Efficiency, oil changes

[clfitz@ns1.cwv.net]

> >I'd like to see what a good cross section is of fuel efficiency of people
> >on the list for their rocco's...
> 
> I'd also like to know what everyone else gets, so please post to the list,
> too!

Yeah, that's a good idea!  I'm intersted, too. . .I really haven't 
driven mine enough to know for sure, but with the second fill-up, it 
looked like about 30.  I'll let you know for sure next week.  (It's 
snowing like hell here now, so any mileage figures I could come up 
with would be badly skewed.)

				<SNIP>

> I checked the oil before I left last week,
> and I was like 3/4 of a quart over.  Besides from beating the shit out of
> my friend, what should I do?    I've already gone 2500 miles on the oil...

Well, if you've gone that far, I'd say go ahead and change the oil.  

> How for do you all go on your oil?

Well, I change mine roughly every 3,000, but I'm not a fanatic about 
it.  I firmly believe that oil is good for at least 7,500 miles.  I 
read an article in *Car and Driver* several years in which oil 
engineers stated that if you change it more often than that, you're 
wasting oil.  If the engineers, who definitely have a stake in your 
buying more oil, say that, I tend to believe them.  I just don't want 
to take chances (GRIN) so I change mine every 3K.

>  (I was doing 3500 on conventional...
> should I do longer on synthetic?

The last I read, synth oil was good for twice the mileage of 
conventional, but I don't use it, so I probably shouldn't comment.  
I'd go 6K, then change.

> Can you imagine the mileage I'd get if I drove normally?!

Yeah, but can you imagine the fun you'd miss?

Carlee
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