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Old 03-17-2020, 09:44 PM   #36 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Frank Lee View Post
It's getting warmer. Warmer > better mpgs. That could be a factor in this trend.

Cost of fill means nothing in this metric unless price/gallon was always the same. Even then, gallons and miles are the metrics, for us anyway.

Actually that stuff hanging slightly out the back probably had minimal effect on aero.

Might want to slow down. I've gotten nearly those numbers with a V8 F150.
About half of those miles were traveled in Vermont up to the Canadian border, where temps ranged from the teens to the mid-30s Fahrenheit, so the temps would have been equal or cooler than the previous few fill-ups spent in the NY-NJ-CT area.

130 or so miles of the first tank was the aforementioned heavy-footed run at 65-70mph, the rest was predominantly 2-lane routes at 45-55, where the truck and its owner are happiest.

The fill log is a screenshot from my phone, where I track mpg and money spent for different reasons. I haven’t gotten around to setting up a log on ecomodder yet.
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