Ford Superduty V10 towing trip
Hello everyone. As the subject says, I was on a 1800 mile trip this summer and I hand calculated the mileage I was doing towing my 10K pound fiver @ 65 mph avg. I thought some of you might be intere...
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hookie wrote:jerem0621 wrote:
Your numbers towing are accurate based on my experience as well. My truck was a dually and empty got around 9 -10 ish basically no matter what I did. If I could get 12-14 like you empty I would have been ecstatic.
Since you mentioned the 8.1 your buddy had.. may I ask what the MPG for your friend was? I have been considering an 8.1 in a Suburban recently. I suspect that the MPG's between the V10 and the 8.1 are relatively comparable. But I am not sure.
Thanks!
Jeremiah
I just sold our Yukon XL with the 8.1 and 4.10 rear end. I was right at 10mpg in suburban traffic and around 12ish hwy solo. Towing a fairly high profile TT weighing 7500 ibs I'd get 7-8mpg going 65mph, if I went really easy and slowed down I'd get 8-8.5mpg. But she didn't labor at all, nice easy towing. Spent a lot in gas, but it was waaaaay cheaper than a diesel and towed our rig great.
I'm not trying to turn this into a gas diesel thing so please don't take it that way. but how can you say that your 8.1 was waaaaay cheaper than a diesel to operate? My diesel gets right at 7-8 more miles per gallon in suburban traffic and 10 ish more mpg on the highway solo. Pulling a 7500 TT at 65 would be around 4 more mpg. The 8.1 was an option so I know it cost more than the standard 6.0. The diesel wouldn't have been waaaaay more expensive. If you traded the 8.1 then you would have gotten more for the diesel in trade.
I'm just trying to figure out how you do your math?
