Caravan and gas mileage

LOL, I would bet there is something wrong, you get almost the exact same milage that my 2003 Ram with a hemi and 3.92 gears gets around town! It will get better as time goes by though. Is there black soot in the exhaust pipe?

I had an old Camaro that ran fine, but suddenly began chugging down gas at an amazing rate. There was black smoke (not much), and soot in the tailpipe. Just about every sensor on it had blown, along with the CPU. It was running on the "limp home" mode, full rich.

I was really thankful for the 50K emissions warranty, it would have been about 8-900 bucks in parts alone. It just cost me 25 bucks for the diagnostic.

Good luck.

BDK

'supposed to get'

as in 'EPA Estimate'

as in BULLSHIT FIGURES

face it, the makers have figured out how to run the required EPA tests to get the best figures out of 'em

if you want to see pissed off people, ask one of the new 'hybrid' owners who will need to drive their vehicles 15 years with gas at 4 bucks a gallon to break even.............

Indeed. Mileage should improve somewhat after your engine breaks in, but that's ridiculous.

I have an '05 Town and Country with the 3.3V6. It has about 50K miles. I get very close to the EPA figures: about 16-18mpg in town and 25-27mpg on the highway. Before that I had an '02 Grand Caravan with the same engine but got about 2mpg less than that on the highway.

Agreed on the inflated EPA hybrid numbers. For example, I have heard several places that 45mpg overall is a real-world figure for the Prius.

Thanks for all your posts...

Yea, I agree it should be better and No, its not running rich. It seems to be running just fine. I'll ask the dealer on Saturday and see what they say but in all the cars I've had in the past 15 years, they get pretty much the exact mileage they state, maybe a slightly worse but very close.

Thanks again, Id appreciate more if there is more, and I'll be sure to post the results back here when I find out what's up. Maybe someones stealing my gas?

Aloha

Jim