Gas Mileage.....Impressed!

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tmd11111

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I got 12.25 on a tank going from Dallas to Lubbock. Stock truck. Unloaded, cruise on, 93 octane. I’m headed home to Dallas tomorrow and I’m scratching my head thinking somethingisn’t right. That’s some crappy highway mpg.

Nothings wrong with your truck. It's our speed limits. I can assure these claims of getting high teens and low twenties are not on Texas roads going the speed limits we have. 12.5-14 is the norm running 75-80 mph.
 

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I got 12.25 on a tank going from Dallas to Lubbock. Stock truck. Unloaded, cruise on, 93 octane. I’m headed home to Dallas tomorrow and I’m scratching my head thinking somethingisn’t right. That’s some crappy highway mpg.

There is something wrong if you are getting that poor of mileage. Those conditions should net 16mpg.
 

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I got 12.25 on a tank going from Dallas to Lubbock. Stock truck. Unloaded, cruise on, 93 octane. I’m headed home to Dallas tomorrow and I’m scratching my head thinking somethingisn’t right. That’s some crappy highway mpg.

Is your truck new? I saw a 2mpg improvement over the first few thousand miles as the engine and drivetrain broke in.
 

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There is something wrong if you are getting that poor of mileage. Those conditions should net 16mpg.

Wrong as ****.. Come out here to Texas and set your cruise @ 80 I assure you you're not going to get that.
 

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Where does it say that the owner was going 80? Either way, the mpg is not anywhere close to what the truck should get. So, either the truck has an issue or the owner did not correctly calculate the mpg. Owner said truck was all stock, so assuming factory tire size. If it was a larger tire (diameter), and the computer was not updated, I could see those numbers (which are wrong).
 

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Where does it say that the owner was going 80? Either way, the mpg is not anywhere close to what the truck should get. So, either the truck has an issue or the owner did not correctly calculate the mpg. Owner said truck was all stock, so assuming factory tire size. If it was a larger tire (diameter), and the computer was not updated, I could see those numbers (which are wrong).

OP said he went from Dallas to Lubbock. If he wasn’t running 75+ he would have gotten run off the road. Hell our single lane country roads are 75. At those speeds I get 13-14. If driving into a strong head wind then even less so his mileage isn’t far off at all.
 
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