I bought a 2006 dodge 1500 4.7L last year. My wife had been using it more then I was, but I recently bought her a car. Since the truck is now in my control I'm trying to find the best ways to increase my fuel mileage.

I don't want to go nuts throwing all kinds of money into it, well I want to but I can't afford to.

I'm looking into getting a cold air kit, programmer, exhaust stuff like that. From what I've read these are easy ways to see mpg gain. Any suggestions that won't break the bank are appreciated.

 

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I've done intake, exhaust and programmer, and I don't see a difference that would warrant the cost of the upgrades. I might get 1-1.5mpg more IF I stayed out of the throttle, which I don't. It would take a long time for the cost of the mods to pay for themselves in gas. You want bang for your buck, do the E-fan mod. City MPG should go up noticeably.

 

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Cool, thanks.

 

Yea I agree you probally will never see ur money back from a sc tuner and intake and exhaust because that's like a minimum of $1200 ur spending to get like maybe 2 mpgs I did all of that and that's pretty much all I got