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What To Do... Driving Such Short Distance!


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There actually Bike cages Freeze where you hang your bike and lock it up.... Will be doing train Mon Thursday as pick son up on Fridays... Car will be going from doing 550ks minimum to about 150 to 200... So from $120 a week petrol to $20...lol... Not a bad saving at all.

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I had a similar dilemma all last year working on the perth city link project at perth train station. Drove 8mins to station 8 mins home. Fuel economy was shocking at 14.5l/100km I would get like 400ks out of a tank max

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Car will be going from doing 550ks minimum to about 150 to 200... So from $120 a week petrol to $20...lol... Not a bad saving at all.

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Electric scooter - tomahawk. Go 50 all out have a 10 K range if fully charged and cheap as on ebay ATM - could likely stick it in the bike lockup.

Low K commute......... cannot remember the last time it was under 25k's to get to the job.

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Last year I bought a 2002 WH2 5.7L Statesman (ssshhh!). The car had 2 babyseats in the back and the owner said it was only used by his wife to drive to work and drop their kids off at daycare. Both were about 2 minutes away. The car ran perfectly but when I removed the valley cover to replace a gasket the LS1 was full of gunk and dry, hardened oil sediment.
Removing the valley cover disturbed the sediment which breaks into heaps of tiny pieces. This then ended up blocking the pickup screen which would cause low oil pressure. Multiple oil changes made no difference and neither did multiple engine flushes so ended up having to pull the motor out and disassemble it.
It was crazy how gunked up it was. I believe it was from doing so many short trips with the car not getting near operating temp and also likely not enough oil changes and a cheap oil. If you're going to use the car to drive frequent short trips I'd definitely try and use a good fully synthetic oil with good detergents and change it every 6 months.

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