How to go from 11.7 mpg to 5.9 mpg in 1 hour - Diesel Forum

robert_ross · 11-29-2001, 06:59 PM

This is really more of a "how dumb can you get?" post.

My console was displaying current MPG, and it was hovering around 11.4. One of my kids was 'borrowing' a CD from my player, and without mentioning it to me, played with the button so the console was displaying "miles left to go" instead, which just happened to be 117.

Next morning, I didn't notice the change (or the missing "." after the "11"), so I'm still thinking (seeing) MPG, and I was pretty happy because my mileage had gone up to 11.7 [img]images/icons/wink.gif[/img]

However, half-way to work, my MPG had dropped to 9.8, and then on the way home with a couple of stops it dropped all the way to 5.9 MPG while on the freeway [img]images/icons/crazy.gif[/img]

I was getting panicky - even considering stopping to check for gas leaking out of my new gas tank...all before I finally realized what had happened [img]images/icons/shocked.gif[/img]

Nothing like that "I feel SO stupid" feeling!

outpost22 · 11-29-2001, 07:27 PM

Yeah, well at least you didn't drive 5 hours and stay overnight in a Hotel for a meeting the next day which just happened to be NEXT week not THIS week [img]images/icons/mad.gif[/img] [img]images/icons/mad.gif[/img] [img]images/icons/mad.gif[/img] [img]images/icons/crazy.gif[/img] [img]images/icons/crazy.gif[/img] [img]images/icons/crazy.gif[/img]

RedV10 · 11-29-2001, 09:34 PM

I've got a friend who is fond of changing my console to read liters/100 kilometers when I'm not looking. It momentarily confuses me every time.
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I think he's just jealous that my big red SD makes his little red SCrew look puny! [img]images/icons/laugh.gif[/img]

NoMo · 11-29-2001, 09:58 PM

<blockquote>quote:<hr>Originally posted by rrr:
However, half-way to work, my MPG had dropped to 9.8, and then on the way home with a couple of stops it dropped all the way to 5.9 MPG while on the freeway

I was getting panicky - even considering stopping to check for gas leaking out of my new gas tank...all before I finally realized what had happened <hr></blockquote>

Perhaps you should have been stopping anyway... for gas!! [img]images/icons/wink.gif[/img] I'd be a little concerned if I only had 5.9 miles to empty. [img]graemlins/phoney.gif[/img]

<blockquote>quote:<hr>Originally posted by outpost22:
Yeah, well at least you didn't drive 5 hours and stay overnight in a Hotel for a meeting the next day which just happened to be NEXT week not THIS week <hr></blockquote>

I think this deserves further explanation!

outpost22 · 11-29-2001, 11:22 PM

<blockquote>quote:<hr>Originally posted by NoMo:

I think this deserves further explanation!<hr></blockquote>

Lets just say its embarrasing to show up for a meeting, and nobodys there. Then, you inquire with the staff in the lobby and be told "Oh, thats NEXT week" [img]images/icons/crazy.gif[/img] [img]images/icons/crazy.gif[/img] [img]images/icons/crazy.gif[/img] [img]images/icons/crazy.gif[/img]

robsd · 11-30-2001, 10:22 AM

<blockquote>quote:<hr>Originally posted by outpost22:

and be told "Oh, thats NEXT week" [img]images/icons/crazy.gif[/img] [img]images/icons/crazy.gif[/img] [img]images/icons/crazy.gif[/img] [img]images/icons/crazy.gif[/img] <hr></blockquote>

But then again you knew that...

FL70CAT · 12-02-2001, 01:36 PM

???? Get out of a diesel and drive a "gas" guzzler?????? LOL!!!!!

kbeaubs · 12-02-2001, 10:02 PM

Thanks for the humor. Maybe I'll start a "humorous travel story" topic in "other". [img]images/icons/laugh.gif[/img]

JVencius · 12-02-2001, 11:02 PM

That sounds like me a couple of weeks ago. Usually when I get up for work it's dark out and the first thing I do is take care of some, ahem, personal business, then the usual shower, shave, get dressed routine. So that morning when I got up and had the need to take care of that same business I thought that my alarm must have gone off but I didn't hear it so I went about my usual routine and drove into work (notice that I have still not looked at a clock). When I got into work the parking lot seemed kind of empty but I went into the office, fired up the coffee pot and turned on my computer. It was only then that I saw it was 2:30 in the morning! Soooo... I went back home, took off my uniform as carefully as I could, and went back to beddy-bye for another four hours. It did make for some humorous conversation the next morning. [img]images/icons/laugh.gif[/img] [img]images/icons/laugh.gif[/img] [img]graemlins/smokin.gif[/img]

kbeaubs · 12-03-2001, 05:18 PM

Hey !!! I've done the same thing. I got suited up for work at 11:30 p.m. Suit, tie, shoes, everything.

I also had a job once at a silk screen company. My job was to sit behind a hot dryer, pick up scolding hot t-shirts, place them in dozens, and box them up. Sometimes they would have 5 presses doing 5 different jobs at the same time. It was totally chaotic. I woke up more than once in the middle of the night folding my bed sheets.
A couple of years later, a friend of mine had the exact same job and told me over a beer one night that he's been waking up in the middle of the night only to realize he's folding his sheets. [img]images/icons/shocked.gif[/img]

phillbo · 12-03-2001, 11:51 PM

At least your coffee was ready when you went back in ...

Mulepick · 12-11-2001, 08:32 AM

Originally posted by outpost22:
Yeah, well at least you didn't drive 5 hours and stay overnight in a Hotel for a meeting the next day which just happened to be NEXT week not THIS week

Yeah, that song and dance may work with the ole lady but it ain't gonna work here. I want to hear more about that night in the hotel! Pictures would help me understand.

LOL,