Ram 3500 MPG test

Cummins12V98 wrote:
I have no idea is this a lot, little or average? I really don't feel I idle a lot.

I spend a lot more time idle but it looks like you drive even slower than I do.

FishOnOne wrote:

blofgren wrote:

FishOnOne wrote:

Cummins12V98 wrote:
"there doesn't seem to be a stinker in the group."

I concur.

I agree... But there's also One that stands out from the group!

Let's see after some time and a few miles... ;)

At 7.5 years here's where I'm at! What about yours?




My truck gets used as a daily driver and essentially gets driven every day.

I'm talking about the "new" 2020 Powerstroke. Ford has a history of having a few "glitches" with new diesel releases..... ;)

I lived it first hand with my 2003.

Wish I had a couple of the pics of the trucks I had up on the slope.
Mine had the least hours of any because it basically only got used by me, single shift and more office time than most.
When I turned it in, it had just over 2000 miles on it and right at 1000 hours. Of those 1000, only a little over 100 hours WASN'T idle time.
The 5500 crew trucks had between 3000-4000 hours and also averaged about 1 mile per hour overall with 90%+ being idle hours.

And FWIW, never replaced 1 DPF or SCR. Did have 1 of the 5500s so plugged up though that I ran out of manual regen attempts in the software and had to re-program it as if it had received a new dpf and then several more regens before it cleared up! That and a bunch of cracked def injectors. Think they'd not clear out and freeze, because it was a semi common occurrence. You'd pull up and there'd be a truck idling, literally with a p!ss-cicle hanging off the tailpipe and a frozen puddle of def on the ground.

FishOnOne wrote:


I got busted checking out the new Rams. :E

I knew it!!
Your Blulaid has been kind of diluted lately and you haven't been pickin fights with the Dodge Boys!! lol

I've actually been looking at the new Fords too......




















No I haven't.



Cheers buddy!

I have no idea is this a lot, little or average? I really don't feel I idle a lot.

4x4ord wrote:

ShinerBock wrote:

FishOnOne wrote:



At 7.5 years here's where I'm at! What about yours?

My truck gets used as a daily driver and essentially gets driven every day.

That is a lot of idle hours! Using the standard of every idle hour equating to thirty driven miles, you technically have 217k miles on your truck.

I've got a 290 idle hours out of a total of 991 hours and 29,500 miles.

I'm at 71 idle hours out of 1909 total hours. I guess I'm not idling very much.

ShinerBock wrote:

FishOnOne wrote:



At 7.5 years here's where I'm at! What about yours?

My truck gets used as a daily driver and essentially gets driven every day.

That is a lot of idle hours! Using the standard of every idle hour equating to thirty driven miles, you technically have 217k miles on your truck.

I've got a 290 idle hours out of a total of 991 hours and 29,500 miles.

Cummins12V98 wrote:

ShinerBock wrote:

FishOnOne wrote:



At 7.5 years here's where I'm at! What about yours?

My truck gets used as a daily driver and essentially gets driven every day.

That is a lot of idle hours! Using the standard of every idle hour equating to thirty driven miles, you technically have 217k miles on your truck.

He doesn't like to get hot so it idles while he checks out the new RAM's. :B

I got busted checking out the new Rams. :E

ShinerBock wrote:

FishOnOne wrote:



At 7.5 years here's where I'm at! What about yours?

My truck gets used as a daily driver and essentially gets driven every day.

That is a lot of idle hours! Using the standard of every idle hour equating to thirty driven miles, you technically have 217k miles on your truck.

He doesn't like to get hot so it idles while he checks out the new RAM's. :B

Or if you break it down another way and say 5 days a week the truck is used for “work” and it idles about 30 min a day and is driven about 90 miles a day. Sounds very reasonable for a truck used for most types of “work.”
Not everyone actually cares about every mile or hour they put on a vehicle.