What did you do to your P2 Volvo today?

[jonesg]

fought with front flex hoses, got the flare nut off easily but the hose doesn't want to let go of the bracket, so I removed bracket with the hose and beat it out in the vice, that'll teach it.

Next is the exhaust gasket after the cat, at least its cheap.

[vtl]

Next is the exhaust gasket after the cat, at least its cheap.

If you bolts are rusted beyond having threads, you need Dremel to cut two slots by the bolts, then knock the bolt/remnants out. Use new bolts, apparently.

[Krons]

Spent $59 for 12 gallons of gas, at $4.899/gal for 93 (that's with an $0.80/gal discount), to fill my tank up.

Mostly city driving, only getting 14.1mpg. Hopefully now that my misfire is gone it'll get better gas mileage. What's the average stop and go city mpg for an automatic B5244S?

Curious about milage too. My xc70 supposedly gets 720km on a full tank.

I spent $134 to fill my wife’s tank last week with regular. This is getting ridiculous…. MatthewsTeslaSite anyone ?

I've seen a nice bump in my mileage of my 08 since running 4-5 tanks of Marvel Mystery Oil in my gas. From around 29mpg at ~65 mph to 32. Guessing it has cleaned my injectors up.

Not being one to fall for snake oils I tried some in my Nissan Frontier and my BMW motorcycle and I was impressed they all picked up mileage of about 10%+. At $6 a quart at Walmart (and gas at $5/gal) it has been worth it to me.

Gnalan I never do stop and go so can't directly compare but my kids 02 does all in town/suburban and is consistently 20-22 mpg so I think you should be doing better than 14.

[br0dy519]

Are you guys just going off of “instantaneous” fuel efficiency in the DIM? I average 11l/100km in my XC and 9l/100km in my s60.

[jonesg]

Next is the exhaust gasket after the cat, at least its cheap.

If you bolts are rusted beyond having threads, you need Dremel to cut two slots by the bolts, then knock the bolt/remnants out. Use new bolts, apparently.

Yeh It looks like it will need destructive effort to remove the old bolts.

[vtl]

Yeh It looks like it will need destructive effort to remove the old bolts.

Actually, had to cut catback.

[gnalan]

Are you guys just going off of “instantaneous” fuel efficiency in the DIM? I average 11l/100km in my XC and 9l/100km in my s60.

My dash doesn't tell me my fuel efficiency. I reset my trip when I fill my tank, and the next time I fill it I take the mileage from the trip reading and divide it by the amount of gas it takes to refill the tank.

I don't think I've seen higher than 14mpg in my 2001 S60, and that's running 93 octane. I did have a misfire for awhile, which I just replaced the 5 coils to get rid of, so I'm hoping the fuel mileage will get better now. (I'll find out when I fill up again.)

[vtl]

14.1 MPG right now (short trips, always cold, suburbs driving). Toyota Tundra on AT tires is only 1 MPG less, ouch.

Got 28 MPG in XC70 rolling MA->FL, with MMO in every tank fill, yes It didn't cure my old worn valve stem seals, so the engine blew up the exhaust valve shortly after. That taught me paying attention to oil consumption and calcium content in oil (calcium deposits break off, chunks are caught between valve face and valve seat).

Seen P2 with tank-average 30 MPG only once, in N/A 02 V70.

[gnalan]

I drove with the AC on today without any stumbles or misfires. New Bosch coils are working perfectly.

[br0dy519]

How long did you drive with a misfire? And how severe was it? I’d be afraid of damaging my cat