Did I just void my warranty?
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That is funny. Did your wife ever realize what you did to the rear hatch Mazda emblem too?
How do you get such a good mileage on your car? My wife only able to get around 24 MPG on average. We did get 26 at one time on a long trip. Ours is MT and it spins 3500 RPM at 70 MPH. Our short drive does not help much either.
How do you get such a good mileage on your car? My wife only able to get around 24 MPG on average. We did get 26 at one time on a long trip. Ours is MT and it spins 3500 RPM at 70 MPH. Our short drive does not help much either.
Yea, she thought it was cute, but it just didn't look right in the Church parking lot this morning, so I moved it to under the hood, does run like the devil now.(drive2)(drive2)
This one's an automatic and at 70, it's running ~2500 RPM, maybe that's why it's better, doesn't hurt that we live in the country. Everywhere we go is more than 20 miles one way.
Ha, my dad drives my '93 MX3 and called this morning after church ready to cuss about the car leaking coolant. LOL, it has like 250,000 miles on it. I got out the microfiche and walked him through the repair.
BTW, I thought the engine cover looked really cool. where are you going to show it off?
Although they may try to say it has. Looks good btw!Wishmaster
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He is using Imperial Gallons in his calculations instead of US Gallons... many people do this by accident (some do it on purpose!) and think they're getting better mileage than what is true... if you click through and look at this chart and convert it to US Gallons, his mileage is actually typical of everyone eles's Mazda 5.
Show me where I'm using Imp. gal, Ky uses qts. and gals, comes up the same on my calculator, or you're dreaming.
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Yep you're right Fuelly doesn't have the "other" gallons... sorry, have just seen it happen many, many times on many, many forums... bit jaded I guess as it was the first conclusion I jumped to! ... or maybe jealous??
With the MT, I think its abt 500 rpm for every 10 mph. I know its 4000 @ 85 mph, so, 3500 @ 75, 3000 @ 65, 2500 @ 55, and 2000 @ 45. Yeah, that seems right. So, all in all, if your neck of the woods is long 2-lanes roads w/no stops, and speeds of about 55, I bet 32+ mpg is pretty easy to acheive. Its when you have 200 mi of desert separating you from everything else, and 4 hours of nothing is too much to bear. That brings down your mpgs. We stopped using the 5 for inteerstate road trips b/c of the 5MT highway speed penalty. Last trip before I got too frustrated was 1800 ft elev climb over 240 mi @ 75 mph all on cruise. Still only got 24 mpg. My Accord 2.2L 4AT would have done that @ 26 mpg cruising at 3100 rpms max, and I imagine the 5AT would be just as efficient. BUT the 5MT shines in-town. I have never consistantly pulled 22-24 mpg before the Mz5. With the A/C off, and stoplights every 1/2 mi, even with short trips avg 4 mi, it still outperforms the Accord's 19 mpg. Turn the A/C on in the summer, tho, and mpgs begin to equalize.
Traded my M-i-L for her truck 1 day and she took it 30 mi home and 30 mi back with speeds of 45/55 and the needle hadn't even moved next time I was in it.
Traded my M-i-L for her truck 1 day and she took it 30 mi home and 30 mi back with speeds of 45/55 and the needle hadn't even moved next time I was in it.
