'07 Caravan - very poor gas mileage

External Since: Feb 11, 2006 Posts: 12

This summer I bought a new 2007 Caravan base model with Flexfuel. For the
first tank of gas, I got about 18mpg in town, a little below stated mpg.
Then the mileage kept going down. In cold winter now, it only gets 14mpg. I
exactly followed the advice for break-in, and get services on time. This
never happened to our other new cars. I used to own a '94 Caravan, even
better mileage than this one. I know there are some additives to gas in
winter, but that should not cause so much loss to efficiency.

Thanks.

External Since: Nov 26, 2006 Posts: 111

On Sat, 29 Dec 2007 11:02:22 -0600, John61 wrote:

> This summer I bought a new 2007 Caravan base model with Flexfuel. For the
> first tank of gas, I got about 18mpg in town, a little below stated mpg.
> Then the mileage kept going down. In cold winter now, it only gets 14mpg. I
> exactly followed the advice for break-in, and get services on time. This
> never happened to our other new cars. I used to own a '94 Caravan, even
> better mileage than this one. I know there are some additives to gas in
> winter, but that should not cause so much loss to efficiency.

Bummer. Have you talked to your dealer about it?

> Thanks.

For what?

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