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Fuel Range is way off

Friggin’ Amazing

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Hey guys, I’m two weeks in my 2022 Ram 1500 Bighorn 5.7L Hemi and I’m loving this truck With the exceptio of my fuel range. From what I’ve read my fuel range with a full tank should be over 350 miles to empty but mine shows at 210 miles to empty. Also How do I find out phow big my fuel tank is, without dropping down to near empty??”

is there a fuel range reset button or something??

thanks in advance everyone
 

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It self adjust depending on what your current mpg is.. if you go from say in town stop and go driving till lets say interstate it’ll adjust based on the MPG your currently getting. I can go from in town which might read 300 miles to empty and jump on the interstate to head out of town and that 300 miles to empty will eventually readjust and recalculate based of hwy mpg all while I use Maps (carplay) to navigate that will obviously show distance etc.
 

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Hey guys, I’m two weeks in my 2022 Ram 1500 Bighorn 5.7L Hemi and I’m loving this truck With the exceptio of my fuel range. From what I’ve read my fuel range with a full tank should be over 350 miles to empty but mine shows at 210 miles to empty. Also How do I find out phow big my fuel tank is, without dropping down to near empty??”

is there a fuel range reset button or something??

thanks in advance everyone
does it have different size tires from stock?

If so I would hand calculate to compare
 

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its Completely stock, no changes yet. I’m just perplexed because my 2015 Custom Jeep on 40’s has a 22.5 gallln tank and my range shows as 380 to 400 miles to empty. My wife’s Kia k5 shows what the manual states. I’ve never driven a vehicle that showed under 200 miles to empty on a full tank
 

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its Completely stock, no changes yet. I’m just perplexed because my 2015 Custom Jeep on 40’s has a 22.5 gallln tank and my range shows as 380 to 400 miles to empty. My wife’s Kia k5 shows what the manual states. I’ve never driven a vehicle that showed under 200 miles to empty on a full tank
That distance is based on the average mpg for a very short recent distance and the amount of fuel left. It doesn't matter if you zero everything at a fillup. I've started my truck at the gas station, zeroed everything, sat idling in the driveway waiting for a gap, accelerated hard out of there, and shown 10.8 average mpg for the quarter mile I've driven. It's nonsense. It's nice when I've been getting great mileage, maybe with a whole lot of downhill, and it shows 525 miles to empty with a full 26 gallon tank, but that range collapses within a day, rather dramatically. Like two miles of driving erasing forty miles of range.

Your tank size should show on the window sticker; mine did. Just add your vin to the end https://www.chrysler.com/hostd/windowsticker/getWindowStickerPdf.do?vin=

Edit to add Build Sheet https://www.ramtrucks.com/webselfservice/BuildSheetServlet?vin=
 

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That distance is based on the average mpg for a very short recent distance and the amount of fuel left. It doesn't matter if you zero everything at a fillup. I've started my truck at the gas station, zeroed everything, sat idling in the driveway waiting for a gap, accelerated hard out of there, and shown 10.8 average mpg for the quarter mile I've driven. It's nonsense. It's nice when I've been getting great mileage, maybe with a whole lot of downhill, and it shows 525 miles to empty with a full 26 gallon tank, but that range collapses within a day, rather dramatically. Like two miles of driving erasing forty miles of range.

Your tank size should show on the window sticker; mine did. Just add your vin to the end https://www.chrysler.com/hostd/windowsticker/getWindowStickerPdf.do?vin=

Edit to add Build Sheet https://www.ramtrucks.com/webselfservice/BuildSheetServlet?vin=
True. Whats your average mpg say @Friggin’ Amazing ?
 

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