Fuel Mileage
I have been looking into the fuel mileage of my 2006 Chevy Duramax being so low. Less the 12 mpg in town and less them 15 on the road. I an a conservative driver. The 14.9 mpg was using the cruise con...
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I remember years back working at Ford Dealership in the service dept.
They actually had an write up on what things cost you MPG , started out #1 was driver and went from there.
But remember on the testing they did was using a stock 2 wheel drive reg cab long bed truck ,several runs to get a base MPG at a certain speed 58 MPH.
Then they added a bug shield , dropped .5 MPG , then towing mirrors dropped another 1. MPG , then running boards dropped another 1.5MPG , a sun-visor above the windshield another 1.2 MPG side window visors .3 MPG and so on.
By the time they had all the add-ons it was costing close to 6 MPG !
They actually had an write up on what things cost you MPG , started out #1 was driver and went from there.
But remember on the testing they did was using a stock 2 wheel drive reg cab long bed truck ,several runs to get a base MPG at a certain speed 58 MPH.
Then they added a bug shield , dropped .5 MPG , then towing mirrors dropped another 1. MPG , then running boards dropped another 1.5MPG , a sun-visor above the windshield another 1.2 MPG side window visors .3 MPG and so on.
By the time they had all the add-ons it was costing close to 6 MPG !
