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Dear Motor Medics, I listen to your show every week and hear that Chris has a Toyota Prius. Welcome to the family Chris, I am a Prius owner too.
I have found that we Prius owners are a varied bunch. Some of us drive them for the cool features, others for the “green” element of the car, and ones like me who just want the best mileage I can get and, when I ran across the Prius, it just seemed to fit at the time.
There are so many things to learn though, I could almost use a school on them.
My question is about the mileage that has really dropped. I have about 30,000 miles on the car and I bought new tires a month ago. The tires are the exact brand as I had before, but when I had them installed; I noticed an immediate change of almost 3mpg less than before the tire change.
Can there be something wrong with the tires that could cause this?
Kelly in Lemmon, South Dakota
Dear Kelly, Changing tires usually won’t make a noticeable dif
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