I mean...c'mon! Will it ever end?
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I mean...c'mon! Will it ever end?
What's with diesel owners?? 27mpg in this!? I think not.
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I actually kind of like his vehicle. Do you think he'd give me a money back guarantee on that fuel economy claim if I offer to buy it? 
Seriously, I do have a friend who has an Excursion just about like that one (sans the huge front bumper thing) and he does get 14.7 MPG on the highway even with his lift kit and larger tires. I know I don't have larger tires or a lift kit, but I have to wonder how close I can get to that on the highway with my V10 Excursion?? I'm yet to take any highway only trip. I know in town I am looking up at 10 MPG with a bunch of stop and go driving in hills, but so is my friend with his 7.3 PowerStroke I just described.
On the lighter side, my friend with the nice PS Excursion wants to race me with my completely stock V10. I honestly think he'd run away from me; especially with his mods to his engine. Still, I told him that he had to spot me $10....that's $10 for the gas just for one run against him.
Seriously, I do have a friend who has an Excursion just about like that one (sans the huge front bumper thing) and he does get 14.7 MPG on the highway even with his lift kit and larger tires. I know I don't have larger tires or a lift kit, but I have to wonder how close I can get to that on the highway with my V10 Excursion?? I'm yet to take any highway only trip. I know in town I am looking up at 10 MPG with a bunch of stop and go driving in hills, but so is my friend with his 7.3 PowerStroke I just described.
On the lighter side, my friend with the nice PS Excursion wants to race me with my completely stock V10. I honestly think he'd run away from me; especially with his mods to his engine. Still, I told him that he had to spot me $10....that's $10 for the gas just for one run against him.
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I like how the miles in it are listed as 99,600. If you look at the picture of the pillar guages, you can see the back of the inspection sticker. Looks like it had 120,000 when it was inspected last, on 4-9-07. 
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I don't believe it on his rig, but I read an article in a fall issue of dieselpower where a fella had TS Performance design an all out best mpg computer mod (i imagine a very large down tune) and he pulled 26-27 mpg out of a 2wd f250. Again that magazine is very very biased.
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Actually this guy might not be lying…he might just be dumb. I believe (I could be wrong) that the little computer display thingy that the Excursions and upscale trucks have that tells you your fuel mileage gets it’s feedback from the mass air flow sensor. Instead of measuring how much fuel is being used it calculates how much fuel should be used by how much air is being suck into the motor. Seeing how this truck has some aftermarket parts that undoubtedly increases intake airflow that part of the computer is getting false readings. Lord only knows what that “Quadzilla Chip” thing throws into the equation and I’d bet that there was anything taken into a count for the taller tires. Probably this fellow, and a bunch of the other diesel knuckleheads out there, aren’t smart enough to actually measure their fuel mileage and are just going by what their trucks are telling them.
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Originally Posted by Ace!
I believe everything I read on the Internet...so, in my opinion, which is worth quite a bit (as I'm a very important person), it's 100% true.
ahhh...well...ahhh... biz
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Originally Posted by Ace!
I believe everything I read on the Internet...so, in my opinion, which is worth quite a bit (as I'm a very important person), it's 100% true.
Hey Ace!
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Never have understood something, but there's nothing new there... If you had an engine with solenoid-controlled valves like the 5.4, and you modified the computer to only feed a quarter of the normal fuel into it, wouldn't the result be a slow vehicle with better mpg? Or in the final analysis is the mpg really determined by vehicle weight?
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Originally Posted by MarkMoore
Voice in my head telling me - this is the internet and he believes everything he reads...
Hey Ace!
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Hey Ace!
If you send me $1000 right now great fortune will bestoe upon you!
Anything, im listenin mark.