On Tue, 2006-05-09 at 10:28 -0700, Alex Harford wrote:
> On 5/9/06, Herbert Graf <mailinglist2@farcite.net> wrote:
> >
> > Considering how abrupt the change in mileage is I wouldn't be too
> > surprised if someone came up to me and told me the computer has a "cold
> > weather" profile and a "warm weather" profile, and that the cold weather
> > profile gives up certain things (mileage) for other uses (i.e. getting
> > the car warmed up quicker to prevent damage to the engine).
> 
> Could it be the change in winter gas formulations to summer gas?
> 
> http://www.metrompg.com/posts/winter-mpg.htm

Hmm, never considered that. It's possible, but then, it still wouldn't
explain why my 1988 Olds and my brother's 1987 Buick (both fuel injected
with distributorless ignition systems) didn't notice ANY noticeable
change.

TTYL

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