The Chevy Had a Good Day!

UplandPa · April 23, 2016

My Chevy Silverado had a good day today...a real good day!

A buddy of mine who owns a 2015 Tundra and I decided to take a trip to my hunting camp in preparation for the spring turkey hunting season. I wasn't sure if I was going to stay over so we took the two trucks. The hunting camp is about 3 1/2 hours away.

Anyway we decided to check our gas mileage, he set his for the trip which is mostly highway till you get close to camp. I was just going to use my 400 mile average, so that would include my previous around town mileage. After a couple of hours of driving we stopped for coffee and donuts. His mileage best was at 16.8, mine had gone up to 21.6 for the last 400, THAT'S A HUGE DIFFERENCE, but more of that later!

At Camp there is a grass uphill road leading to the cabin, I opened the gate and went right up. He tried several times, but had to put it in 4WD to make it up. My buddy was having a bad day!

We did what we needed to do at camp and decided to head home. He wanted to drive my truck on the hi-way and I really don't let anyone drive my vehicles, but he's a good friend so I let him, plus I could drive his new Tundra. Guys...I drove that thing for about an hour and let me tell you there's no comparison, our trucks ride WAAAY better. When we stopped to get burgers and switch back to our own trucks he looked at me and said, dam that thing rides nice!

And to top it off when I got home and checked my last 400 mi. average it was at 23.7!!

Yep the Chevy had a good day....a real good day!

15 Z71 · April 23, 2016

My Chevy Silverado had a good day today...a real good day!

A buddy of mine who owns a 2015 Tundra and I decided to take a trip to my hunting camp in preparation for the spring turkey hunting season. I wasn't sure if I was going to stay over so we took the two trucks. The hunting camp is about 3 1/2 hours away.

Anyway we decided to check our gas mileage, he set his for the trip which is mostly highway till you get close to camp. I was just going to use my 400 mile average, so that would include my previous around town mileage. After a couple of hours of driving we stopped for coffee and donuts. His mileage best was at 16.8, mine had gone up to 21.6 for the last 400, THAT'S A HUGE DIFFERENCE, but more of that later!

At Camp there is a grass uphill road leading to the cabin, I opened the gate and went right up. He tried several times, but had to put it in 4WD to make it up. My buddy was having a bad day!

We did what we needed to do at camp and decided to head home. He wanted to drive my truck on the hi-way and I really don't let anyone drive my vehicles, but he's a good friend so I let him, plus I could drive his new Tundra. Guys...I drove that thing for about an hour and let me tell you there's no comparison, our trucks ride WAAAY better. When we stopped to get burgers and switch back to our own trucks he looked at me and said, dam that thing rides nice!

And to top it off when I got home and checked my last 400 mi. average it was at 23.7!!

Yep the Chevy had a good day....a real good day!

that's sweet! Love hearing stories like this.lol

Silverado Steve · April 24, 2016

A coworker of mine has a 2015 Tundra Platinum. When he sees my mpg readout in the gauge cluster he asks if it's legit. He always says how nice my truck is and if he had to do it all over again he'd get a Silverado. Oh, he's had his windshield leak twice and the headliner replaced from water damage. Toyotas are not bulletproof like so many want to believe.

UplandPa · April 24, 2016

My buddy regrets his too, he's a good friend and works hard for his money so I try to say something nice about his Tundra, but he knows!

fishlessam · April 24, 2016

Sell that to gm to use as advertising

MikeNH · April 24, 2016

It is hardly a surprise. Toyota hasn't pursued fuel saving tech like GM. Frankly I'm partially of the mind that the reduced mpg is wort not having AFM and a front air dam just inches off the ground.

Britt Lifsey · April 24, 2016

Nice day! While no comparisons to a Tundra, we took the truck to daughters for a visit which is an 75 mile venture through Atlanta. Ran many miles 70-80 mph and ride was great. Love my truck :-)

UplandPa · April 24, 2016

Nice day! While no comparisons to a Tundra, we took the truck to daughters for a visit which is an 75 mile venture through Atlanta. Ran many miles 70-80 mph and ride was great. Love my truck :-)

You're not alone my friend!

Brian2015 · April 24, 2016

Everyone compliments how nice my 2016 Sil-vuh-ray-doh rides. It's amazing that a pick up truck rides nicer than a car.

On a side note, my friend owns a small mom & pop car lot and service center. He has a customer with a newer Tundra, when they put it up on the lift they said you could see the frame flexing.

Brian2015 · April 24, 2016

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Daryl LBZ · April 24, 2016

It is hardly a surprise. Toyota hasn't pursued fuel saving tech like GM. Frankly I'm partially of the mind that the reduced mpg is wort not having AFM and a front air dam just inches off the ground.

You read my mind.

UplandPa · April 24, 2016

Yea but the MPG isn't even close, we could remove the air dam and AFM and still blow them away! Plus the ride quality is night and day difference.

MikeNH · April 24, 2016

Yea but the MPG isn't even close, we could remove the air dam and AFM and still blow them away! Plus the ride quality is night and day difference.

Maybe, maybe not. Direct injection certainly helps the GM engines but if you start taking off or disabling the efficiency stuff, I'm not sure GM would still win.

GM trucks probably are quieter, that is one thing GM has gotten incredibly good at. As for ride, I haven't had a chance to drive a Tundra yet so I can't comment for sure but I feel that currently the Ram is probably the one to beat.

As for the hill climb, that one does surprise me since GM is putting embarrassingly tame tires on the new trucks.

bboyce536 · April 24, 2016

I deleted Afm on my 6.2 and still get the same 25 mile averages. My theory is that if you are driving light enough on the throttle to get into v4 mode, you're still going to get great mpg in v8. I think Afm is a bit of a gimmick that works in theory or in the lab, but not so much real world.

Fwiw, afm deleted, air damn removed and duratrac 33's still pull 20 mpg doing 75-80 on the highway