pianotuna
Regina, SK, Canada
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Hi all,
The equipment: a 28'5" class C E-450 fully loaded weight of 13750 lbs. It has oversize wheels and tires to improve clearance. It has air tabs.
The trip was on pretty much flat prairie from Davidson Sk, to Pike Lake Sk and back. I'm a slow driver at 80 kph (50 mph)
Distance 371.5 kilometres (230.8 miles)
Fuel 83.609 litres (22.087 us gallons)
That works out to 22.6 litres per 100 k or 10.4 mpg US (13 mpg imperial)
Cost was $127.78 cdn
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edited 05/14/23 10:57am by pianotuna *
Regards, Don
My ride is a 28 foot Class C, 256 watts solar, 556 amp-hours of Telcom jars, 3000 watt Magnum hybrid inverter, Sola Basic Autoformer, Microair Easy Start.
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rjstractor
Maple Valley, WA
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That sounds pretty typical. I haven't had a C for several years, but I had a 1998 Gulfstream built on an E-Super Duty (which later became the E450) with the gas V10. I often towed a 3000 lb-ish car. My mileage ranged from about 7-7.5 pulling the car at freeway speeds traveling from Western to Eastern Washington, and I could squeeze out close to 10 running solo down to the ocean with slower speeds and less freeway driving.
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wa8yxm
Davison Michigan (East of Flint)
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pianotuna wrote:
That works out to 22.6 litres per 100 k or 10.4 mpg US (13 mpg imperial)
Mine was a 37' Class A 8.1L vortec allison. With towed
Original towed a 4.000 pound Chevy Lumina APV I got about 8 MPG
Second towed 2500 pound Dodge Neon about 7 (I do know why)
Now tow and a fresh wax job I hit 11 going East 10 west.
Yes I waxed before my semi-annual migrations.
Now days the MH is gone all I have is a 2014 JEEP with a ceramic wax job and a half (Actually two complete coats of heavy duty Ceramic coating
Around 23 MPG average... 30+ at 65mph 40 at 55
I looked up a 2020 Jeep Electric 22-23 MPGe So I'm as Green as if I drove an EV. perhaps Greener..
Home was where I park it. but alas the.
2005 Damon Intruder 377 Alas declared a total loss
after a semi "nicked" it. Still have the radios
Kenwood TS-2000, ICOM ID-5100, ID-51A+2, ID-880 REF030C most times
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wildtoad
Blythewood, SC
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I have nothing to compare that too, cause I’d go to sleep if I drove 50mph unless it was in a 45 mph zone. I typically do around 65, and usually get in the high 7’s.
Tom Wilds
Blythewood, SC
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JaxDad
Greater Toronto Area
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pianotuna wrote:I'm a slow driver at 80 kph (50 mph)
In this part of Cannuckistan everyone, including the nun driving the school bus, would be flipping you off for doing just 80 ……. In 60 zones! LOL
Seriously, at 80 in an 80 zone, you will attract a lot of attention and very likely get pulled over to see if everything is OK, in a 100 zone you’d likely get a ticket.
I do however put a lot of miles (km’s?) on my C doing 90 - 95 (in 80 zone) and generally get 11 - 11.5 Imperial (9 - 9.5 US) mpg doing so without a trailer, 9 - 9.5 (7.5 - 8 US mpg) with a (2k pound) trailer.
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Cptnvideo
Arizona - most of the time
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Before our current 42' 5th wheel, we had a 27' Class C, E-450, V-10. Drove at the speed limit or 60 MPH when the speed limit was 60 or higher, did not tow anything. 9.91 MPG overall for the time we owned it.
Bill & Linda
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StirCrazy
Kamloops, BC, Canada
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Can't say anything about an 80kph speed, but I tend to do 95kph and I am in the mountains and Alberta so pretty mixed driving.... get the hills in the mountians and the prairie winds in Alberta.
if I stay driving nice (95kph) I can get as low as 18L/100km (13MPG US/ 15.6MPG CDN) when I am in a strong headwind and try to do the speed limit in Alberta, that can drop down to 22L/100km (10.6MPG US / 12.8MPG CDN.
I did just tune my truck a bot better so I will see at the end of June what I get going to Alberta and back now. It sure improved my empty fuel milage.
Steve
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WinMinnie02
NJ
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8 miles to a gallon E450 V10, beautiful powerful engine.
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Goostoff
Wisconsin
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Chevy C3500 with mildly built 454 gas, and 5 speed manual pulling 35' 5th wheel with 3 slides. I average 4 MPG. Needless to say we dont travel very far from home.
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SJ-Chris
San Jose, Ca
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I've got two 30' Class Cs with the 450 Superduty V10. I tend to drive the speed limit (so 65-70mph on most freeways around here). I always seem to get between 7.0-8.0mpg (average around 7.5mpg). I have a smaller 23' Class C that seems to get a similar mpg (...thought it would be better, but sadly no).
-Chris
San Jose, CA
Own two 2015 Thor Majestic 28a Class C RVs
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