Re: Fuel mileage

["Allyn" <amalventano1@home.com>]

List,
Hrm, the Reiger gets about 330 miles on a tank hwy, 290 or so in the city.
Does pretty decent for its wide kit and 11" wide wheels.
I think the FN helps it out, keeps revs down, especially on highway.
Al

Allyn Malventano, ETC(SS), USN
87 Rieger GTO Scirocco 16v (daily driver, 170k, rocco #6) running - for now
87 Jetta 8v Wolfsburg 2dr (daily driver, 260k, 0 rattles, original clutch,
driveshafts, wheels :)


----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave Ewing" <rabbit16v@prodigy.net>
To: "Scirocco List" <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2001 3:57 PM
Subject: Re: Fuel mileage


> The top half of the gauge commonly goes slower than the bottom half.  I
> think the tanks are actually bigger on top than bottom too!  But other
than
> that, I have had gas gauges that look really funky and show the top half
> being like almost two thirds of the size of the bottom half of the gauge,
> sometimes meaning that you might THINK it is half a tank but is actually
> 3/4s.  I don't know if this makes sense to anyone but if the tank IS
bigger
> on top then bottom (clearanced for rear beam or something) then the gauge
> would have to be equally matched where the top part of the gauge is
actually
> 3/4s of a tank, not 1/2 tank.  I have actually seen this on some VWs!
>
> Chris DeLong, how is your Scirocco gas mileage?
>
> Dave
>
> > All Patrick wanted to know is "how much is a half-tank of gas?"  That's
a
> > pretty imprecise unit of measurement.....   You aren't the only one to
do
> > this, by the way.
> > Shrug it off.  If I know PB, no offense was intended.
> >
> > peace.
> >
> > Larry  sandiego16V
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Monster [mailto:monster@aros.net]
> > Sent: Monday, November 26, 2001 5:29 PM
> > To: Patrick Bureau
> > Cc: scirocco-l@scirocco.org
> > Subject: Re: Fuel milage
> >
> >
> > All I asked was was it normal.  I dont know how many gallons of gas is
at
> > half. All I do is fill it up and I just looked atthe trip meter and it
> said
> > 258 and the gas gauge was at 1/2.  And I'm NOT going to stick anything
in
> > the tank trying to figure out if the gauge is right or if I have exactly
> > HALF a tank of gas.
> > You wanna see the immission papers got to the cars website and see it.
> > Sheesh!
> > Http://www.tekworxonline.com/monster/car
> >
> >
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