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i have a 97 mercury tracer with engine code p 2.0 single overhead bought the car cheap beacuse it needed a head gasket job got it running and have been driving it as a daily driver for the last 6 months when i first started driving it i got around 17 MPG after basic tune up after i new it was going to stay running good so i didn’t wast any more money on it if it blew up i replaced plugs/wires/air filter/cleaned intake when did head job cleaned idle air control valve cleaned mass air flow cleaned throttle body cleaned pcv valve cleaned egr valve and tube plus ran seasome to clean injectors and getting around 22 MPG now still seams low to me was hoping for around 25/26 or higher has 122XXX on it tell me if that seams low or is this average automatic trans
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Well it all depends on the type of driving you do. Do you drive in a lot of stop and go traffic? Do you take short or long trips? Have you replaced the fuel filter? Do you beat on the car (constantly floor it)? Do you let it idle for extended periods of time?
But if you do mostly city driving considering it’s a 97 it’s getting good mileage at 22MPG. The site I’m looking at shows 24MPG city and 34 Highway in the 5spd manual. Here’s the link http://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/noframes/13484.shtml
Hope that helps!
from home to work home for lunch back to work then home 4 time a week then to another town to pick my kid up highway 30 miles so average driving no stupid driving bought a fuel filter for it just haven’t replaced it yet do to snow no excessive idle times short driving mostly
Yeah so 22 MPG is fairly decent for that mileage and type of driving. But try the fuel filter and just look for any vacuum leaks.
My van is expected to get around 17MPG in the city and I drive 5 miles to work and that’s what I get.
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