Ecomods for truck
I spent many hours modding my old ford ranger, mostly to no avail.
You can do all sorts of mods to the trucks to squeeze one or two mpg's out of the truck more than you could get by just easy driving style.
If you make all the said mods to a truck, such as lowering truck height, removing stock bed, tapering the bed from all directions, adding all sorts of bells and whistles, you might end up with a very economical vehicle (but not a truck).
I found that in the end after all the ecomods I did to my truck I increased mpg by aprox 10-15%. Not bad, but would have been much better if I had bought a smaller car, and left the truck for being a truck.
It's real simple. Lighter weight equals more mpg's. Trucks aren't light weight. They don't generally get good gas mileage. You can make them lighter, and more aerodynamic, but then you don't have a useful truck.
Bite the bullet my friend, either drive a small truck and get 25 mpg max on average, but certainly not when the truck is loaded with stuff (i.e. when it is being used as a truck), OR buy a smaller car, and get better mpg's. OR use a big truck when you need it and something smaller when you don't need the truck OR if you are really desperate for great mpg's ride a bicycle, walk, take the bus, train, or carpool.
Don't waste your time and money modding a truck into something which gets good mpg's but ain't a truck!
Good Luck with your endeavours!
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