boon's log 1709.02: mpg

I found an old graph stored somewhere in one small archived corner. I used to track the mpg / kmpl for my Nissan, which I purchased back in 1999. Gosh, how time flies, by Q3 this year, the car's gonna turn 10. We've been through a lot and been to a lot of places - even all the way down to Singapore once, with my old college mates for a reunion.

I still remember EC and I took off from Penang and then headed down to KL to pick YW up and then proceeded down to Spore to meet up with IN and DW. Spent the weekend there catching up and shopping. Those were great times.

Anyway, the point of this post was the mpg graph. 2003 - that was the year when gas price was at a low of MYR1.35 / liter. I used to be able to get a full tank of gas with just a little over MYR50. Not anymore.

So in the interest of finding out how the mpg degraded across time, I restarted tracking the mpg again and surprised at what I observed - not surprised that it has indeed degraded, but surprised at the amount - a 4.27mpg degradation (or a 1.82kmpl degradation).

That means for every liter, I get almost 2km's less distance that what I used to get 6 years ago. That's 80km less on every full tank. That's a lot. I used to be able to get like 400km on a full tank, but the latest data point only fetched 313.8km.


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I was discussing with IL that we really need to send the car back to the service center for a "full body checkup" and perhaps even an overhaul. Noises are coming out of places that are not supposed to. We've been sending it to a general mechanic for a while because of convenience - he (the mechanic) comes and collects the car from us for service and then brings it back when he's done. Really convenient. But I guess, it is about time that we send it back to Nissan for a proper and thorough service and check-up.

Hopefully it can hold up until Q3 of 2009 for the service and not die on us before then.... ;)

boon out...