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Got some numbers for my weekend trip. Went out to Ocean City State Park with a group of friends (tenters w/ kids, not a boondocking trip). Anyways it was a flat run.
My rig: Dodge 1500 4x4 w/ 5.7 Hemi. Running a hawk w/ ~8-10gal of water in it, food/gear, and 400lb worth of people. Note my tires are ~3% over sized (running 34" E-load tires verse the 33" stock size).
I tanked up in Bellevue, WA on friday and dealt with heavy traffic on I-5 heading down to Olympia before shooting over to the coast. Mostly tried to go 65mph (corrected speed 67mph) when I could, there was a lot of stop/go on the first half. After that 140mi leg my trip computer was reading 11.8mpg (~12.1mpg corrected). On the way back I tanked up a bit north of Tacoma and with 236mi on the odometer and the trip computer reading 12.2mpg (corrected to ~12.6mpg). Hand calc says 236*1.03/19.13gal = 12.7mpg, pretty close. Taking off the 140mi of 11.8mpg, uncorrected, it looks like I was pulling about 12.8mpg, uncorrected on the return portion of that tank.
After filling up I reset my trip computer and the ~60mi run home in the same conditions gave me 12.8mpg of the trip computer with confirms the above. 12.8mpg corrected is ~13.15mpg in my rig going ~67mph on generally flat terrain without traffic to deal with.
Dealing with traffic dropped 1mpg off on me.
My rig: Dodge 1500 4x4 w/ 5.7 Hemi. Running a hawk w/ ~8-10gal of water in it, food/gear, and 400lb worth of people. Note my tires are ~3% over sized (running 34" E-load tires verse the 33" stock size).
I tanked up in Bellevue, WA on friday and dealt with heavy traffic on I-5 heading down to Olympia before shooting over to the coast. Mostly tried to go 65mph (corrected speed 67mph) when I could, there was a lot of stop/go on the first half. After that 140mi leg my trip computer was reading 11.8mpg (~12.1mpg corrected). On the way back I tanked up a bit north of Tacoma and with 236mi on the odometer and the trip computer reading 12.2mpg (corrected to ~12.6mpg). Hand calc says 236*1.03/19.13gal = 12.7mpg, pretty close. Taking off the 140mi of 11.8mpg, uncorrected, it looks like I was pulling about 12.8mpg, uncorrected on the return portion of that tank.
After filling up I reset my trip computer and the ~60mi run home in the same conditions gave me 12.8mpg of the trip computer with confirms the above. 12.8mpg corrected is ~13.15mpg in my rig going ~67mph on generally flat terrain without traffic to deal with.
Dealing with traffic dropped 1mpg off on me.