Please help!! Corolla' 01 gas consumption HELP!

Corolla 01 is averaging 10 miles/gallon of gasoline. Replaced the dirty air
filter, but still 11miles/gallon now. Odometer reads 52110 miles. I'm
desperate, i can try anything including putting dead mice in the gas tank
like someone suggested provided that will resolve the problem. Anyone with a
suggestion? Please HELP!

If yo were _really_ getting 10 mpg, you should smell the gas and experience
noticiable performance problems. Have you made sure that somebody is not
routinely stealing gas from your car?




"boubi" <boubi10@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:sL85f.29411$Ge5.27955@fe10.lga...[color=blue]
> Corolla 01 is averaging 10 miles/gallon of gasoline. Replaced the dirty
> air filter, but still 11miles/gallon now. Odometer reads 52110 miles. I'm
> desperate, i can try anything including putting dead mice in the gas tank
> like someone suggested provided that will resolve the problem. Anyone with
> a suggestion? Please HELP!
>[/color]

There is no gas smell at all but yes the performance has decreased a bit.


"Jeff Strickland" <crwlr@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:QqqdnX4gBuo3hsjeRVn-vA@ez2.net...[color=blue]
> If yo were _really_ getting 10 mpg, you should smell the gas and
> experience noticiable performance problems. Have you made sure that
> somebody is not routinely stealing gas from your car?
>
>
>
>
> "boubi" <boubi10@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:sL85f.29411$Ge5.27955@fe10.lga...[color=green]
>> Corolla 01 is averaging 10 miles/gallon of gasoline. Replaced the dirty
>> air filter, but still 11miles/gallon now. Odometer reads 52110 miles. I'm
>> desperate, i can try anything including putting dead mice in the gas tank
>> like someone suggested provided that will resolve the problem. Anyone
>> with a suggestion? Please HELP!
>>[/color]
>[/color]

On Tue, 18 Oct 2005 15:58:11 -0400, boubi wrote:
[color=blue]
> There is no gas smell at all but yes the performance has decreased a bit.[/color]

How about when you fill the tank? Is there a gas smell then?

No matter how bad my cars have gotten, I have never been as low as 10MPG!
I think perhaps someone is stealing your gas!
[color=blue]
>
>
> "Jeff Strickland" <crwlr@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:QqqdnX4gBuo3hsjeRVn-vA@ez2.net...[color=green]
>> If yo were _really_ getting 10 mpg, you should smell the gas and
>> experience noticiable performance problems. Have you made sure that
>> somebody is not routinely stealing gas from your car?
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> "boubi" <boubi10@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>> news:sL85f.29411$Ge5.27955@fe10.lga...[color=darkred]
>>> Corolla 01 is averaging 10 miles/gallon of gasoline. Replaced the
>>> dirty air filter, but still 11miles/gallon now. Odometer reads 52110
>>> miles. I'm desperate, i can try anything including putting dead mice
>>> in the gas tank like someone suggested provided that will resolve the
>>> problem. Anyone with a suggestion? Please HELP!
>>>[/color]
>>[/color][/color]

You don't have a check engine light? With mileage that bad, something
has to be seriously wrong. And something that wrong should turn on the
check engine light.

Random thoughts -

- Do you have a transmission prolem? If you are driving a manual, is it
possible your clutch is slipping? If an automatic, is it shifting
properly? How's your fluid look?

- Is it possible you have brakes that are dragging? If so, you should
be able to tell after a short drive. If present, a dragging brake
should generate a lot of heat and possibly a real stink.

- Any chance you have a gas line, or fuel tank leak?

- A plugged exhaust system (plugged converter or muffler or a collasped
exhaust pipe) can up the back pressure and wreck fuel economy - except
I think this should turn on the check engine light.

- You probably should take it to a professional with the correct
equipment.

Ed

> No matter how bad my cars have gotten, I have never been as low as 10MPG!

Obviously you never had a 1967 Riviera GS with a .030-over 430 big
block, high rise manifold and Thermoquad 4-barrel. I would have been
happy to get 10 MPG ;-)

That was a LONG time ago

On Thu, 20 Oct 2005 05:55:06 -0700, Mark wrote:
[color=blue][color=green]
>> No matter how bad my cars have gotten, I have never been as low as 10MPG![/color]
>
> Obviously you never had a 1967 Riviera GS with a .030-over 430 big
> block, high rise manifold and Thermoquad 4-barrel. I would have been
> happy to get 10 MPG ;-)
>
> That was a LONG time ago[/color]

10 Toyotas, one Volvo, one (UGH!) VW and a Honda. Oh, yeah! One Nova SS,
bought right before the prices went from 50 cents to 75 cents a gallon!

That's about the time I had my Riviera... late 70s, early 80s. I
remembering stripping it for new paint out in the driveway when I heard
Reagan was shot.

That Toyota may still be covered under warrenty. Have your dealer check it
out. Alot of emmission parts are covered 8 years 80000 miles. In Cal.
emmission parts are covered even longer. Scott

"Mark" <bogusmailmark@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:1129812906.090063.162410@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...[color=blue][color=green]
>> No matter how bad my cars have gotten, I have never been as low as
>> 10MPG![/color]
>
> Obviously you never had a 1967 Riviera GS with a .030-over 430 big
> block, high rise manifold and Thermoquad 4-barrel. I would have been
> happy to get 10 MPG ;-)
>
> That was a LONG time ago
>[/color]

Or a new Dodge Ram 1500 pickup with a HEMI engine. 9 MPG in town according
to EPA.
--

- Philip

"Mark" <bogusmailmark@yahoo.com> wrote:
[color=blue][color=green]
>> No matter how bad my cars have gotten, I have never been as low as 10MPG![/color]
>
>Obviously you never had a 1967 Riviera GS with a .030-over 430 big
>block, high rise manifold and Thermoquad 4-barrel. I would have been
>happy to get 10 MPG ;-)
>
>That was a LONG time ago[/color]

Cripes, I wasn't getting a helluva lot more'n that with a
stupendously heavy Dodge 4WD Dakota half-ton with a 5.2 litre V-8
in it...God, how that thing loved gasoline
--

-Gord.
(use gordon in email)

I could stomp on the gas in my Riviera (it had one of those cool
barrel-style rolling speedometers) and literally watch the gas gauge
fall. It was a monster - extremely quick from 30mph to *about* 100.
;-)