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Looking at your dash, if you're using the Ford "Lie-O-Meter" to tell you your MPG, I'd say you're probably getting more like 8 flat. They're notorious for being "a little off".
It can be a "lie-o-meter" if you don't refill the same way at each gas stop. I find mine to be very close and sometimes if not dead on to the gallons used.
On this last trip with the pic showing the mpg when I top-off the gas tank, it took exactly 30.0 gallons, the trip meter read 29.9 gallons used.
I refill at the pumps will the auto-shut off, after the 1st kick-off I repeat twice more at the same setting on the gas nozzle, then put the gas nozzle back in the gas pump. I don't manually add more gas to round up to the next whole dollar or to the next full gallon, this is where I believe the lie-o-meter has issues with.
I prefer to top-off at 1/4 of a tank but sometimes that can't be done. I do know with my F350's 35 gallon tank that when the low fuel light kicks on I have 8 gallons of gas left in the gas tank, miles to empty read-out is also very close to what I really have as well.
I knew this up front on the mpg with the 6.2L w/4.3 gears while towing, these mpg numbers are fine with me.
I don't use the F350 for a every day vehicle but the last time I drove it for a couple of hundred miles empty I avg 12.2 @ 75mph.
Ok, OP, we played along. So how about telling us what your MPG numbers were?
I just got my truck and trailer. Only used it once for a 200 mile round trip but could only use the lie o meter because the EVAP was clogged and couldn't get a good judge on a fill up. But at 60 I got over 10. At 75 8.7.
Looking at your dash, if you're using the Ford "Lie-O-Meter" to tell you your MPG, I'd say you're probably getting more like 8 flat. They're notorious for being "a little off".
I was finally able to manually calculate my mileage. Up until now I had a clogged EVAP and couldn't let the pump do the work. At the same pump at the same station once it clicks I let it click one more time. I don't round up to the nearest dollar. Lie O Meter said 10.1. Calculated 8.3. I put in several gallons more than what the trip said I used. This mpg would be suburban city driving (live 45 south of Chicago). Disappointed I ran out to get spark plugs. Changing them tonight.
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