Hollabakzach23
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Lucky you getting 16 mpg in a 2nd gen. I'm lucky to average 10.8 and I drive like miss daisy.
Trucks eating me alive with gas need help!
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Lucky you getting 16 mpg in a 2nd gen. I'm lucky to average 10.8 and I drive like miss daisy.
jlb
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I average about 11, with lots of city driving. I occasionally tromp on it at a light, but not very often. If you do lots of city driving that's just what you get.
Winter fuels contain ethanol for smog reduction (it burns cleaner, that's why they have the E85 vehicles), and it has a lower BTU value than straight gas, which is one reason you get lower MPG in the winter.
If you only have 2300 miles on your truck be happy with the mileage you are getting. I was really dis-satisfied with my mileage until about 5k-6k when I think the engine was more thoroughly broken in.
Winter fuels contain ethanol for smog reduction (it burns cleaner, that's why they have the E85 vehicles), and it has a lower BTU value than straight gas, which is one reason you get lower MPG in the winter.
If you only have 2300 miles on your truck be happy with the mileage you are getting. I was really dis-satisfied with my mileage until about 5k-6k when I think the engine was more thoroughly broken in.
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Well, it may take me close to a year to put 5k on it.
My last truck, I had 29 months, and only put 12,800 on it in that time.
The ONLY reason it has 2300 on it now (had it 3 1/2 months), is I literally went out driving for 2-3 hrs at a time for the 1st 2 weeks I had it to put the miles on it for break in so I could start towing my boat with it. Otherwise, it'd have less than 1000 miles on it.
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