Originally Posted by
MetroMPG
Your commute is 0.8 miles each way?? Is your bicycle broken?
Just kidding.
Seriously, though: no car is going to get its EPA rated fuel economy from a cold start in a drive of 0.8 miles. Fuel consumption is significantly worse before the car reaches full operating temperature -- not just the engine coolant, but transmission oil, bearings, tires too. All of those things have to reach peak, stable running temperature before a car is delivering its maximum fuel economy.
It's likely you'll end up with a better fuel economy reading, but you may burn more fuel overall. Only way to tell is compare both routes and record/crunch the numbers.
lol, yeah .8 miles each way but it's Uphill both ways (<-Sarcasm)
i used to walk up the hill before i had a car out here and having to hall all my equipment up that 25% grade hill at 6 am is no fun.
i've been reading that the 0w-20 oil is a little better than most and that small engines tend to warm up quicker because of the smaller volume of coolant.
i'm going to start combining my morning trip so i can drop my wife of at work first and then climb the hill after which should probably help out the car.
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View my fuel log 2014 Mirage ES 1.2 automatic: 54.7 mpg (US) ... 23.3 km/L ... 4.3 L/100 km ... 65.7 mpg (Imp)