#97 you don't wash your car
#97 you don't wash your car because you know if you want to move it that will require starting the car and loosing gas.( I haven't washed my car since last year. I wait for the rain to wash it.)
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#98 you use google maps to
#98 you use google maps to find the shortest route possible and at the same time waste less gas.
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99 when fuel efficency
99 when fuel efficency begins to affect your grades... :(
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100. You purposely looked for and bought a Metro.
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I have always liked metros.
I have always liked metros. When I was in 5th grade I remember telling my mom she should by a metro. I have always liked small underpowered cars (until I felt the need for speed, age 17-20).
101. You look at cars in the parking lot and determine where areodynamics could be improved. 102. You look at cars in the parking lot and to determine what car has the lowest drag coefficient. 103. You have recived a ticket for rolling through a stop sign. |
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103 is kinda of general.
#104 You get pulled over for gliding 30mph in a 40mph zone and the cop thinks you're high. |
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This soulds like a job for a "get-out-of-jail-free-card" ... A GasSavers.org membership ID card! ;) |
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...and #92 was for fun -- my friend wanted to try it out and we wanted to see who could drive more efficiently -- so there :P |
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105 you check other tires and examine their pressure and the max pressure that tire can support. Then you dream about "I wonder what kind of mielage I can get in that." |
#106 You get so accustomed
#106 You get so accustomed to driving slow that it makes you nervous to go 60 mph.
#107 When there is lots of traffic and everyone else is bumper to bumper you leave 10 car lengths between you and the car in front of you. #108 When there is no traffic you are riding the bumper of the only other car on the road. |
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110. when you put the
110. when you put the shifter into N, release the hand brake and then open your left door. With your strong left shifter foot you move the car out of the parking stall in reverse and then set up the car properly before I key on so that all I have to do is in 1st and just go!
With high tire pressure (more than 55 psi), a 2400 pound car is easy to push with your left leg I find forwards or backwards. No more reverse for me unless I have to push agaist a hill which for sure I"ll lose and the car will roll into the opposite direction! If you can push agaist the hill your truly a FE god... |
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You should go by the one finger rule.
If you cannot push your car with one finger, there is a lot of room for improvement on your tire rolling resistance, wheel bearings, alignment, and/or transmission in regards to efficiency. |
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111. You consider taking out your $1,200 sound system so the alternator runs less.
112. Plan on spending $500 for a head swap to Vtec-E. 113. Get a ticket for speeding after spring break, and vow to never speed again. 114. Tell mom that you can't follow the speed limit and go 10 under when she is late for a dinner date with a college friend. 115. Show up to a dinner reservation 10 minutes late and find mom's friend finished eating...and responded, I had to keep my FE. 116. Explained bump-starting to company at the dinner table. 117. Surrounded in a town where everybody drives trucks...pull up to a gas pump and notice a $120 dollar fill up, and look at your tank fill to $21 dollars. Then smugly continue on your way. |
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118. While turning around on a three point turn you drive up bumps and curbs and lawns to roll back down without having to shift into reverse.
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119. You look at #83 to be a challenge. Then you go to your inclined carport, and put it in reverse with clutch in, wait for a little momentum, and then let the clutch out, and scream in joy when the car starts up with no jerkiness. - then in pure joy, you come back to the website and type as quickly as you can to tell everybody that it is possible to bump start in reverse! |
120. You get in your car and
120. You roll your car backwards down your driveway into the street, then turn, stop, and let it roll forwards down the hill w/o any gas. You finally pop-start it just before you get to the stop sign 1/4 mile from from your house.
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121. You drill holes in the trunk to reduce the car's weight.
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122. You regard such things as "carpet", "passenger side mirror", "interior", and anything else that possesses "extra weight" as an infectious disease that came with the car and must be "cured".
123. You check your MPG every fillup, the old fashioned way (miles traveled/gallons from full tank to full tank) <--- sorry I have obd0 and am spiteful 124. You become physically ill at the site of a Hummer (H1, H2, or H3, doesn't matter) doing anything, anywhere, at any speed, even if parked, period |
125. You can tell by your gas gauge how much fuel you got to 0.3 gallon accuracy.
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126. You are up at 1:30 AM when you have work in the morning and you need to leave in 6 hours. Yet you still keep reading through the old threads only to post a snide comment like this one to one-up everyone else!
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127. You can't leave this thread alone. You just have to add just one more tweak.
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128. i successfully bump started in reverse whoo! Now my 12 volt can live longer. I just had to be a bit more careful to the clutch and listen to the engine (apparently when holding the clutch in while rolling in reverse i hear the car making the reverse sound but the engine isn't on!) making sure my key is in IGIII and then clutch to friction point.... feel it! grip it! and it comes alive!!!!it was smooth too! BOO YAH!
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Phil, you are a true freak to have done that! :D :p
129. A Chevy Sprint, 3-cylinder, automatic, driven by a 60+ year-old man actually out-accelerates you...:eek: (it happened today - however I did catch him since he only hit 60 km/h in the 70 km/h zone :p ). |
130. You agree to spend $497 on a set of LRR Bridgestone 381's and the wheels to put them on when your all-seasons are still in perfectly good shape. I'll keep the all-season's for winter.
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131: You don't use the car's starter anymore, you need all that extra juice for the EOC! Even if it means getting out of your car in a public parking lot, pushing your car for 1 or 2 mph and then quickly bump starting in reverse whoo!!!
If i can get away without using my starter I will, now I can make my 12 volt last even longer! Take that nay sayers! |
132: When you have your dashboard all torn up and you cannot seem to get it back together because your constantly fiddeling with trying to change the wiring or something, so you can "try" some idea out!!!
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133) Someone asks you how fast you were driving, and you answer, "oh, about 75 US mpg."
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134) You search for ways to introduce fuel effeciency into the conversation with non mpg concerned friends who are talking about something totally unrelated.
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When your driving your car around thinking oh, I'm getting pretty good mileage and then you come to the web site and you all of these vehicles getting great mileage and so you keep trying to figure out what to fiddle with, next.
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Gary please use numbering system.
Since Gary's was 135, I'll be 136. 136)You sell a 4 door automatic to almost double your mpg with a 2 door manual. P.S. I'm working on doubling it so the 7mpg difference is only for a short time. |
136 sounds more like something someone with common sense would do, dunno if it qualifies.
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I will try to remember to number them, in the future.
On 136, I think Compaq's point is that he had a nice comfortable car that got good mileage, but once he got involved in gas saver's, he decided that his car just wasn't good enough and so he went through the hassle to unload it and find something more acceptable. I don't think he'd have probably done that if it weren't for gassaver's. |
I guess that's true, I guessssss.
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