15-16mpg arround town

17-18.5 highway

12-13 towing a 10000lb boat

all hand calculated

2005 auto 4.10 4x4

 

19 empty and 14 towing

 

How annoyed do you get with the Placerville stop lights on a daily basis?I go the back way and avoid Placerville altogether...

I live by the lake and the back way is shorter.

 

In town- 13-15mpg

Towing- 14-16mpg

Highway- 18-20mpg

Best- 21.8mpg 65mph with cruise

All is hand cal'd

 

So your wife is pretty hefty, eh? My woman is too. I'm thinking about getting some step rails for her so it'll be easier to shove her in .

 

she would rather me put wheels on the house and tow it.

 

how does a guy hand calculste their miles?? what about for oversize tires?? sure do hope i get better than what my overhead says i get. lucky to get 12.5 highway no load at 125 kms

 

you can use a programmer or go to the dealer to recalibrate the speedo, once this is correct divide the miles driven by the gallons used = mpg

 

Going to and from work, Ill get between 20.5 and 21 MPG, hand calced.

My overhead lie-o-meter usually is 1MPG below what I hand calc.

#52 05-04-2007, 10:22 PM
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how to hand calculate

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how does a guy hand calculste their miles?? what about for oversize tires?? sure do hope i get better than what my overhead says i get. lucky to get 12.5 highway no load at 125 kms

To get a good hand-calc, fill your tank up to the very top of the filler tube. drive around a while and then fill up again to the very top of the filler tube. Take the miles you have driven and divide it by the n umber of gallons you just put in the tank.

 

8 mpg at with camper and 10k trailer
11-12 mpg camper on
15-16 empty
right now I'm not driving it, sick of working to pay for fuel, wish I did not have it.

 

That's hilarious , You just better hope she does't sneak up behind you while you're making posts on this thread

 

Just got back from a 2250 mile trip with the '05. About 90% highway running about 65 to 70 mph we averaged 20.5 mpg hand calculated. Basically empty except the back seat area loaded with "stuff" and the 105 gal. tank and truck topped off around exit ?77? on I84 in Virginia.
Best ever with this truck was about 23 mpg mostly on 50 mph back roads with light traffic and few stops.
Towing between 10k and 15k (depends on trailer and load) it gets around 14.5 to 16.

 

16.7-17.3 avg mixed

 

I get around 10.5mpg towing my 30' TT and around 13mpg normal driving. This is with a DRW 4X4 auto with 4.10 gears and 5k miles. All hand calculated, overhead reads about 2.5 to 3 mpg higher. I can't complain to much, it get's the same mpg as my '04.5 did with about 19k when I traded it in on the '06. Both trucks set up the same. And from what I have heard and read, it gets better mpg than a comparable gas pot truck either empty or loaded.

 

On fourth tank and so far very pleased. Mostly mixed driving all hand calculated has been 16.9 to 17.5 and overhead has been off so more than 1 mpg so far. I recently cleared overhead so will see if it keeps up. So far no towing but short trip to RV dealer next Thursday and 2 hour trip middle of following week. Should be under 300 miles round trip but curious to see how it does there. Still only 1600 miles on it so hopefully things will only get better.