3/4 ton mpg empty?

cockeyedMFer · Oct 14, 2014

Diamondpilot said:
Yes, and if you go back and read my original statement I said my 2012 Eco Boost will out work and out tow my 99 Power Stroke.

There is a lot of technology giving these new truck the power and performance we could have only dreamed of 15 years ago.

Chris

Sorry to quote an old post, but I wanted to ask if your EcoBoost is seeing any increased wear on suspension, steering parts, etc? Frankly with today's tow ratings a half ton would meet my towing needs, but I can't imagine an F150 would have the longevity of a SuperDuty when worked that hard.

Diamondpilot · Oct 14, 2014

cockeyedMFer said:
Sorry to quote an old post, but I wanted to ask if your EcoBoost is seeing any increased wear on suspension, steering parts, etc? Frankly with today's tow ratings a half ton would meet my towing needs, but I can't imagine an F150 would have the longevity of a SuperDuty when worked that hard.

46,000 miles now and nothing. I just put new tires on it. Could have squeezed another 4,000 or so out of them but had a flat and they were on sale so just bit the bullet. With winter coming on didn't want to chance it.

Chris

sparc · Oct 18, 2014

yelbike said:
What speed do you drive generally? Would you consider yourself a fuel miser type of driver or just average with no major regard for fuel consumption.

Reason I ask is I'm impressed with your mileage.

My daily driving is all back roads. Its 18.2 miles to work one way. There are 2 stops signs, a red light (always red in my direction), another stop sign, then one last traffic light. After those first two stops signs which are getting out of my development unto the state highway with a 50 mph speed limit, I have a 7.5 miles shot on pretty flat road. Nothing here in my part of South Jersey measures more than 3 deg. by the angle gauge in my truck, so its pretty flat. Its 5am when Im heading to work so very little traffic (I see maybe 8 cars during the whole trip) but you have to watch out for the deer of which I see about a half dozen evey morning, so there is probably 3x that waiting to jump out in front of me from the woods which line the roads. So I don't exceed the speed limit by more than a couple MPH, there's just too little reaction time with the tree line being less than 8 feet from the should line in most cases and deer hiding everywhere. Anyway after I get through that last traffic light I have another 6 miles to the parking lot which is dead flat and 50 mph limit. I do not have a heavy foot, I lost that driving a Hummer H1 for 86k miles over 14 years. That thing was so slow you got used to always being last off the line. So while not a fuel miser or hypermiler I guess I am easier than most on the pedal.

Even in my F-150 I got what I thought was good milage. I had a 05 FX4 with the 5.4l Triton motor and I got between 15.5 and 17 for the whole 114000 miles I drove it. No trip computer in that truck i kept a log book and recorded every drop of fuel I put in it and calculated the milage.

Our fuel prices are always lower than most of the country. Right now regular is 2.879 and road diesel is 3.399 and in some places 3.109. At 19/20 mpg on the F-350 and 15.2 on my current 2012 F-150 with the 6.2l gas motor its a toss up on the pennies per mile by the time you figure in the DEF additive.

sparc · Oct 18, 2014

DelSc said:
I have a 2012 F350 diesel. I average ~16.5 mpg in everyday driving unloaded, and about 13 mpg pulling a large horse trailer. On long trips, I can coax >20 mpg out of it (unloaded) if I keep the speed down. Winter driving makes me lose about 1 mpg.

The difference between your milage and mine is probably the axle ratios. I got mine geared for max milage because I knew I would be running mostly empty and doing little towing (<5% of my miles), so 3.55 gears and I don't see any of my towing as really taxing the 6.7's power even with this axle ratio. My heaviest loads would be my 12 ft dual axle dump trailer with 3 ton of stone, so just under 9000, or the flat bed with the tractor on it which is ~2900 for the trailer and ~5600 for the tractor with loader and box blade so 8500. When I have those trailers loaded as above, the truck hardly knows they are there. And it pulls so nicely when you're going down the road you have to remember there's a trailer hanging off the back. Starting out from a dead stop it takes a bit more to get moving of course, but it does not feel like the truck is working that hard. My milage does drop to 14-15 when towing. I just did a 200 mile run last weekend with the flat bed to pick up a tower for a Ham friend of mine. it was not heavy (240#) just that folded up it was 22 feet long and he had no way to carry it. So basically I drug an empty trailer 188 miles and I used 9.8 gallons(thats filling up before I left, and filling up when we got back. the 9.8 gallons is off the fuel slip, not the trip computer). This was 60% on toll roads where we were doing 65 mph, and the rest was back roads at 50 or less.

Copperhead · Apr 12, 2015

Getting in late on this one and reviving the thread. My 2015 2500HD 6.0L gasser 6 speed with 4.10 diffs Z71 and snow plow prep package. It has averaged around 13 for all miles, in town, out in the country, gravel roads, two lane highways, off road, everything. On road trips, it manages 15-16 mpg for the highway. And that has been only on E15 winter fuel thus far. Things should improve a little with summer fuel. No real heavy towing with it, so don't have that perspective. I got it mostly for hauling and not towing. Kinda one of those things where i needed more than a 1500 does, but didn't need a diesel 3500 dually to pull around a 5th wheel or gooseneck trailer with some serious weight.

What shocked me, was that a 2015 2500HD setup like mine in just about every detail, knocked the socks off of a Ram 2500 with the 6.4 and 8 speed on the TFL Ike Guanlet truck pull test. It even came in only a little over 2 min behind a GMC 2500HD pickup with a Dmax in it. The older Vortex 6.0L in these 2015 pickups are pretty rock solid with a great track record for durability and longevity and can hold their own with the other newer stuff.

Video of the Ike Gauntlet pull test...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ8fn3PvNhQ&list=PLjXptazwnueqnqm_Y8NwotkAf1bXVTRvN&index=17

The 2015 2500 gasser won the Golden Hitch Award from these guys of all the 2015 gas powered 3/4 ton trucks.