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Poor gas mileage

This is my fill-up from today.

2 weeks of driving mostly highway with some city driving.
You can find my average speed based upon the hours and milage (no idling) avg speed was 37 MPH (which seems low to me)
Got a whopping 14.9 MPH on a 22 Limited with stock 22 all seasons. RIP.
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ferraiolo1 said:
It is more the wind resistance.
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Actually it's not, unless you're towing something that has high drag.
Did you know the RAM has a drag coefficient of 0.357 which is about the same as a 1990's VW Jetta?
A lot of people think the RAM is a brick in the wind, but it's really not. And the pickup bed has nothing to do with drag either - open tailgate, or closed, doesn't matter, tonneau cover doesn't matter either.

It's the same with my V6 SUV - hit 2k rpm and the VVT starts to change and fuel consumption rises and it sucks the fuel. The difference is 29 mpg at 65 mph which drops down to 24 mpg at 75 mph. That's a whopping 5 mpg difference for 10 mph.
ferraiolo1 said:
And it kicks over at 3k. You can hear it when you install the exhaust.
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I can hear the exhaust note change at 2k and my mpg confirms that's where consumption starts to increase.
 
6of36 said:
I don't know here you live, but those speeds have nothing to do with sanity. The posted speeds are 70 and 75, depending on which road I drive.
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Well, not that far from DC since I was talking about driving the DC beltway...🤣

If you have not driven it during morning rush hour, you don't know what you are missing. 4 lanes in each direction packed with local commuters, lost out of state tourists, local businesses and 1-95 east coast traffic all sharing a 64 mile circle track race. Everyone coming off a ramp entering it feels the need to get to the far left lane and once there does not get back across all four lanes until just prior to their exit.

If you see an accident, it is considered a fender bender unless a vehicle is on its roof or a white tarp is covering it. Kind of Mad Max driving experience daily.
 
23RAM said:
Actually it's not, unless you're towing something that has high drag.
Did you know the RAM has a drag coefficient of 0.357 which is about the same as a 1990's VW Jetta?
A lot of people think the RAM is a brick in the wind, but it's really not. And the pickup bed has nothing to do with drag either - open tailgate, or closed, doesn't matter, tonneau cover doesn't matter either.

It's the same with my V6 SUV - hit 2k rpm and the VVT starts to change and fuel consumption rises and it sucks the fuel. The difference is 29 mpg at 65 mph which drops down to 24 mpg at 75 mph. That's a whopping 5 mpg difference for 10 mph.

I can hear the exhaust note change at 2k and my mpg confirms that's where consumption starts to increase.
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I have a loud exhaust. I can 100% confirm
It’s 3k. Even my passengers have asked why it changes.

It’s a bit of both. But Ether way, Higher speed=more wind resistance. And 3.92 truck mpg would be massively less than 3.21 trucks at the same speed. And it’s really not

I can be in tow/haul mode where it never really goes into 8th and I still get similar mpg going the same speeds.

Same as my other vehicles.


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Yes the wind has alot to do with it. Especially a head wind. an uneven rough road will cause mpg to drop.
 
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Mountain Whiskey said:
Well, not that far from DC since I was talking about driving the DC beltway...🤣

If you have not driven it during morning rush hour, you don't know what you are missing. 4 lanes in each direction packed with local commuters, lost out of state tourists, local businesses and 1-95 east coast traffic all sharing a 64 mile circle track race. Everyone coming off a ramp entering it feels the need to get to the far left lane and once there does not get back across all four lanes until just prior to their exit.

If you see an accident, it is considered a fender bender unless a vehicle is on its roof or a white tarp is covering it. Kind of Mad Max driving experience daily.
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Try Houston. 7 lanes. None of them move. Exits on both sides of the freeway. Their road engineers should be shot. Sure glad I don't live there.
 
2 tanks of mixed driving. Mainly in town driving up to 60MPH. Premium fuel. All engineered fuel saving methods turned on.
 

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397STROKER said:
Sounds like something else to brake and you have no clue what is going on or wrong. How I long for the simpler times.
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….on the one hand yes, on the other hand, no moving parts, nothing to wear out With components that have a service life far longer that the rest of the truck.

we’ll see.
 
no argument from me. problem is, most modern “mechanical” gauges are just as digital, but with more moving parts.

I haven’t looked but I bet the Ram “mechanical” gauges which are all digital step-motors controlled by computer to display values the ECU captures vs a flat LCD panel the cost isn’t going to be that different….amd the lcd panel has less moving parts.

ultimately, you can plug an OBDII reader into the truck and display those same values on a cell phone, different display or whatever else you want. Few vehicles if any still use real analog gauges that actually directly connect to the sensors they display information for.

I wish that were not the case.
 
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