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Originally Posted by denpacc
Cackalak, no matter how much we try to convince the skeptics they won't believe us. No big deal. But I must reply:
Whitey, don't use my quotes out of context. My posted best mileage pulling my tent trailer was a shade under 22.5mpg. You fail to quote the part about it was 100% highway driving at 55-60mph (with stops only for gas), and that makes a HUGE difference in fuel economy. For example, when I opened it up to 80+miles per hour pulling my tent trailer, often slowing down for slower vehicles and generally poor traffic flow, my mpg dropped to 13ishmpg. That's what happens when I talk about traffic flow and driving fast.
Man4God, you stated you got 18.2 on the highway driving 65-70mph. Don't you think driving 55-60 for the ENTIRE trip on a highway with excellent traffic flow could possibly make a difference in your fuel mileage? I've experimented with this for years and there is quite a difference between driving 55 vs. 65+ on a 4runner for the entire trip. Remember the faster you drive the more drag there is, and considering we are talking about a 4runner speed will severely impact fuel consumption.
You guys are entitled to not believe our numbers, but until you've duplicated our driving habits/style, weather environments, traffic (flow), trailer set-up, altitude, vehicle, etc. you won't know for sure.
I generally get very different mileage consumption depending on the highways I choose, my driving style on a particular day, summer vs. winter gas, direction I head from the city I live in, wind speed. I've gotten significantly WORSE mileage driving the highways near my house WITHOUT pulling my trailer than I do pulling my trailer in a different part of the country.
All I am asking is that you are open to the possibility of people like me or Cackalak getting 20+mpg pulling a trailer. Rather than chalk it up to BS or something like that why not be open to the possibility that our numbers are true? It can be done in the right conditions consistently. There is no reason for us to make up the numbers we post.
Not only that, I got very similar numbers pulling our tent trailer with my wife's 1993 4.0 heep cherokee sport a few years earlier on the same stretch of highways. How's that for comparing apples to oranges? LOL
Cheers
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I get what you are saying. I really do: These trucks under the most ideal of conditions can get better than 20 MPG. Ok, fair enough. If you live in the sticks where you drive 100 miles a day to work with no one, even a moose on the road, yeah, 20 MPG is feasible. But real world for almost all these truks is more like 15-18 mixed, USA driving. As the gentleman from AZ stated, less than 65 there is tantamount to death and it's practically the same here in Southern California. Short of asking everyone on the planet to slow down so I can get 20 MPG on my way to work, it is just not a reality.
But 3 years with 3 different 3.4 Auto equipped trucks/4Runners and averaging almost 21 MPG? Get out. You drive in a dream world.