Diesel Towing MPG With Ultralight Trailer
Anybody have any idea what a late model 2500 series DIESEL truck pulling a mini trailer 3500lbs max trailer weight would be? My 2017 3.5 Ecoboost gets about 20 mpg highway empty. It gets 7-9 mpg to...
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I went from towing a 16k high profile 5th wheel to Arizona and back twice to a 8K TT twice there and back. Mileage between them was almost the same the first year I towed the smaller TT. Last winter I towed the smaller trailer without T/H on and sped up to 65-66 MPH vs the 60 MPH I towed before and allow the truck to shift into 6th gear. Mileage went up ^^^^^^ 1.5-2 MPG. In T/H it will not shift to 6th until over 65 MPH.
I run things through my mind all the time and one is do I really need a SRW 3500 to tow a 8K TT back and forth to AZ from NW WA. The answer keeps coming out the same. Why give up a truck you really like and that tows the TT effortlessly. I do not even bother installing the sway control anymore as the 8K trailer does not push around the 8500 lb truck at all. I do use the equalizer bars.
The diesel trucks have a big advantage going down mountain passes in their exhaust brake.
I run things through my mind all the time and one is do I really need a SRW 3500 to tow a 8K TT back and forth to AZ from NW WA. The answer keeps coming out the same. Why give up a truck you really like and that tows the TT effortlessly. I do not even bother installing the sway control anymore as the 8K trailer does not push around the 8500 lb truck at all. I do use the equalizer bars.
The diesel trucks have a big advantage going down mountain passes in their exhaust brake.
