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Old Dec 21, 2007 | 03:00 PM
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So I took a little 90mi highway cruise last night. I followed my "treat it like a baby" break in period in hopes of getting some better gas milage in the long run. It looks like it might have paid off. I was pretty impressed by the 27.3mpg for the trip. Not too shabby..would you say??
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Old Dec 21, 2007 | 03:04 PM
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Originally Posted by ryanrohaley
So I took a little 90mi highway cruise last night. I followed my "treat it like a baby" break in period in hopes of getting some better gas milage in the long run. It looks like it might have paid off. I was pretty impressed by the 27.3mpg for the trip. Not too shabby..would you say??
very nice! what does your "treatment" entail? I'm interested.
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Old Dec 21, 2007 | 03:20 PM
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Originally Posted by ryanrohaley
So I took a little 90mi highway cruise last night. I followed my "treat it like a baby" break in period in hopes of getting some better gas milage in the long run. It looks like it might have paid off. I was pretty impressed by the 27.3mpg for the trip. Not too shabby..would you say??
see my picture in the other MPG thread, over 30 mpg ... did not follow breakin period exactly
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<<So I took a little 90mi highway cruise last night. I followed my "treat it like a baby" break in period in hopes of getting some better gas milage in the long run. It looks like it might have paid off. I was pretty impressed by the 27.3mpg for the trip. Not too shabby..would you say??>>

I think it's about what we can expect. I took a 40 mile drive by interstate last saturday and zeroed out the "after start" readout once I was on the freeway and the mileage for that distance was 27.6.
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