SkeeterMark
Veteran Member
As far as I'm concerned, none of these claimed mileages or new readings after a fix are valid without a great deal more data. So far, no one has any details of their pre or post fix mileage other than some snippets in time.
I have detailed records since purchasing my car, covering 135,000 miles, all hand calculated from actual mileage and fill ups. I've also been tracking daily avg. temperature and using an average temperature for each tank. If I could accurately track wind speed, I'd do that, too, because temp and wind speed make as much a difference as driving conditions.
And for the record, yes, you can drive 80 mph and get 46-50mpg....in summer, on a plus 40 mile commute. It does not take any special driving skills. I routinely get 50 mpg in summer, and closer to 40-42 mpg in winter and have a life avg of around 46. That is from real data. I will be interested to see post fix results.
I can tell you right now people will be belly aching about mileage after the fix because as a lot of these get done we will be going into winter with colder temps and naturally lower mileage.
I suggest we not overreact until meaningful data can be collected.
I have detailed records since purchasing my car, covering 135,000 miles, all hand calculated from actual mileage and fill ups. I've also been tracking daily avg. temperature and using an average temperature for each tank. If I could accurately track wind speed, I'd do that, too, because temp and wind speed make as much a difference as driving conditions.
And for the record, yes, you can drive 80 mph and get 46-50mpg....in summer, on a plus 40 mile commute. It does not take any special driving skills. I routinely get 50 mpg in summer, and closer to 40-42 mpg in winter and have a life avg of around 46. That is from real data. I will be interested to see post fix results.
I can tell you right now people will be belly aching about mileage after the fix because as a lot of these get done we will be going into winter with colder temps and naturally lower mileage.
I suggest we not overreact until meaningful data can be collected.