Does the heater kill your gas?
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Its not the heater, but you car does use more gas while the engine is warming up. Since it takes longer to warm up in the winter, you use more gas. Also, check your tire pressures. They can decrease quite a bit in the cold weather which will cause a reduction in mileage.
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n00b
Joined: May 2005
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Originally Posted by Smartass pHO
Its not the heater, but you car does use more gas while the engine is warming up. Since it takes longer to warm up in the winter, you use more gas. Also, check your tire pressures. They can decrease quite a bit in the cold weather which will cause a reduction in mileage.
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Originally Posted by Smartass pHO
Remember, check and set your tire pressures when the tires are COLD.
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From: At Home
Originally Posted by mikewest13
right now that's all the time, lol... jk... will do that... hard to get to the gas station though and not heat them up along the way
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From: E.Y., TORONTO
just buy a tire pressure guage. thats one of the first tihngs i bought wen i got my car. theyre only like 8 bucks, well the good ones. i hadnt checked my tires in awhile and a coouple weeks ago i noticed they looked low so ofcourse i checked them right away. my tires dropped quite a bit in the cold. i had them stiff and they dropped down to 25lbs. pumped them back a lil less stiff to 35. 30 is recommened but i like my tires stiffer.car felt ALOt better after i pumped them up. there are also other reasons ur car burns more gas now that its cold. and, heater will not kill ur gas.
Last edited by tdot2gteg; Dec 13, 2005 at 11:29 AM.
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n00b
Joined: May 2005
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Originally Posted by tdot2gteg
just buy a tire pressure guage. thats one of the first tihngs i bought wen i got my car. theyre only like 8 bucks, well the good ones. i hadnt checked my tires in awhile and a coouple weeks ago i noticed they looked low so ofcourse i checked them right away. my tires dropped quite a bit in the cold. i had them stiff and they dropped down to 25lbs. pumped them back a lil less stiff to 35. 30 is recommened but i like my tires stiffer.car felt ALOt better after i pumped them up. there are also other reasons ur car burns more gas now that its cold. and, heater will not kill ur gas.
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From: Downtown TO
I prefer 30 in the winter if not even a little lower. I prefer the larger contact patch in the winter. I find with harder tires, the car is more likely to get thrown about in the ruts on the road in the snow. My brothers car was getting squirrely on parts of the Gardner till I told him to drop the pressures and the problem went away.