mikestock wrote:
tropical36 wrote:
Seems that everyone always gets better mileage than me, no matter what I'm driving.
I'm an easy driver too, with easy starts off the line and for cruising at 57mph and just enough to prevent downshifting into 5th going over grades.
I'm at 16tons and over a 13yr period, among three owners, my average is 6.2 on the OEM digital dash readout. I tow as well and was only able to increase this average by 0.1 over four years.
Not even sure, if this is counting the genset, since I don't know where sensors for this is.
I've also noticed that some of these big rigs, get as much as our toad, all by itself. Ummmmmmm!
Glad to hear from an honest owner. My Cat350 in a 40 footer and towing a CR-V gets 6.6 to 6.7. I thought mine was worse than anybody's.
But, I have to agree with the guy who said that mileage was way down the list in importance. Once you pay for insurance, taxes, storage (in my case) and other maintenance expenses involved, you'll see. Kind of like buying an airplane and worrying about MPG.
I certainly agree and these numbers are only good for the sake of discussion and for wondering if you have a leak somewhere.
Actually and I've said this many times, I feel that DPM (depreciation per mile) is where the real cost of ownership lies and the only way to offset that some, is for buying older.
We bought ours at 9yrs old and it's still gonna be a bunch of money, once it's all said and done.
