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Old 09-21-2016, 01:30 PM   #19 (permalink)
Hersbird
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I talked to a ecodiesel owner pulling a traditional 22' Lance TT and he said 15 so far coming up from California. This was in Idaho. TFLtruck has the 33mpg video on YouTube, w/o a trailer, they have yet to do a towing MPG test on the Ecodiesel, their current towing MPG champ is the 4 cylinder Duramax Canyon, which did the run high 12's (at 70 mph with a v nose box trailer) slightly better then the Nissan 5.0 cummins. That's more what I would like to see for proof. I believe the people posting on this page, but go over to the diesel bomber pages and you would think everybody is getting 25+ empty and 17 towing a 14,000 pound fiver with 35" mud tires no less.

I think my CPM will be lower then average. I will delete the emissions and I do all my own work. It will take me 10 years to even put 50,000 miles on whatever I buy so even the added registration and insurance cost on the 2500 might be a bigger factor. Besides gas, my annual maintenance costs on my fleet of 3 vehicles is usually under $500. Tires are the biggest cost because I buy 2 sets for every one.

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