What is your MPG?
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What is your MPG?
I am curious of what others are getting for their MPG. Please say year, engine, tire size, and if you have a lift or anything else that would cost fuel economy.
2005 powerstroke running 35" tires and lift. EGR delete, exhaust, intake, with built trans. I get 11 MPG combined no matter what.
2005 powerstroke running 35" tires and lift. EGR delete, exhaust, intake, with built trans. I get 11 MPG combined no matter what.
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That's good so you running a tune on it as well from 5Star? We have 4.30 gears on ours I don't quite know if I'm getting anything you are. We don't have the Y pipe from 5Star its all stock but we do have K&N, 4.30 gears and 265 tires as well. I feel after I cleaned the MAF and a few other items I get better mileage but again still have not manually calculated. The overhead always reads 10mpg.
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We use our Ex mainly for travelling, so I'm not sure of around town mpg.
Running interstates at 70 to 72 mph, I can usually average around 17.5 mpg.
Took it on a trip from Pa to Key West, via Myrtle Beach this year. Overall mpg was right at 17 with a large portion of that time running at 75 mph.
All hand calculated.
Running interstates at 70 to 72 mph, I can usually average around 17.5 mpg.
Took it on a trip from Pa to Key West, via Myrtle Beach this year. Overall mpg was right at 17 with a large portion of that time running at 75 mph.
All hand calculated.
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That's good so you running a tune on it as well from 5Star? We have 4.30 gears on ours I don't quite know if I'm getting anything you are. We don't have the Y pipe from 5Star its all stock but we do have K&N, 4.30 gears and 265 tires as well. I feel after I cleaned the MAF and a few other items I get better mileage but again still have not manually calculated. The overhead always reads 10mpg.
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Back when all stock our '05 V-10 4X4 did 14 MPG on 50/50 mixed daily driving and 15/15.5 MPG on the highway and 6/7 on the highway towing a 9,500lb toyhauler.
Now the same EX with 4.88 gears, 35.28" tires, 4" lift, Banks headers, Aerotubine 3030XL muffler and 5Star custom tunes no longer sees daily driving but it gets 12.5 MPG unloaded on the highway at 65 MPH and gets 8/9.5 MPG towing an 11,000lb travel trailer on the highway.
My Summer daily driver does a little better at 55/62 MPG, but it's a little smaller than the EX.
Now the same EX with 4.88 gears, 35.28" tires, 4" lift, Banks headers, Aerotubine 3030XL muffler and 5Star custom tunes no longer sees daily driving but it gets 12.5 MPG unloaded on the highway at 65 MPH and gets 8/9.5 MPG towing an 11,000lb travel trailer on the highway.
My Summer daily driver does a little better at 55/62 MPG, but it's a little smaller than the EX.
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Well unless mine is telling the truth I don't know why I can't get it to read anything more than 10mpg or less lol. So my thinking is, not working!
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These trucks can tow a large amount of weight but it seems that as soon as you lift and add some larger tires it drops pretty quickly. I'm tempted to get a set of factory rims and tires to see how much mine would go up.
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Reset it at every fill up.
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10.8 on the lie-o-meter(not reset recently) in town which is mostly what I drive, but I'm retired so it doesn't get driven a lot. I barely put on 500 miles a month if that, and most of it is to band practice(1/wk), church(2/wk) and the store. Pretty stock but with slightly smaller than stock tires, a 3ft res and a tune.
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I calculated about 7% different between the tires. I calculate that into my mpg also. I do not have the computer in my truck so I have no idea what that would say. I looked up that my tires run 26 lbs more than the factory tires each. Not sure about the rims.