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[32wildbilly]

I just put $75 of “cheap” gas into the Grand Cherokee. Didn’t fill it up - debit pre-auth of $75 no longer sufficient to buy a full tank of gas.
Haven’t had this problem since I dumped the X5...but the range is nice.

Please define "cheap gas". Isn't that tank only @24 gallons with est 18 city and 25 highway. Of course when your climbing mountains in it the fuel mileage will suffer...so never mind!

[Einsteiger]

Takes me back to the first car that I ever ordered from a dealer: 1973 Ford Pinto wagon. Overall, realiable as hell. I remember filling up at a local Vickers station in Bellevue, NE for $.35 per gallon, and the attendent saying: "good thing you got this car - I hear gas is headed north of fifty cents a gallon soon!"

Thems was the days.............

[32wildbilly]

Takes me back to the first car that I ever ordered from a dealer: 1973 Ford Pinto wagon. Overall, realiable as hell. I remember filling up at a local Vickers station in Bellevue, NE for $.35 per gallon, and the attendent saying: "good thing you got this car - I hear gas is headed north of fifty cents a gallon soon!"

Thems was the days.............

True this. 1973 was the year of the Oil Crisis so gas was getting ready to explode price wise. In 1973 I was making $4.24 per hour as a set-up electrician for the railroad and thought I was crapping in high clover! I was driving a 1969 Chevelle SS 396 so gas became an issue for me.

[gnat]

I just put $75 of “cheap” gas into the Grand Cherokee. Didn’t fill it up - debit pre-auth of $75 no longer sufficient to buy a full tank of gas.

Haven’t had this problem since I dumped the X5...but the range is nice.

Heh. Shortly after buying the P!g diesel out here shot up to cheap CA levels. As I'm one to attempt to get every last drop out of a tank (had my Escape cut out on me just as I turned into a station and coast to the pump...) that was an annoying few months where I had to go through 2 rounds of swiping. Especially when I'd hit the odd station that refused to let you use the same card within a set period of time...

[OceanBlue2000]

We still have relatively cheap gas here in NJ ($2.37 down the street I think) because (surprise!) the gas tax is still low and we are close to refineries. I wouldn't mind paying more tax if the money couldn't be used for anything other than roads or other infrastructure. Oh well.


And the way I drive, I could use another 5 gallon capacity in the 996. Seems like I'm always filling it up.

[gnat]

And the way I drive, I could use another 5 gallon capacity in the 996. Seems like I'm always filling it up.

Heh. The P!g has spoiled me. Before I stopped commuting into the office the combination of short distance, 26g tank, and 30ish mpg meant that I was only having to fill up once a month. Now it feels like such a chore when I have to fill something up

[JayG]

Takes me back to the first car that I ever ordered from a dealer: 1973 Ford Pinto wagon. Overall, realiable as hell. I remember filling up at a local Vickers station in Bellevue, NE for $.35 per gallon, and the attendent saying: "good thing you got this car - I hear gas is headed north of fifty cents a gallon soon!"

Thems was the days.............

Yea the good old days, especially with a Pinto with its optional rear seat BBQ

[32wildbilly]

Takes me back to the first car that I ever ordered from a dealer: 1973 Ford Pinto wagon. Overall, realiable as hell. I remember filling up at a local Vickers station in Bellevue, NE for $.35 per gallon, and the attendent saying: "good thing you got this car - I hear gas is headed north of fifty cents a gallon soon!"

Thems was the days.............

Yea the good old days, especially with a Pinto with its optional rear seat BBQ

Hey! I had forgotten about the exploding gas tanks! I went to Maui in the early 70's with a GF and we rented a Pinto for the week. I played Mario Andretti on the Road to Hana which was much more primitive than today. Lucky I didn't loop it and back it into a Banyan tree!

[Einsteiger]

For the record, the Pinto wagons did not experience the same kind of....incidents....as their coupe bretheren. We ended up trading it in MN for a gigantic 78 Ford LTD Wagon. Opposite end of that spectrum.

[OceanBlue2000]

For the record, the Pinto wagons did not experience the same kind of....incidents....as their coupe bretheren. We ended up trading it in MN for a gigantic 78 Ford LTD Wagon. Opposite end of that spectrum.

My uncle bought 4 70s Pintos in all I think. At least one of them went back for the factory recall, which consisted of putting a metal firewall between the gas tank and the rear. All my cousins eventually got them, and I learned manual on one.

He was a Ford guy (he had a F150 too), but I am otherwise unsure why he bought all these dogs. He was always working on one or another. Maybe because he thought his kids couldn't go fast enough in them to do damage.