Shocking mileage drop
Ten years ago we had a lightweight camper (don't recall the brand or model) on my Tundra Supercab with a V-6. That camper dropped my mileage on the road from 24 to 19 MPG. Many years later, we j...
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SidecarFlip wrote:
Anyone that goes down the road with a TC as heavy as a Lance on an F150 at 75 mph is asking for a death wish.
I sure as heck don't want to be anywhere around you.
That is insane.
Try driving more conservatively and your mileage will increase.
Better yet, get a more capable truck and drive sanely. It's a vacation, not the Indy 500....:R
This is interesting.
My tricked out Dodge RAM 2500 and Arctic Fox TC cruises very comfortably at 80MPH all day long down the highway.
I've put a gazillion miles on it doing just that. All over the country from Maine to Florida and out to California, Colorado, etc.
I wonder if different vehicles handle differently?
I just go the pace of the other traffic around me or get way out front of the other people if they are going 65 or something.
Never an issue with it not handling well in a straight line. Corners, yeah. You gotta slow it down, though it's surprised me how resistant to rolling over it actually is.
I've even had someone pull out from a driveway in front of me when going 50mph and had to swerve into the oncoming traffic lane and back very quickly and it didn't roll. I thought for sure it would have.
