> Hi everyone, Hi. > I recently joined this list and I think it's great!
We try... > One thing I really dislike is the poor MPG. It gets about 24 hwy, and 20 > city. Is this normal? That's a little low, but not too bad. However, you say that there is visible dark smoke during acceleration. That isn't normal. A properly tuned 2.0 16V won't put out any visible smoke except, maybe, when some Honduh rips by you, and you drop it down a couple of gears and mash the gas;-). But, even then, there should only be a brief puff of smoke, and then nothing visible. I would check the full throttle enrichment micro switch located on the throttle body. If it was stuck on all the time, you would have an overly rich condition at idle and part throttle. > The car consumes about 1qt of oil (Mobil-1 > 15W-50) every 1500 miles or so. I feed it Chevron premium, the California > special MTBE/oxygenated crap. That's a little excessive, also. My '92 GTI 16V, which is not exactly stock, still gets over 2K per quart of Redline 10w14, even when I beat on it a lot (shifting at 7800-8000 RPM). It's entirely possible that your fuel consumption problem is contributing to the high oil consumption. When you have raw fuel dumped into the cylinders, you get what's called "fuel dilution", which means the film of engine oil that's on the cylinder walls gets dissolved by the gasoline and burned in the combustion process. If you plan on keeping the car, and want to know the real condition of the motor, have a leak down test run on it. --Holland Forced Failure Racing Don't Ask MotorSports [email protected] a2_16V List Owner [email protected] San Jose, California _____________ List Sponsor: http://www.netsville.com To remove yourself from this list, send mail to [email protected] with 'unsubscribe a2_16v' in the body of your message See us on the web at http://www.a2-16v.com Visit the 16V Homepage at http://www.gti16v.org
