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Old 04-06-2015, 09:46 AM   #20 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by aerostealth View Post
I have and I will. In fact I just posted a graph of my composite averages through the winter and they are not great. Cold weather and higher air densities are a mpg killer. Any of you guys tracking through the winter should know that? My upcoming trip in warm weather should tell a significant story. City driving in a mix kills mileage. The combined mpg sticker on the truck is 17 mpg. If I am now producing over 19 mpgs as a composite average that shows what the aero is doing. The high mpg returns on the highway are dragging the averages up. That is valuable information. A trip log of the last 5 months while interesting is not that indicative of the benefits of aero because of the air density problem. I will have some trip results on the 13th or 14th for you all. From now until October is when you should be trying to get good data.
Yep. My winter mileage suffered tremendously. Here's my graph from the garage. As you can see things went way south around November.
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