Has anyone seen my mileage?

[Sport (no trac)]

For the period since I've owned my '01 Sport until right about Nov 15th (coincidentally, the same day I upgraded my tires to stock sized Pirelli Scorpion A/T) I was getting 17 - 20 in mixed driving. Since the 15th my mileage has plummeted to 12 - 14 in the same driving.

I live in New England (Boston area) and the only real issue I can think of (besides the cold starts) is oxygenated gasoline which usually rears it ugly head right about this time of year. The winter blend fuels changed the mileage in my last car (1995 v6 Contour 5-spd) from 320 miles per tank summer to 275 winter.

Has anyone else in New England had their mileage or anywhere else disappear recently? BTW, I haven't switched fuel grades, service stations or even pumps. I usually drive around town to 40MPH and 70 Highway.

 

[tbomb]

i dont know about your mileage, but the quote in your sig is funny as hell

 

[Sport (no trac)]

Thanks, T! I forget where I originally heard it, but I do remember laughing when I did.

Here's something funny: at this one firm I worked for I was participating in an e-mail discussion list and had the "Balls..." sig as sig #2 for my replies to the list. Of course, I had another with my creds, contact info, etc for professional correspondences. After I left that firm, a girl was assigned my computer after me and didn't bother to check all the signatures. She deleted the first one, the responsible one with my name, but didn't know about the second so the "Balls..." sig became her default sig that was automatically attached to her outgoing e-mails. I heard that she finally found about it after sending an e-mail to the brother in law of one of the firm's partners. Must have been pretty funny to be a fly on the wall that day! I'm laughing just thinking about it.

 

[DesertSpive]

Oxygenated Gasoline has a very large impact on fuel mileage. We see it out here in Cali all the time.

--Sean