Sounds like your social skills may be still suffering from the after effects as well. I don't do road trips very often and when I do I like to use the opportunity to see what I can wring out a gallon of diesel. 36.4 mpg certainly isn't the something I see all the time but it's not out of the realm of possibility with the right conditions, technique and consciousness. Thanks for your carefully considered input.
--- In diesel_mercedes@yahoogroups.com, "max_stemple" <max_stemple@...> wrote:
>
> Yea wow, My 240 got 38 once. I could not figure it out since it always gets in the low 30's to high 20's. O yea, I was on crack, well that explaned it. Max
>
> --- In diesel_mercedes@yahoogroups.com, JD <jdblackwell2@> wrote:
> >
> > 24.8 mpg?? Not sure what passes for the norm but
> > my '92 300D got 36.4 mpg on a trip from
> > Marysville, WA to Portland, OR. She routinely
> > gets 28mpg in my around town travels. My '86 190D
> > 5 speed posted 41mpg on a week of my wife's I-5
> > commute and gets 34 around town. This being
> > Seattle you can guess we didn't use the a/c. Both
> > have 250,000+ miles on the original engines. I run
> > slightly larger than spec Nokian Entyres; 205 *50*
> > 17 on AMG wheels on the 300D and *195* 65 15 on
> > the 190D. This gives a 3.5% and 2.5% greater
> > rolling diameter respectively combined with what
> > ever the whatever the reduced rolling resistance is.
> >
>
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