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My wife has just returned from a week trundling round Northumberland in our 'Aunt Sally' ... 3.0 2nd gen dark green beast!
It has been serviced. It got 2 new batteries. It has a nice fresh MOT face on view. It's had it's timing belt replaced. You name it, it's been checked. I power washed it and gave it a nice waxing..
So off goes 'the beast' .... reliably transports there and back. (It did return with a slight noise on the power steering and a little leak, but that to be dealt with in another thread). Aunt Sally returns covered in filth so I washes it and polishes it and fills it up with diesel. Does the calculations ........... 480miles .... 54.45litres Hmmm, that means OMG ... 40mpg!!! Balls, damn it and blast! There I was thinking it managing 25mpg while driving through the snow and slush, instead it must have been 15mpg, and no way is a 3.0l turbo going to return 40mpg on a nice meander!
Sob sob, no more being smug. I can only presume the mpg is kpg ... .Today we going out for a drive. She in mpg Mitsubishi and me in the kpg Beast. Today we will prove once and for all the accuracy. Ok, I hear you say, you know already that it's kpg but, and I like 'buts' .... whereas I thought the beast had done 172646 miles it has in fact only done about 108,000 miles - ---
anyone want to buy a nice dark green low mileage SURF ?
Actually, before you make an offer, wifey has fallen in love with Aunt Sally and I doubt you got enough money ...
It has been serviced. It got 2 new batteries. It has a nice fresh MOT face on view. It's had it's timing belt replaced. You name it, it's been checked. I power washed it and gave it a nice waxing..
So off goes 'the beast' .... reliably transports there and back. (It did return with a slight noise on the power steering and a little leak, but that to be dealt with in another thread). Aunt Sally returns covered in filth so I washes it and polishes it and fills it up with diesel. Does the calculations ........... 480miles .... 54.45litres Hmmm, that means OMG ... 40mpg!!! Balls, damn it and blast! There I was thinking it managing 25mpg while driving through the snow and slush, instead it must have been 15mpg, and no way is a 3.0l turbo going to return 40mpg on a nice meander!
Sob sob, no more being smug. I can only presume the mpg is kpg ... .Today we going out for a drive. She in mpg Mitsubishi and me in the kpg Beast. Today we will prove once and for all the accuracy. Ok, I hear you say, you know already that it's kpg but, and I like 'buts' .... whereas I thought the beast had done 172646 miles it has in fact only done about 108,000 miles - ---
anyone want to buy a nice dark green low mileage SURF ?
Actually, before you make an offer, wifey has fallen in love with Aunt Sally and I doubt you got enough money ...
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