Real world MPG on your v10
#76
08-29-2015, 07:57 PM
#77
08-30-2015, 12:50 PM
Had my 99 2v V10 for a few months now, just put my 8th tank of gas in it. Never been on the freeway, mix of city-country-towing the boat. I've averaged 10.7 mpg on 285/75 with 3.73 gears.
All the towing has been in the hills, towing my boat to the lake every weekend. I didn't get much better milage from my throttle body 1/2 ton chevy, so I'm pretty happy with it.
All the towing has been in the hills, towing my boat to the lake every weekend. I didn't get much better milage from my throttle body 1/2 ton chevy, so I'm pretty happy with it.
#78
08-31-2015, 09:07 AM
<p>In the tech folder:</p><p>https://www.ford-trucks.com/forums/8...ml#post8054262</p><p>It might be time for more people to post in those threads <img alt="Okay!" src="https://www.ford-trucks.com/forums/images/smilies2/thumb.gif" style="height:18px; width:25px" title="Okay!" /></p>
#79
08-31-2015, 01:19 PM
^^ This... Makes me wonder if people are flat lying or if I'm doing something wrong?! We live at ~650ft elevation and I don't drive it like a sports car, but I'm aweful lucky to see double digit economy on anything but an extended road trip with the cruise set at 60 or less. Anything above 60 and it drops like a rock, and if it even sniffs a trailer back there it drop to single digit mpg territory
#80
08-31-2015, 07:27 PM
Alright enough of this hogwash 
Seeing as this thread states "Real world MPG of your v10", here is my real world MPG tracked. Of course I'm probably lying with the numbers in my app too. Ha. Proof in my numbers, but mine will be worse with the dual rear wheels and it's constantly attached to a trailer.
Here lies the problem with this. This is MY real world mpg. Maybe your real world is all highway driving. If so my mpg has no bearing on what "average" is for someone else. Right?
Good day fellas. Lets all just be nice and not name call, no reason for that stuff.
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Seeing as this thread states "Real world MPG of your v10", here is my real world MPG tracked. Of course I'm probably lying with the numbers in my app too. Ha. Proof in my numbers, but mine will be worse with the dual rear wheels and it's constantly attached to a trailer.
Here lies the problem with this. This is MY real world mpg. Maybe your real world is all highway driving. If so my mpg has no bearing on what "average" is for someone else. Right?
Good day fellas. Lets all just be nice and not name call, no reason for that stuff.
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One year later and my numbers haven't budged from my post.
**See original post above for the photo.
Just shy of 9 for avg and 6/11 for low/high.
#82
09-01-2015, 08:09 AM
<p>OK, so I chimed in and didn't read the intervening posts, and now I've cleaned up some of the posts. PLAY NICE OR GO HOME.</p><p>That being said, I have made a round trip from Long Island into Upstate New York, round trip around 500 miles, a total of about 15 times, with my V10, 3.73 gears, and a cap/topper on the back (which seems to help MPGs). Along with usually around 1000 lbs in the bed, kids, wife, and even the dog.</p><p>I have often come up with 16MPG figures, hand-calculated. Once I even got 17.1</p><p>At various times, stock exhaust, headers, modded y-pipe, 5-star tune, they all seemed affect my MPGs one way or the other, but overall, not by more than a few tenths of a gallon/mile.</p><p>Now to the controversial part: I've regularly made 90MPH on long straight stretches of highway on that trip. Not for long, not consistently, but top speed of 90. With no one in front of me for at least a 1/2 mile, all I have to do is let up on the gas pedal for a few 1/10ths of a second and I'm back down into "safe" territory (according to all you safety experts), much less a tap of the brake.</p><p>Think I'm lying? Go back over the past 10 years of my posts in this forum, you'll see the same assertions by me over all that time.</p><p>Why did I get such great mileage? 3.73 gears and the bed cap/topper. The cap was worth about .5 mpgs on the occasions I made that trip without it. Also, a topic we discussed here years back, was that my truck in particular, and some others with 3.73 gears, seemed to get better MPGs at 70-75 or close to 80, than when we did 60-65. If you look at the torque curve of the old PI-head 2-valve, there is a dip right where us people with 3.73's run at 60-65. A little faster and the torque curve comes back up a bit.</p><p>All bets are off on the 3-valve, as most here when they first got their 2005's reported worse MPGs than us 2-valvers.</p><p>Now CALM DOWN everyone. <img alt="Evil Grin" src="https://www.ford-trucks.com/forums/images/smilies2/evilgrin0007.gif" style="height:19px; width:21px" title="Evil Grin" /></p>
#84
09-01-2015, 08:45 PM
I just got back from a 250 mile round trip with approx 1000 pounds in bed.90 percent highway and one traffic jam because of an accident,filled truck when leaving and refilled 2 miles from home on return trip. gas mileage was 13.9, if not for traffic jam Im sure it would have been over 14mpg
#86
09-02-2015, 01:03 AM
<p>OK, so I chimed in and didn't read the intervening posts, and now I've cleaned up some of the posts. PLAY NICE OR GO HOME.</p><p>That being said, I have made a round trip from Long Island into Upstate New York, round trip around 500 miles, a total of about 15 times, with my V10, 3.73 gears, and a cap/topper on the back (which seems to help MPGs). Along with usually around 1000 lbs in the bed, kids, wife, and even the dog.</p><p>I have often come up with 16MPG figures, hand-calculated. Once I even got 17.1</p><p>At various times, stock exhaust, headers, modded y-pipe, 5-star tune, they all seemed affect my MPGs one way or the other, but overall, not by more than a few tenths of a gallon/mile.</p><p>Now to the controversial part: I've regularly made 90MPH on long straight stretches of highway on that trip. Not for long, not consistently, but top speed of 90. With no one in front of me for at least a 1/2 mile, all I have to do is let up on the gas pedal for a few 1/10ths of a second and I'm back down into "safe" territory (according to all you safety experts), much less a tap of the brake.</p><p>Think I'm lying? Go back over the past 10 years of my posts in this forum, you'll see the same assertions by me over all that time.</p><p>Why did I get such great mileage? 3.73 gears and the bed cap/topper. The cap was worth about .5 mpgs on the occasions I made that trip without it. Also, a topic we discussed here years back, was that my truck in particular, and some others with 3.73 gears, seemed to get better MPGs at 70-75 or close to 80, than when we did 60-65. If you look at the torque curve of the old PI-head 2-valve, there is a dip right where us people with 3.73's run at 60-65. A little faster and the torque curve comes back up a bit.</p><p>All bets are off on the 3-valve, as most here when they first got their 2005's reported worse MPGs than us 2-valvers.</p><p>Now CALM DOWN everyone. <img alt="Evil Grin" src="https://www.ford-trucks.com/forums/images/smilies2/evilgrin0007.gif" style="height:19px; width:21px" title="Evil Grin" /></p>
The one thing that you said that nobody really thinks about is how you use your breaks..... 90mph (or any speed under that) and down using your breaks is using the gas that got it to that speed through your brakes friction to slow it down. Thinking ahead and coasting to lower speeds will boost mpg,s more than having the light foot on the skinny pedal.
#88
09-02-2015, 11:39 PM
Just my 2¢ worth, every truck is different even if it has the V10 badge on the fender. What works for one won't necessarily work for another as far as speed, there are numerous factors to every truck for MPG's, aerodynamics, gear ratio, tires, driver input and on and on. The only real way did find the MPG sweet spot is pick a driving style and stick to it for several tanks of gas and see what it yields then try a different one and see if you can make it better, but you are doing pretty normal for a V10.
#90
09-04-2015, 09:43 AM
Great numbers
OK, so I chimed in and didn't read the intervening posts, and now I've cleaned up some of the posts. PLAY NICE OR GO HOME.
That being said, I have made a round trip from Long Island into Upstate New York, round trip around 500 miles, a total of about 15 times, with my V10, 3.73 gears, and a cap/topper on the back (which seems to help MPGs). Along with usually around 1000 lbs in the bed, kids, wife, and even the dog.
I have often come up with 16MPG figures, hand-calculated. Once I even got 17.1
At various times, stock exhaust, headers, modded y-pipe, 5-star tune, they all seemed affect my MPGs one way or the other, but overall, not by more than a few tenths of a gallon/mile.
Now to the controversial part: I've regularly made 90MPH on long straight stretches of highway on that trip. Not for long, not consistently, but top speed of 90. With no one in front of me for at least a 1/2 mile, all I have to do is let up on the gas pedal for a few 1/10ths of a second and I'm back down into "safe" territory (according to all you safety experts), much less a tap of the brake.
Think I'm lying? Go back over the past 10 years of my posts in this forum, you'll see the same assertions by me over all that time.
Why did I get such great mileage? 3.73 gears and the bed cap/topper. The cap was worth about .5 mpgs on the occasions I made that trip without it. Also, a topic we discussed here years back, was that my truck in particular, and some others with 3.73 gears, seemed to get better MPGs at 70-75 or close to 80, than when we did 60-65. If you look at the torque curve of the old PI-head 2-valve, there is a dip right where us people with 3.73's run at 60-65. A little faster and the torque curve comes back up a bit.
All bets are off on the 3-valve, as most here when they first got their 2005's reported worse MPGs than us 2-valvers.
Now CALM DOWN everyone.
That being said, I have made a round trip from Long Island into Upstate New York, round trip around 500 miles, a total of about 15 times, with my V10, 3.73 gears, and a cap/topper on the back (which seems to help MPGs). Along with usually around 1000 lbs in the bed, kids, wife, and even the dog.
I have often come up with 16MPG figures, hand-calculated. Once I even got 17.1
At various times, stock exhaust, headers, modded y-pipe, 5-star tune, they all seemed affect my MPGs one way or the other, but overall, not by more than a few tenths of a gallon/mile.
Now to the controversial part: I've regularly made 90MPH on long straight stretches of highway on that trip. Not for long, not consistently, but top speed of 90. With no one in front of me for at least a 1/2 mile, all I have to do is let up on the gas pedal for a few 1/10ths of a second and I'm back down into "safe" territory (according to all you safety experts), much less a tap of the brake.
Think I'm lying? Go back over the past 10 years of my posts in this forum, you'll see the same assertions by me over all that time.
Why did I get such great mileage? 3.73 gears and the bed cap/topper. The cap was worth about .5 mpgs on the occasions I made that trip without it. Also, a topic we discussed here years back, was that my truck in particular, and some others with 3.73 gears, seemed to get better MPGs at 70-75 or close to 80, than when we did 60-65. If you look at the torque curve of the old PI-head 2-valve, there is a dip right where us people with 3.73's run at 60-65. A little faster and the torque curve comes back up a bit.
All bets are off on the 3-valve, as most here when they first got their 2005's reported worse MPGs than us 2-valvers.
Now CALM DOWN everyone.
My Uncle with a 2010 V10 extended cab, 4x4, Manuel 6 speed, long bed gets about the same. I did not believe him until we went elk hunting. I offered to trade him my King Range for his XLT and he turned my down.
Our V10 still gets me around 10-11. But I have traffic and California gasohol. When I can get non-alcoholic gas the numbers improve. Long trips out of California I have gotten 13-14, which is a huge improvement.
California GAS is running about 3.40 a gallon right now and diesel is running about 2.50. CA Runs a special blend not used anywhere else. I think this is the biggest problem for our V10 with Mileage.