"Wrong Wheel Drive (41%)" (rduncan5678)
11/16/2018 at 16:59 • Filed to: None
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"Wrong Wheel Drive (41%)" (rduncan5678)
11/16/2018 at 16:59 • Filed to: None | 2
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I just got my roof rack on yesterday, a pretty simple and straight forward install. This weekend I’m testing it out on a trip to Mammoth. There’s not much snow and all of it is man made, but at least what is here is pretty good. A nice workout to warmup for ski season at least! The rack isn’t too noisy on the car on the highway but it definitely did cut my gas mileage. I calculated about 20mpg versus my typical 23-24 on the same route with a naked roof. I’m gonna see if a wind fairing would help any since my main concern at that point is range. At 24mpg, I can go right around 310-320 miles before the fuel light comes on whereas at 20 I only made it to 260. While yeah I have a solid two gallons left at the light, I don’t like to push it much beyond that. It’s WAY more convenient than removing the back seat and cramming the interior full of everything though, so I don’t mind the gas cost at least.
It’s a small 4 ski rack so I actually have room to fit more stuff on there too. I could do a narrow box, a bike, or just mount my ski travel case directly. Gives me good ideas for my longer road trip coming up.
Now the mountain just needs some snow to start falling! Hopefully when I come back in December, I’ll get some real snow to play in. For the rest of this weekend I’m thinking about heading over to Yosemite and doing some hiking, so I’ll keep it interesting either way!
Highlander-Datsuns are Forever
> Wrong Wheel Drive (41%)
11/16/2018 at 17:06 |
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Meanwhile in Montana:
https://skiwhitefish.roundshot.com/summit/
I might hike for some turns tomorrow.
Kim Jong - Healthy
> Wrong Wheel Drive (41%)
11/16/2018 at 18:18 |
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looks so much more mature and clean with the wing delete and addition of the trunk lip.
white on gold looks awesome!
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Wrong Wheel Drive (41%)
> Kim Jong - Healthy
11/16/2018 at 19:03 |
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Yeah I'm happy with the previous owner's choices. Plus the professionally done headlights look proper. I'm always impressed how good this car looks.
TheRealBicycleBuck
> Wrong Wheel Drive (41%)
11/16/2018 at 21:44 |
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I’d run a few more tanks through it before deciding that the rack really knocked off 4 mpg. The rack on my WRX doesn’t affect the mileage at all, even with a bike rack attached. I used MileageKeeper to keep track for years.
The best mileage I ever achieved was 33.4 mpg and it happened when I had a Thule box mounted on top. How could that be? It was because I was taking it easy instead of being hammer-down all the time. I typically get around 20 mpg.
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> TheRealBicycleBuck
11/16/2018 at 22:18 |
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I mean I was just cruising along at 80 for the whole tank. But yeah you are right, I haven’t run the tires on a whole tank yet either so those could very well be part of it. I could see 1-2 coming from both items easily. They are definitely aired up but the tread is MUCH deeper than my last set. I’ll confirm when I’m home and can remove the rack and track my mileage again. I didn’t find any difference with the tires on my commute but I always get around 20 then anyways, and maybe it’s just on the highway at constant speed where the gap is.
No way could I get 30+ though in an older STi lol. Maybe 25-26 if I kept it below 75 and really don't touch the throttle to pass people.
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TheRealBicycleBuck
> Wrong Wheel Drive (41%)
11/17/2018 at 07:53 |
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It happened while we were on our way to Scout Camp. Our speed was limited to the slowest truck pulling the Troop trailer - 65 mph, tops.
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> TheRealBicycleBuck
11/17/2018 at 08:58 |
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Ahh nice. Yeah I'd get run over by a truck at that speed and die of boredom. I don't like caravanning either. I'd like to try hyper miling the STi though some day just for Shits and giggles