Have I bought a "lemon"? Advice needed.

[austinsmirk]

If I paid the pittance that the U.S. or Canada does for petrol id be driving anything with a minimum of 12 cylinders.

Not chugging about in my diesel !

[white_goodman]

austinsmirk said:

If I paid the pittance that the U.S. or Canada does for petrol id be driving anything with a minimum of 12 cylinders.

Not chugging about in my diesel !

Fair enough. Big country means big distances though. If I leave town, I can pretty much drive for 3 hours in any direction before I reach another city and there can be a fair shortage of petrol stations on the way (in my old job, I frequently had to turn around and go back to town for petrol because the next petrol station was an hour away and I wouldn`t have made it)! I will do the proper thing and add a V8 pickup or muscle car to the white goodman fleet in the next couple of years though.

[Grey Ghost]

The MPG quoted on EU adverts are from engines that are run on a bench in laboratory conditions and not from day to day driving with the weight of the car, fuel, passengers etc. to haul around. The published MPG figures are hardly ever achievable in the real world.

Guess it must be the same in Canada.

[OldGermanHeaps]

The extra flex in winter tyres kills mpg too.

[white_goodman]

OldGermanHeaps said:

The extra flex in winter tyres kills mpg too.

True but I'm running all-seasons on the Civic (winters on my wife's Toyota).