Fuel consumption too high?
Hello, I have a Ford Ranger 2019 that does 18-21mpg on the highway at around 65mph. I have just purchased a GD 17MKE which is a 21', 6400 GVWR, travel trailer. I expected to go from 18-21mpg not to...
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Urriellu wrote:
Thank you all very, very much for all the replies.
I just finished a second trip and I made a few changes as suggested:
- I went from 65-75 mph avg to 55mph.
- When going uphill I slowed down to 45 mph.
- I started using premium gas instead of regular.
- I speed up after stopping veeeeeeery slowly.
My consumption has gone up from 7.5-8.5 mpg to around 12 mpg. Way better!
Just using premium instead of regular also helped a lot, when not towing I went from ~18 mpg (using regular) to 21-22 mpg (using premium).
Thanks again!
Given:
1). Same travel speed
2). TV weighs same both tests
— TT penalty steady-state is 40% at 60-mph. 21 to 12 is 40%, but it trends more to an aero TT. With a box TT it’ll slide towards 50%.
Your adjustments made it about as good as it will get. Part of the numerical baseline for future diagnosis of problems which aren’t clear at first.
Adjust your WDH so that TV steer weight hitched is the same as the solo TV weight value. That’ll give closer to finger-tip steering.
