all that unreasonable for a vx? I was getting 15 if i took it easy, and that doesnt include calculating for the bigger tires, I could have been round 16mpg.

    (190/11=17.3)
    N-k........

    But I don't recall using the word happy, or unreasonable, in my post...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ldub View Post
    N-k........

    But I don't recall using the word happy, or unreasonable, in my post...
    Ahhh, damn semantics...

    Man I really dont miss that 5mpg loss between my vx and my runner. :P

    Hows that for incredible mileage? 20 mpg with 4 doors and a whole buncha steel and rubber wrapped around it

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ldub View Post
    N-k........

    But I don't recall using the word happy, or unreasonable, in my post...

    But.... a picture is worth a thousand words

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    Knowing how notoriously un-accurate our fuel gauges are, I wouldn't get all excited until you fill up to confirm the usage.

    PK
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    I can't even get into my own pants!!

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