The holy grail! Base Canadian Mirage with no options: no AC, manual locks (no remote), wind-up rear windows, manual HVAC settings, no cruise, etc. Yet another cheap, used scratch 'n' dent special with high kms for its age (174k).
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Colour: Frigidaire White. A littlle banged up, with rust creeping around the edges.
Front carpet: 50% sodium chloride
Aftermarket bluetooth thingy!
Stiff clutch pedal.
Yes. Possible fubar rear axle.
Stock Enasaves in decent shape. Two are much newer, so I will have to investigate rear axle alignment.
I was very happy to see that Mirage #3 has 70 in it.
I cracked 70 a few times Mirage #2 as well. Its final tank was 78 MPG (made possible by much pulse & glide and alternator-off motoring - something I don't generally do).
We've passed the peak of warm weather though, so that might be it for eye-popping numbers for this year. Depends how much I drive the car in the next month or so. Next fill probably won't be until mid-late October.
So I haven't been driving the Mirage an awful lot -- I filled up this week for the first time since September.
Results:
62 MPG = 3.8 L/100 km, over 608 km = 378 miles.
I was mostly driving the $#!%box Miata until early November, and since then I've only gone one one little roadtrip. A good chunk of my local trips are human-powered, and when I'm doing errands for my folks I usually use their Soul.
I've also scaled back the coroplast craziness for the winter. I put on smaller rear wheel skirts after I changed over to my winter wheels/tires. Will post a pic shortly...
Last week I did the 2nd bit of maintenance since I got this car 2 years ago: front brake pads.
(First maintenance item was preventive replacement of the clutch cable earlier this summer.)
The inner pad on the driver's side was worn down nearly to the metal. (Passenger side wasn't quite as bad.) Probably because it was stuck in the caliper, so it wasn't floating/releasing properly.
I just filled up at 70 MPG / 3.3 L/100 km. That's the third 70 (or better) tank in a row since the weather warmed up!
Last week I did the 2nd bit of maintenance since I got this car 2 years ago: front brake pads.
(First maintenance item was preventive replacement of the clutch cable earlier this summer.)
The inner pad on the driver's side was worn down nearly to the metal. (Passenger side wasn't quite as bad.) Probably because it was stuck in the caliper, so it wasn't floating/releasing properly.
I just filled up at 70 MPG / 3.3 L/100 km. That's the third 70 (or better) tank in a row since the weather warmed up!
70 MPG with sticking brake calipers! It may only get better!
I doubt this is any kind of record, but in the nearly 4 years I've had the Blueberry, and 33,500 miles, I haven't touched the brakes (as far as maintenance).
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View my fuel log 2020 Mirage ES 1.2 manual: 42.4 mpg (US) ... 18.0 km/L ... 5.5 L/100 km ... 50.9 mpg (Imp)
I couldn't get away with that around here (rust belt). On an older car, got to grease the caliper sliders & pad contact points annually or (as you see) they rust in place and cause all kinds of problems.
I doubt this is any kind of record, but in the nearly 4 years I've had the Blueberry, and 33,500 miles, I haven't touched the brakes (as far as maintenance).
Winter roads & salt are a whole different story. Having said that my 2000 Honda CR-V had 154,000 miles on it when I was rear ended in 2013. The factory brakes hadn't been touched, and my CR-V brakes worked much better than the brakes of the vehicle (Chevy Tahoe) that rear ended me.
I couldn't get away with that around here (rust belt). On an older car, got to grease the caliper sliders & pad contact points annually or (as you see) they rust in place and cause all kinds of problems.
My Forester brakes suffered an early death, because it sits too much. Rust is tough on them!