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my car is weirder than ever

Discussion in '8G Lancer - General Information' started by sunstealth, Oct 21, 2008.

  1. sunstealth

    sunstealth Well-Known Member

    i just did 1005 kilometers on a thank of gas in the hills of charlevoix,quebec. went to the mitsu dealer after comming back home and asked whats the normal mileage of these cars and they told me 500 to 600 kilometres on a tank, is my car not normal in some ways ?

    btw it was on 16" winter tires inflated to 31 psi (i normally run my sommer 18" at 40 psi)
     
    sunstealth, Oct 21, 2008
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  2. Mitsu008

    Mitsu008 Well-Known Member

    how slow u drive? lol
     
    Mitsu008, Oct 21, 2008
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  3. roxygts

    roxygts Member

    :lol: :lol:
     
    roxygts, Oct 21, 2008
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  4. sunstealth

    sunstealth Well-Known Member

    i was going between 100 to 115 on the flat highway, down to 50 at 4300 rpm in 4th or 3rd gear on some 13% hills

    all speed denominative are in kilometers hour!
     
    sunstealth, Oct 21, 2008
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  5. TheGrub

    TheGrub Active Member

    Wow... 2.4l or the 2.0l engine ?
    My last tank coming back from Florida this summer was 750km on my 09 GTS (2.4l engine) at 120km/h avg and thought it was pretty good !!! But 1000km seems amazing !!!!!!!!

    Did you go down hill all the time or up and down ?
     
    TheGrub, Oct 21, 2008
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  6. DragnRidr85

    DragnRidr85 Well-Known Member

    yea you can get pretty good milage if you try with this car. I have an 08 gts and and my record so far has been 39mpg highway (yes miles) by cruising at 60mph behind a truck to reduce some drag =)

    best tank capacity i've gotten is about 490 miles/tank from my road trip (NJ to FL and back)
     
    DragnRidr85, Oct 21, 2008
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  7. TheGrub

    TheGrub Active Member

    Yeah.. that's about 780km.... around what i did with my 09 GTS... but 1000km is almost 1/4 more !!!
     
    TheGrub, Oct 21, 2008
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  8. sunstealth

    sunstealth Well-Known Member

    it was up and down hill on the ride
    and i have a 2.0L engine. and yeah it seems like too amazing to be true
    i like cannot believe the numbers.

    it's like 5.8 litres per 100 kilometres and the car projected mileage is 7.0 litres per 100 kms on highway use (i had a mixed type driving pretty much like city and highway use because of the mountains calling for around 9.7 L per 100 kms)

    logically i should have done around 8,5 L per 100 km
     
    sunstealth, Oct 21, 2008
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  9. lordayne

    lordayne Well-Known Member

    it is because of the down hills. it takes no gas to do that, and not as much as you would think to go up them. on the flat you wont get that kind of mileage. I have run into that before.
     
    lordayne, Oct 21, 2008
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  10. mikeike8

    mikeike8 Well-Known Member

    thats pretty impressive... do u have any mods installed?.. cuz after i installed my mods it felt like the engine didnt have to work as hard (on flat surfaces) to keep the same speed as before... and in turn i started getting better gas mileage :)
     
    mikeike8, Oct 25, 2008
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  11. papi2dmamis

    papi2dmamis Well-Known Member

    After intake and exhaust mods and switching from 16" to 18" I'm doing about 31 to 33 MPG, and this car supposed to do 30 on the highway. :wav:
     
    papi2dmamis, Oct 25, 2008
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  12. sunstealth

    sunstealth Well-Known Member

    well i got my 16 back on hab 18's for the summer

    I have a green performance air filter and synthetic oil in the engine thats it, i removed my axleback because i had a leak!
     
    sunstealth, Oct 25, 2008
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  13. papi2dmamis

    papi2dmamis Well-Known Member

    I did forgot to mention that I also run on syntetic oil.
     
    papi2dmamis, Oct 25, 2008
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  14. mikeike8

    mikeike8 Well-Known Member

    wow thats pretty impressive then.. ive been trying to see what the best mileage i can get with my car on my way to school but the best i ever got was 34.6mpg... which still isnt too bad cuz considering on the sticker it says were supposed to get 29mpg
     
    mikeike8, Oct 26, 2008
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