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| I have had my 08 Buick Enclave CXL AWD for 2 weeks now. I am averaging 14.7 MPG in mixed city and highway driving in Pittsburgh PA (lots of hills). This was calculated by miles driven divided by two full tank fulls of gas. But the computer does also report almost the exact same figure. | |
| We've had our CXL FWD for 2 weeks now. Most of the driving has been commuting back & forth to work with a few highway trips (330 miles on the odometer) Living in Florida hills are not something we have to deal with, yet we're only getting 12.6 mpg This is the biggest dissapointment with the Enclave. Any ideas on how to improve this? We traded in an '02 Seville with the Northstar V8 & it got much higher MPGs. | |
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Replying to: billdoug (Sep 24, 2007 11:42 am) I hit the gas pretty hard merging onto the freeway here in central Florida with the speed at which traffic travels here, so of course, I worsen my mileage. Just a thought.
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Replying to: jbjtkbw00 (Sep 24, 2007 1:08 pm) 
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Replying to: billdoug (Sep 24, 2007 2:06 pm) |
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2008 Enclave AWD First tank average in city driving was 15.5 mpg Second tank average in city driving is currently at 17 mpg Ran a 3 hour trip on interstate with speeds from 70 to 79 mph run average was 23.5 mpg If this holds up or gets slightly better I will be very pleased. |
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Replying to: billdoug (Sep 24, 2007 11:42 am) |
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The wind deflector rattles when the sunroof is closed. The wind deflector is a piece of plastic that springs up when the sunroof is opened. When the sunroof is closed this plastic is vibrating when I drive. I can push my fingers up into sunroof cavity, and press down on the wind deflector - and the sound goes away. I'm thinking of placing some foam weather stripping in there. Has anyone else had this problem? So far no water leaks, though:) |
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We bought our Enclave in Jan 09, it has front wheel drive and used primarily by the wife driving to work and back. 50 miles per day Interstate driving. We've taking it on long 500 miles + trips and have only gotten in the best world 21.5 MPG. Trip speeds are usually around 70 mph never higher than 75 mph. Have read reviews where owners are getting 23 to 25 MPG and would like to know the secret to improving mileage. We love the car!! 
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Replying to: fisherman59 (Aug 27, 2009 1:38 pm) One time I headed West out of Memphis to take mother home in eastern Arkansas. Had a 25+ MPH headwind. The MPG dropped down to around 16.5-17. On the way back with a tailwind the MPG climbed steadily and IIRC ended up over 20 by the time I got home. I've decided that 5th and 6th are overdrive and double overdrive. If you can keep it easing along in these, great mileage. If you have to drop down to maintain speed you can watch the MPG on the DIC drop pretty quick. Recently on my city street stretch with 40-45 mph speed limit, I have started using the thumb button on the shifter to kind of manage the RPMs. Otherwise once I get up to 40-45 in 5th-6th it kind of seems to lug and wants to downshift easily. I seem to be able to smoothe that out by shifting up and down as needed until 45 or so and sometimes will even downshift at a higher speed on an incline. I still like it and think it gets great mileage for a 7-8 passenger. Wife went to Gulf Coast a couple of weeks ago with her S-I-L in their Yukon and was talking about how much it cost them for gas. Bill |
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