mpg input wanted
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Does yours consistently read high? Mine doesn't.
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Most of the improvement seems to be courtesy of an SCR system that allows the engineers to use less efficiency-robbing EGR as well as tuning the injection timing and combustion cycle for more efficiency.
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A substantial portion of all SDs go to fleets. Fleets could care less what the meter says. They track maintenance, fuel, etc. costs completely independently.
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Doesnt ford have a fleet software that does this as a option now? "Ford work solutions" when you put in fuel it reads your milage and all and you tell it how much fuel and the dollar amount? Than it does that email report when you ask it too.
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Curious, what does yours read? The 6.4's I've seen (fleet) read around 11.5, but average just under 9 when looking at gallons purchased vs. miles driven. Percentage wise, that's a huge difference.
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No, they are not at all babying the trucks, but the dodges(barf) are pulling off 10+mpg in the same fleet, both lots of idle time too.
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I will add, our tracking is accurate as our trucks can not fuel up unless we enter the odometer in the fuel station, it will not fuel up if entering below the last time it was fueled, and will not fuel up if the odometer is to high.(based on the programing, example: entering odoometer 2000kms since last fuel up will not allow fueling) So the MPG has been averaged since the day we got our trucks. Keep in mind our trucks only fill up at our company owned sites.
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Towing 11,000 lbs up here I got between 8.5-10, and the LOM was never more than 0.5 MPG off.
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picking up my new one today
I closed the deal on a f250 xlt crew cab, short bed 4X4 yesterday. 6.7 liter with 3.31 axles. Will be taking a 1000 mile trip hauling my 5th wheel at the end of May, I will moniter fuel use closely and post the results when I get back.
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Congratulations! Post photos of the 5th wheel hitch install in that short bed. I'll be doing the same thing next summer.
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I'm sure that I speak for others when I say both congrats on the new truck and we'll all be eagerly awaiting the results from your trip (fuel economy and towing power). Enjoy it!
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What am I missing with everyone referring to the average mpg readout as the "lie-o-meter"?
My F150 reads accurate to within a couple tenths of hand calculation. My buddy's '04 SD PSD6.0 reads within a similar margin.
Everyone knows they are a 500 mile average, right? Maybe its just me, but I've stopped dividing miles driven by gallons to fill up at each fillup simply because it has always been accurate.
And...
If you are seeing different results between the meter and your hand-calculation, its probably because you put a couple extra (or too few)squeezes of fuel in the tank. So technically, dividing miles driven by gallons to fill-up at the pump is far less accurate.
Sorry to rant...
My F150 reads accurate to within a couple tenths of hand calculation. My buddy's '04 SD PSD6.0 reads within a similar margin.
Everyone knows they are a 500 mile average, right? Maybe its just me, but I've stopped dividing miles driven by gallons to fill up at each fillup simply because it has always been accurate.
And...
If you are seeing different results between the meter and your hand-calculation, its probably because you put a couple extra (or too few)squeezes of fuel in the tank. So technically, dividing miles driven by gallons to fill-up at the pump is far less accurate.
Sorry to rant...
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How small is your tank? Those numbers are for around a 20 gallon tank.
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Its a 24gallon, according to fords site only the supercabs get the 24gallon tank but it seems all the crew cabs ive seen have it.
As for how accurate the DTE thing is, and how much of a buffer of fuel at 0 miles to go, I dont know.
As for how accurate the DTE thing is, and how much of a buffer of fuel at 0 miles to go, I dont know.