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Buick Rendezvous: Care & Maintenance
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According to my computer im getting 24.3 miles per gallon, on the highway. Im doing around 70mph. I was wondering if i putone of those high perf air filters i might get better gas mileage. What do you think?
Pat Detroit
I open the airfilter box with everything in place and yank out the old filter. There's just enough room to push the filter cover to the left towards the engine to free enough room to remove the filter with a good hard tug. That's the easy part. The hard part is putting in a replacement and it gets tricky. With everything in place, the top of the filter box opens more than the bottom. You need to slightly lift up the box to free the bottom which has two tabs that holds the cover in place. Once it's up, you slip the new filter onto the back of the filter cover (the part attached to the rubber hose). That part is easy. The hardest step comes when you need to squeeze the cover back in place. It's hard to get the bottom two tabs lined up because you can't see them and the filter itself is in the way. I normally end up flattening the bottom of the filter in this step. But the filter folds will stand back up once it's in. That's the process. It helps if your hands are on the medium to small size.
Don't bother checking it more than once a year. And when you do check, might as well replace it for all that trouble.
My temperature readings are quite accurate, once you've been driving for a few minutes. Initially, the readings are artificially high, as I'm guessing heat is accumulating under the hood. Once you start driving, the temps match the actual exterior temp.
If recalibrating your compass doesn't fix things, I'd recommend that you bring it in for service. I've had to recalibrate only twice (when I let my battery run down ... oops). And, once I recalibrated, things were just fine with the compass.