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Old Nov 22, 2005 | 10:56 AM
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evo now weekend car - on same fill up of gas for a while

ever since i bought a daily driver, the evo gets driven on the weekend for roughly 5-10 miles.

i jsut realized its been running on the same fill up of gas since 2 months ago. i heard about adding additives or octane boosters and read up on it, but i was curious if there's anything else besides throwing in some 100 octane or emptying my gas tank.

keep in mind the car is being driven weekly, but just for a short period of time. any thoughts would help. thanks
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Old Nov 22, 2005 | 11:33 AM
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Why do people not wanna drive their EVOs as daily drivers? How can you resist!
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Old Nov 22, 2005 | 11:35 AM
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xylene
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Old Nov 22, 2005 | 11:41 AM
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Why do people not wanna drive their EVOs as daily drivers? How can you resist!
+ I do have a car for daily driving, but I alsways find myself in the evo everyday. I dont know how people can stand it.
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Old Nov 22, 2005 | 12:14 PM
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i put parking insurance on my EVO so i would just drive my beater
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Old Nov 22, 2005 | 01:31 PM
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damn. I need to control myself to cut it under 1000 miles/week. 5-10 miles is rediculous.
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Old Nov 22, 2005 | 01:39 PM
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Sell your evo. That's someone's dream car wasting away in your garage! j/k

Why don't you just drive it more? Luckily you don't have to worry about cold temps like we do here.
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Old Nov 22, 2005 | 04:46 PM
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seriously 5 to 10 miles is crazy. sorry i couldnt be of help but dude, 5 to 10 miles is CRAZY.
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Old Nov 22, 2005 | 04:49 PM
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props for restraints
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Old Nov 22, 2005 | 04:54 PM
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That would drive me crazy, man how can you keep your self from the driving this beautiful machine. 5-10 miles man, that is crazy.... People worry about their mileage too much......
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Old Nov 22, 2005 | 04:54 PM
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+1 that's some self control u got there.
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Old Nov 22, 2005 | 05:28 PM
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Those 5-10 miles better be the hardest miles that car will ever see, I'd drive it like I stole it.
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Old Dec 1, 2005 | 10:36 PM
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haha its true - thoes 5-10 miles are hard as hell. but thats also why im worrying about the gas going bad. ill look into xylene, but any other suggestions?

by the way, my daily driver is a EG civic - CX model. yeah yeah - i know its a POS. im slowly gettin used to not using that right passenger rear view mirror since it doesnt have one :O
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Old Dec 1, 2005 | 10:45 PM
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I am getting my lights done by evodave and havent driven it in 6 days and am having major withdrawls!!! How could you only drive 5-10 miles a week!!!
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Old Dec 1, 2005 | 10:46 PM
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there is a product that motorcyslist use when storing for winter cant think of name atm maybe somebody can chime in.

Found it its called STA-BIL fuel stabalizer

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