Gas Millage!
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RE: Gas Millage!
ORIGINAL: dmdenike
HAH! You have GOT to be kidding. You my friend, are a fool. Oh, BTW, those trip computers in the trucks arent all the way accurate. Are you running bigger tires? Your Odometer wont be correct if you are, and thus making you think your going more or less miles on more or less a tank. Sorry, but if you think mythbusters is correct you are very very nieve.
ORIGINAL: 98DodgeRam1500
Tested and found that I lose .5mpg with the tonneau on.
Thats all the proof I need.
Tested and found that I lose .5mpg with the tonneau on.
Thats all the proof I need.
If you can't spell Naive, then you are very very dumb.
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/naive
LMAO
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Hey I know that my mileage sucks and that is the price I pay. I love my truck and I love the feel of the throttle response, so h@&& yeah I step on the throttle. Yes the Chevys and Fords get better MPG but I want my Dodge. I have nevergotten so many compliments over how my truck looks as I have with this one.It would be great to get better MPG but then I should have bought a YUGO or something. I will always drive my trucks and will have to pay for it. So I just take the fiances car when we go anywhere long distance, but still would not hesitate to take the truck either. I average 10-13 and I pull trailers regular too. Just keep it tuned and run what the owners manual tells you. I always run 87 octane and no pinging.
Everyone will experience different MPG as the different ways that we all drive. So just jump in turn the key and smile.
P.S. Mythbusters rule, but they are not always correct with their myth busting, still cool to watch when they blow something up though.
Everyone will experience different MPG as the different ways that we all drive. So just jump in turn the key and smile.
P.S. Mythbusters rule, but they are not always correct with their myth busting, still cool to watch when they blow something up though.
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RE: Gas Millage!
ORIGINAL: Silver_Dodge
A deviation of only .5 mpg is not going to be noticable in a street driven vehicle. Sorry, but there are too many variables that could attribute to something as miniscule as +/- .5 mpg. I can lose .5 mpg by doing just a little more city driving then usual. Or for the ambient air temps to be 20 degrees colder. Or to get on the throttle hard a few more times then usual. I just don't think it is possible to say a single mod resulted in .5 mpg loss without testing it under very controlled conditions to eliminate all other variable. That is the only way you would ever be able to get to that level of accuracy.
ORIGINAL: 98DodgeRam1500
Tested and found that I lose .5mpg with the tonneau on.
Thats all the proof I need.
Tested and found that I lose .5mpg with the tonneau on.
Thats all the proof I need.
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RE: Gas Millage!
ORIGINAL: 98DodgeRam1500
So, how many hours do you spend trying to catch the fridge light on with the door closed? 
they proved it, and I also have proved it with my own gas guzzler.Do you have to be a scientist (or a sceintist as you call them)to figure out MPG loss?I lose .5mpg with the tonneau, I check my MPG all the time (basically because I have nothing else to do but see how much I like to give $$to OPEC).Iremoved my TGand drovea month with it off and got 2mpg worse on my 1995 F-150 (80% highway), so I put it back on and I was back up to my normal mpg. you will never see a "Joe Dirt" Air Net on my truck, not even if I gained 5mpg with it. Now, if I gained 10mpg, then call me Mr. Dirt.
Have you seen most of the Joe Dirt stuff in this forum?
I can hear the bangos playing in the background of half the you tube videos! LOL
To each their own... some are Air Netters and others watch mythbusters.
All kidding aside, these trucks suck up the gas. and people will do just about anything to get 2mpg more... I look at what it will take me to get that 2mpg more and is it worth it in a time frame thatI think I will keep the truck. I figure this truck might last another 3yrs tops, or that I might get another job and have to commute again. so, is it worth spending $290 for a Cold Air Intake, $100 or what ever it costs flowmasters, andall the other things that might help just to get ridof it or have the tranny die and spend another$2000+ to get it back on the road.
Anyhow... I need to get back to work.
And Mythbusters are real sceintist and now exactlly what they are doing. [sm=icon_beat.gif] Not that I disagree with you. I don't think that taking the tailgate off will help MPG. I just hate when people say "well mythbusters proved it."
they proved it, and I also have proved it with my own gas guzzler.Do you have to be a scientist (or a sceintist as you call them)to figure out MPG loss?I lose .5mpg with the tonneau, I check my MPG all the time (basically because I have nothing else to do but see how much I like to give $$to OPEC).Iremoved my TGand drovea month with it off and got 2mpg worse on my 1995 F-150 (80% highway), so I put it back on and I was back up to my normal mpg. you will never see a "Joe Dirt" Air Net on my truck, not even if I gained 5mpg with it. Now, if I gained 10mpg, then call me Mr. Dirt.
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Not to mention the nets look like joe dirt crap
Not to mention the nets look like joe dirt crap
I can hear the bangos playing in the background of half the you tube videos! LOL
To each their own... some are Air Netters and others watch mythbusters.
All kidding aside, these trucks suck up the gas. and people will do just about anything to get 2mpg more... I look at what it will take me to get that 2mpg more and is it worth it in a time frame thatI think I will keep the truck. I figure this truck might last another 3yrs tops, or that I might get another job and have to commute again. so, is it worth spending $290 for a Cold Air Intake, $100 or what ever it costs flowmasters, andall the other things that might help just to get ridof it or have the tranny die and spend another$2000+ to get it back on the road.
Anyhow... I need to get back to work.
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RE: Gas Millage!
ORIGINAL: Cereal Killer
Well I tested and found the **** in my bed gets wet without the tonneau on
So that's all the proof I need
Well I tested and found the **** in my bed gets wet without the tonneau on
So that's all the proof I need
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I drive my truck because I like it....period. If someone is that depressed because their truck gets bad mileage and needs the TLC of a trophy wife/gf, then get rid of it.
As far as the endless debate on tonneau covers, tailgates up or down, and cargo nets there are many studies available online which seem to have reasonable results. There's one that says cargo nets cause the worst drag of any solution, including keeping the tailgate up. Here's just one about tonneau covers (it's a PDF file).
http://www.trucktestdigest.com/PDFfi...uStudy2007.pdf
Edit: this is a site which has results of an drag coeffiecient study, just don't feel like finding the link to the study itself, sorry. http://www.pace-edwards.com/gasmileage.asp
Bottom line: If you don't like your truck you have the wrong vehicle for you.
As far as the endless debate on tonneau covers, tailgates up or down, and cargo nets there are many studies available online which seem to have reasonable results. There's one that says cargo nets cause the worst drag of any solution, including keeping the tailgate up. Here's just one about tonneau covers (it's a PDF file).
http://www.trucktestdigest.com/PDFfi...uStudy2007.pdf
Edit: this is a site which has results of an drag coeffiecient study, just don't feel like finding the link to the study itself, sorry. http://www.pace-edwards.com/gasmileage.asp
Bottom line: If you don't like your truck you have the wrong vehicle for you.
RE: Gas Millage!
There isn't a nice vehicle on this planet that gets good gas mileage.
Trucks don't get good mileage
Vipers don't get good mileage
Corvettes don't get good mileage
Camaros don't get good mileage
Ferrarris don't get good mileage
Cadillacs don't get good mileage
NICE SUVs don't get good mileage (i'm talking about durangos and excursions here, not the ****ty honda whatevers)
You know what gets good mileage?
Cavaliers
Volkswagons
Hondas
Toyotas
Neons
mini coopers
Trucks don't get good mileage
Vipers don't get good mileage
Corvettes don't get good mileage
Camaros don't get good mileage
Ferrarris don't get good mileage
Cadillacs don't get good mileage
NICE SUVs don't get good mileage (i'm talking about durangos and excursions here, not the ****ty honda whatevers)
You know what gets good mileage?
Cavaliers
Volkswagons
Hondas
Toyotas
Neons
mini coopers
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RE: Gas Millage!
ORIGINAL: Bluebone
I drive my truck because I like it....period. If someone is that depressed because their truck gets bad mileage and needs the TLC of a trophy wife/gf, then get rid of it.
As far as the endless debate on tonneau covers, tailgates up or down, and cargo nets there are many studies available online which seem to have reasonable results. There's one that says cargo nets cause the worst drag of any solution, including keeping the tailgate up. Here's just one about tonneau covers (it's a PDF file).
http://www.trucktestdigest.com/PDFfi...uStudy2007.pdf
Edit: this is a site which has results of an drag coeffiecient study, just don't feel like finding the link to the study itself, sorry. http://www.pace-edwards.com/gasmileage.asp
Bottom line: If you don't like your truck you have the wrong vehicle for you.
I drive my truck because I like it....period. If someone is that depressed because their truck gets bad mileage and needs the TLC of a trophy wife/gf, then get rid of it.
As far as the endless debate on tonneau covers, tailgates up or down, and cargo nets there are many studies available online which seem to have reasonable results. There's one that says cargo nets cause the worst drag of any solution, including keeping the tailgate up. Here's just one about tonneau covers (it's a PDF file).
http://www.trucktestdigest.com/PDFfi...uStudy2007.pdf
Edit: this is a site which has results of an drag coeffiecient study, just don't feel like finding the link to the study itself, sorry. http://www.pace-edwards.com/gasmileage.asp
Bottom line: If you don't like your truck you have the wrong vehicle for you.