What am I doing wrong?
"Eisboch" wrote:
This is pretty simple but I can't figure out what I am doing wrong:
Bought a 2002 Saturn for a kick around town car. It's a Canadian car,
so the odometer reads in kilometers instead of miles. It's a very basic
car and you can't set it to read in miles.
So, the day I picked it up it had a quarter of a tank of gas. I
stopped at the gas station and put in $20 worth. At $3.68/gal that
amounts to about 5.4 gallons. It brought the gauge up to about 3/4 full.
Drove the car around for over a week until the gauge read a quarter tank
again. According to the odometer, I had travelled 700 kilometers.
1 kilometer equals 0.62 miles. So, 700 kilometers time 0.62 equals 434 miles.
Divide 434 miles by the 5.4 gallons I had burned and it says the car is
getting about 80 miles per gallon !!!
I was just trying to get a rough idea of what kind of mileage it gets,
but this can't be right. What am I doing wrong? I feel like an idiot.
Your gas gauge is kaput. 😟
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