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I drove across town to pick up my degree since im still waiting on parts

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RyanbabZ71 Senior Enthusiast

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Driving around VA. Damn I have never seen over 15.5 in 7.5 years. This is what doing 5 over the speed limit 60-65, will yield.

 

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Ravenkeeper Senior Enthusiast

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Driving around VA. Damn I have never seen over 15.5 in 7.5 years. This is what doing 5 over the speed limit 60-65, will yield.

 

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Having driven around VA before, that is great!!! Now, imagine what the speed limit will yield.

 

Mine usually shows about 22MPG (on most tanks of gas, "Trip A"), speed limit & cruise control, religiously, my overall average (according to the computer, "Trip B") is 19.2. It's relatively flat out here, and most of my driving is highway, home to/from work. I'll drive up to Tehachapi, my MPGs drop to 17-18 :devil: , BUT on the way back down, my MPGs will climb to higher than when I left to go up there :freak: .

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I didn't get that in VA when I was there in October. I'm pretty sure I can't count that high.

 

I hit a whopping 64,000 miles on the way home. I'd say still not broken in yet but the problems it's had over the years would say otherwise I think.

michigan2500hd Senior Enthusiast

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Driving around VA. Damn I have never seen over 15.5 in 7.5 years. This is what doing 5 over the speed limit 60-65, will yield.

 

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Ryan B.

And on E85.. Those are good numbers. I will say the millage on my 15 6.2 is pretty stellar. I seem to always get 19.5 - 21 on the expressway doing 75-80.

 

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You have to pay attention a bit to get decent mileage. Limit remote starts/jack rabbit starts/hard braking applications and drive the speed limit with a steady foot on the accelerator and these things will get good mpg (for a 6000lb truck) I ride with a guy at work that is constantly speeding (zooming) right up on the car ahead like he is always in a huge hurry constantly accelerating hard and then almost immediately hitting the brakes. Complains that his truck gets mpg down in the low teens "Come On Man" funny part is he does not even seem to know he does this crazy stuff......

Over the 1st 1000 miles I am averaging 20.7 mpg so far it should get better as it gets broken in.
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Jsdirt Senior Enthusiast

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That's how everyone drives in MA - even the Prius owners. :lol:

 

I get about 14.5 lately. Lots of short trips and towing. With the car trailer and a 4k lb. vehicle onboard, I get 11.5 if I'm lucky. Used to get 16.5 commuting, after the engine broke in. Something is failing, and I haven't quite pinpointed it yet. I believe it's several things. Pistons, rings, and cam bearings are some of it ... :sick:

 

Best I ever got mileage wise in the 10 years I've owned this truck, was out West - was doing 94 mph for hours on I-80 through WY, UT and NV, motorcycle, camping gear, tools, etc., and my wife riding shotgun - got 19 MPG that trip. I attribute that to the ethanol free fuel & the elevation. Probably would've been in the 20's easily if I drove the speed limit.

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I think I got 17.6 out of mine a few weeks ago doing 65mph with the A/C on (hard calculated too). Never did a hard calc on any other trucks I've owned, but the best the DIC ever read on my 2011 6.2L was 15.2. They don't do too bad when you actually put forth effort in conserving fuel.

RyanbabZ71 Senior Enthusiast

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And on E85.. Those are good numbers. I will say the millage on my 15 6.2 is pretty stellar. I seem to always get 19.5 - 21 on the expressway doing 75-80.

 

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No 93 is why I have been running on the trip

 

 

Ryan B.

That's how everyone drives in MA - even the Prius owners. :lol:

 

I get about 14.5 lately. Lots of short trips and towing. With the car trailer and a 4k lb. vehicle onboard, I get 11.5 if I'm lucky. Used to get 16.5 commuting, after the engine broke in. Something is failing, and I haven't quite pinpointed it yet. I believe it's several things. Pistons, rings, and cam bearings are some of it ... :sick:

 

Best I ever got mileage wise in the 10 years I've owned this truck, was out West - was doing 94 mph for hours on I-80 through WY, UT and NV, motorcycle, camping gear, tools, etc., and my wife riding shotgun - got 19 MPG that trip. I attribute that to the ethanol free fuel & the elevation. Probably would've been in the 20's easily if I drove the speed limit.

State troopers everywhere you have to do the damn limit they have already been eyeing me since Indiana doesn't have front plates

 

 

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MikeNH Senior Enthusiast

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You do not want to get popped for 20 over in Virginia. Depending on the county you WILL spend a weekend in jail for it. Insanity.

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No 93 is why I have been running on the trip

 

 

Ryan B.

 

State troopers everywhere you have to do the damn limit they have already been eyeing me since Indiana doesn't have front plates

 

 

Ryan B.

 

MA is the same way - as soon as the warm weather came this spring, they were out for blood. Haven't seen that many cops out and about in all the decades I've lived here. Guess our tax money is running dry on Beacon Hill ...

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MA is the same way - as soon as the warm weather came this spring, they were out for blood. Haven't seen that many cops out and about in all the decades I've lived here. Guess our tax money is running dry on Beacon Hill ...

 

 

It's a thing apparently. I've read the NY State Police is running heavy handed in NYC, which apparently is uncommon. Cumo and DeBlasio are having a nice pissing match. haha

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RyanbabZ71 Senior Enthusiast

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You do not want to get popped for 20 over in Virginia. Depending on the county you WILL spend a weekend in jail for it. Insanity.

Watched a guy Friday morning roll through a red light, cop was in turning lane, flipped on his lights and got him. Saturday morning on my 1 hr drive seen 8 police cars all radaring this at 8am on Saturday

 

 

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Georgia State Patrol loves to sit in droves on an overpass on I75 a few miles north of the Florida line. They're like ants right there. Up on top of the overpass and parked on the opposite side of traffic on the slopes of the overpass. Pretty funny that my buddy and his dad have been warning each other and me for years about it. Both have been pulled over there. Of course they show their creds and get the "professional courtesy pass." lol turds

 

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Ravenkeeper Senior Enthusiast

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Georgia State Patrol loves to sit in droves on an overpass on I75 a few miles north of the Florida line. They're like ants right there. Up on top of the overpass and parked on the opposite side of traffic on the slopes of the overpass. Pretty funny that my buddy and his dad have been warning each other and me for years about it. Both have been pulled over there. Of course they show their creds and get the "professional courtesy pass." lol turds

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CHP does that too, the western most overpass on CA-58, watching the flow of traffic during "rush hours."

 

Up in the San Joaquin Valley, they would have one clocking on one on-ramp, and several others on the next one down the road. "Hunter/Killers."

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