Q: Miles to a fuel of tank changes

asked by on January 01, 2017

My car usually says I get 380/400 miles when I put a full tank of petrol in. Lately it's saying much less, 350. Obviously the tank size is the same so same amount of fuel going in so why does it change?

My car has 87000 miles.
My car has a manual transmission.

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