Please help!! Corolla' 01 gas consumption HELP!

If yo were _really_ getting 10 mpg, you should smell the gas and experience noticiable performance problems. Have you made sure that somebody is not routinely stealing gas from your car?

There is no gas smell at all but yes the performance has decreased a bit.

How about when you fill the tank? Is there a gas smell then?

No matter how bad my cars have gotten, I have never been as low as 10MPG! I think perhaps someone is stealing your gas!

You don't have a check engine light? With mileage that bad, something has to be seriously wrong. And something that wrong should turn on the check engine light.

Random thoughts -

- Do you have a transmission prolem? If you are driving a manual, is it possible your clutch is slipping? If an automatic, is it shifting properly? How's your fluid look?

- Is it possible you have brakes that are dragging? If so, you should be able to tell after a short drive. If present, a dragging brake should generate a lot of heat and possibly a real stink.

- Any chance you have a gas line, or fuel tank leak?

- A plugged exhaust system (plugged converter or muffler or a collasped exhaust pipe) can up the back pressure and wreck fuel economy - except I think this should turn on the check engine light.

- You probably should take it to a professional with the correct equipment.

Ed

That Toyota may still be covered under warrenty. Have your dealer check it out. Alot of emmission parts are covered 8 years 80000 miles. In Cal. emmission parts are covered even longer. Scott

Or a new Dodge Ram 1500 pickup with a HEMI engine. 9 MPG in town according to EPA.

Cripes, I wasn't getting a helluva lot more'n that with a stupendously heavy Dodge 4WD Dakota half-ton with a 5.2 litre V-8 in it...God, how that thing loved gasoline