Real World V-10 Mileage Report
Just returned from a 3K mile trip from Orlando Fl, to Pittsburgh. Then to NY, Connecticut, then up to Maine for a week. Then Maine back to Florida. Everything went very very well. We were pulling o...
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OK, several points regarding tuners, mileage, ScanGuage and Class-A RVs. In no particular order.
I bought a 5-star tuner at the Hershey RV show on Saturday, installed the program on Sunday and took off on a 500 mile round trip on Monday. Mileage was no better, maybe 0.1mpg better, than before. Shift points however and uphill performance was different in a majorly positive way. Hills I used to hit and have the rig drop to 3rd and scream along at 5200 were pulled in 5th or maybe 4th at 3400. The cabin noise because of this was markedly decreased. It is a keeper.
ScanGuage, Nice idea, but don’t be fooled. Now I may need to reconfigure mine due to the 5-Star, but the MPG it shows is at least 1 to 1-1/2 MPG higher than what simple match says I got on this trip.
Mileage, I have a simple Excel spreadsheet into which I input the date, the odometer reading, the gallons and the cost of the fill-up. I have run this spreadsheet since I purchased my RV.
Set up it reads:
Date-Start-Finish-Gallons-Cost-MPG-Miles this tank-Lifetime Average MPG to date-4 tank MPG-10 tank MPG-MPG trend
Over 20,000 miles of good and bad, chipped and unchipped, towing and not towing my MPG is 6.375MPG, my highest MPG was in the upper 7’s and the worst was low 5s.
Travel in a Class A. I also have a spreadsheet that compares RV to SUV to Air Travel. I input the MPG of the RV and SUV, I add in Campground costs, estimates for food, hotels, airfares, round trip miles and the number of people. This yields the estimated cost of the trip both total and per person. I have compared the results to the actual RV costs and that runs true. The RV last week for three adults and 500 miles ran about $830 on the calculations, and was within $20 of the actual. Now this does not include a couple dinners, about $60 each person total and a few other expenses that would have occurred regardless of travel mode. Comparing this to my SUV and a hotel for the same time we saved an estimated $ 500.00! Even without the hotel cost included as we would have been comped this trip, we still saved at least $50. And we have the benefits of our own place, not some dubious hotel room.
I bought a 5-star tuner at the Hershey RV show on Saturday, installed the program on Sunday and took off on a 500 mile round trip on Monday. Mileage was no better, maybe 0.1mpg better, than before. Shift points however and uphill performance was different in a majorly positive way. Hills I used to hit and have the rig drop to 3rd and scream along at 5200 were pulled in 5th or maybe 4th at 3400. The cabin noise because of this was markedly decreased. It is a keeper.
ScanGuage, Nice idea, but don’t be fooled. Now I may need to reconfigure mine due to the 5-Star, but the MPG it shows is at least 1 to 1-1/2 MPG higher than what simple match says I got on this trip.
Mileage, I have a simple Excel spreadsheet into which I input the date, the odometer reading, the gallons and the cost of the fill-up. I have run this spreadsheet since I purchased my RV.
Set up it reads:
Date-Start-Finish-Gallons-Cost-MPG-Miles this tank-Lifetime Average MPG to date-4 tank MPG-10 tank MPG-MPG trend
Over 20,000 miles of good and bad, chipped and unchipped, towing and not towing my MPG is 6.375MPG, my highest MPG was in the upper 7’s and the worst was low 5s.
Travel in a Class A. I also have a spreadsheet that compares RV to SUV to Air Travel. I input the MPG of the RV and SUV, I add in Campground costs, estimates for food, hotels, airfares, round trip miles and the number of people. This yields the estimated cost of the trip both total and per person. I have compared the results to the actual RV costs and that runs true. The RV last week for three adults and 500 miles ran about $830 on the calculations, and was within $20 of the actual. Now this does not include a couple dinners, about $60 each person total and a few other expenses that would have occurred regardless of travel mode. Comparing this to my SUV and a hotel for the same time we saved an estimated $ 500.00! Even without the hotel cost included as we would have been comped this trip, we still saved at least $50. And we have the benefits of our own place, not some dubious hotel room.
