raptor1968
Kansas
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 I average 8mpg at 65mph. Truck has a HEMI and 3.73 gears. Trailer is close to 7000lbs.
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advntrs
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DON O..............RVing and MPG is an oximoron!!!!
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K3WE
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At the risk of hijacking the thread, you have to figure how much gas you can buy with the $$ you save from the $100/night motel.
Or at the risk of REALLY hijacking the thread- do we only save $80/night or do we camp at Wal Mart.
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raptor1968
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build a campfire in a motel parking lot and see what happens, camping is not about saving money to me, its about meeting other campers and not having to worry about a damn thing in life,
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K3WE
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After reading a lot of 65 vs 55 posts, I did a little math.
On a 500 mile trip, driving 65 gets you there 1 hour and 24 minutes sooner.
If this makes your MPG drop from 10 to 8, and gas is 2.50, you will pay $31.25 MORE in gas. If time = money, you are paying $22.35/ for every hour you gain.
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jellenn
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With our old truck (98 1500 chevy) we got 7-9 mpg pulling current trailer. With the new duramax we get 11-14 depending on wind. But,.... we are in north central Indiana,.. the biggest hills we encounter are the curbs at the driveway. I heard a wonderful quote once, I think on these forums. "it gets phenominal milage,.. for a house." =-) keep on camping.
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roamerr
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I'll pay $25 an hour to get the drive over sooner. The drive from my house to Cedar Point is 9 hours and I would gladly pay $100 to make it 5 hours...
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shum02
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roamerr wrote:I'll pay $25 an hour to get the drive over sooner. The drive from my house to Cedar Point is 9 hours and I would gladly pay $100 to make it 5 hours...
9hrsx60mph=540miles
5hrsx108mph=540miles
Ummm, I don't think ya wanna go that fast even without a trailer attached on a puublic road.
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rfryer
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The mileage doesn’t sound right to me. I have a similar combo, a 2001 F-150 5.4 with a 3.56 rear end and a 16’ sub 3000# loaded TT. I looked back at my records and my mileage is much better and I don’t know what to attribute the difference to. Solo at high speed on the freeway I get somewhat over 18mpg. Over thousands of miles pulling my TT I have gotten from a low of 10.6 to a high of 17.2 on individual tanks. But my overall average is 13.7. Being in the west a great deal of my towing is in the Rockies and I only drive freeways when there are no secondary roads to take. So my driving speed is mostly in the 50-60 range, but I also do a lot of serious climbing. Even on the freeway my max is 65. One 2000 mile all freeway trip I made east I did average 13.8. If you didn’t have a computer feeding you mpg I’d think you just didn’t have enough history to get good numbers, but that doesn’t seem to be the case. You didn’t mention your rear end ratio and that could be a factor, but it wouldn’t explain that amount of difference. I’d try slowing down and see what that does to your mileage; wind resistance is a major player. If the mileage were still bad at a slower speed I’d start wondering if I had brakes dragging or some other mechanical glitch
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roamerr
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shum02 -- I did not mean to imply that I could make it to Cedar Point in 5 hours. My intent was to simply say that an hour of riding savings is worth $25 to me. I think my Hemi could pull my Toyhauler at 108mph but the fuel economy would be below 2mpg.... LOL
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