Weight Distribution, Trailer Weight and MPG
I'm trying to figure something out. This past weekend, we went camping. A 400 mile round trip. I averaged 7.8 mpg going to the campground and 6.7 mpg coming home. The difference in mpg is easily expla...
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I think this is by far to small of a sample to say definitively. Aerodynamics is the #1 factor for MPG with weight behind that. I read somewhere that once rolling it takes about 100 hp to maintain 60 MPH with approx a 7,000 lb TT.
IMHO...you may have been more careful about your driving and slowing down is typicically what causes the most positive impact on MPG. Of course conditions matter as well...if you have to run the motor hard it will drink more gas. Run it easy and there is better MPG.
Also, diesel does provide better MPG condition for condition. I'm a huge gas fan so I am not flaming diesel, this is a fact...diesel, driving condition for driving condition, will out perform gas on MPG nearly every time. It is typically about 30% better MPG.
Your truck is a 6.0 gasser based on your MPG. Please correct me if I am wrong.
Weight does have an impact but the only way you would know for sure is to take the lightly loaded camper on the same 400 mile run, same time of day, same road conditions, similar temp outside, drive the same way, and then compare MPG.
There are two campgrounds that my family loves. One of them is in the flatlands close to my house...one I have to climb a mountain to get to. I can't compare the MPG between the two because the driving conditions are totally different.
Thanks!
Jeremiah
IMHO...you may have been more careful about your driving and slowing down is typicically what causes the most positive impact on MPG. Of course conditions matter as well...if you have to run the motor hard it will drink more gas. Run it easy and there is better MPG.
Also, diesel does provide better MPG condition for condition. I'm a huge gas fan so I am not flaming diesel, this is a fact...diesel, driving condition for driving condition, will out perform gas on MPG nearly every time. It is typically about 30% better MPG.
Your truck is a 6.0 gasser based on your MPG. Please correct me if I am wrong.
Weight does have an impact but the only way you would know for sure is to take the lightly loaded camper on the same 400 mile run, same time of day, same road conditions, similar temp outside, drive the same way, and then compare MPG.
There are two campgrounds that my family loves. One of them is in the flatlands close to my house...one I have to climb a mountain to get to. I can't compare the MPG between the two because the driving conditions are totally different.
Thanks!
Jeremiah
