Last week I posted about my car stalling in the car wash (http://www.brickboard.com/RWD/index.htm?id=1068658) I decided tio get a coil. Something strange is happing now my mileage has gon up 6mpg from 26 to 31 and also for the past 6 months I was having a hesitation problem at least once a day. The car would hesitate coming off a stop sign or light.


Could a bad coil cause milage and hesitation problems?

23-25 is typical "good" mpg for auto tranny.
Lotsa folks never see 25.
Standards seem to get somewhere around 30, plus or minus.

"Your mileage may vary" as always - tires, tuneup, and the four tool boxes in the trunk and the cargo carrier on the roof rack all influence things. Not to mention an occasional lead foot, like I have.

My peak of slightly over 28 mpg in auto 245 was at the height of summer with the OEM mechanical fan replaced by an electric one. Winter was more like 22-23 mpg on my 85 mile commute jaunt.
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Sven: '89 245, IPD sways, electric rad. fan conversion, e-codes, 28+ mpg - auto tranny. 850 mi/week commute. '89 245 #2 (wifemobile). '90 244 (spare, runs).

Yes, but I think that after you average a few tanks of gas, you will find that the average is lower than 31. Sometimes we don't top them off as much on a fillup and we compute artificially high mileage on a single tank.

Yes!