14mpg on 200ish mile road trip

You’re right. 14mpg for a midsize, stock truck is perfectly acceptable. Thank you for your input.

 

No problem. I'm here to help.

Nah...just messing man. Just joking around (as I said----I know, "TLDR"----Seems low to me)

 

The MPG is my only real disappointment with this truck. I can get 18ish if I drive like an old man but typically get around 15. I’ve got a 3 inch lift and run 285s but I still think it’s pretty pathetic, only saw 19 when it was stock, granted that was only for 800 miles. LOL Haven’t gotten a good road trip in yet, but I’m not optimistic about the mileage I’ll get. Hell this thing that I got rid of to get the Taco only got 2-3 mpg less to the gallon and it was way less aerodynamic, was 16 years old, and had 300k miles on it.

 

I seem to average 19-21mpg. I also tested all driving modes and seemed to get the worse mpg's in normal D. My best is either in ECT mode or S5. I do encounter a lot of up climbing going to work and going home. I have upgraded my wheels to Ray 10's 16's with 265/75/16 WildPeaks.

 

Radar cruise is worse than normal cruise. Radar slows down too short even at the shortest setting then the truck down shifts and hammers to get back to speed.Hold cruise button down longer and it will go into normal cruise mode without radar.

 

Yeah if you know someone in the area who has the kit, they can use it to tune your truck but they need to read your vehicle computer first and send that info to Mat so he can license that info to their USB Dongle. He did it for alot cheaper... But he may have given me a really good price since it was for a retiree.

 

You know, I never thought of it but I think you are correct about the CC killing MPGs. I use cruise going into work set at 70 and get 19-20 mpg with no traffic. Coming home I don't use cruise and sit in substantial traffic but get 22+. The trip is about 26 miles with 20 being highway. I'm going to stop using cruise and see what happens!

 

I get about 18-20 mpg going 75 mph on my commute to work everyday ~30 miles each way. Also pretty hilly, I live in California. And I’m on BFG KO2s A/Ts.

 

My quicksand is OVtuned and averaging over 20 mpg. I had two tanks this weekend of around 22.

 

Just did a a 600 mile round trip with 2 fill ups going about 75-80 and averaged 14.9mpg. The first part of the trip had a lot of 55-65 speed limits that had me averaging 17-18mpg but over 75mph mpg takes a nose dive.

 

Sorry, but I drive with that open any time that I can including highways. More than happy with my MPGs.

 

The shift pattern for cruise control is set up in an attempt to avoid hunting around for gears all the time. When the transmission does downshift with CC active, it will hold that gear longer than when driving around normal -> reduced fuel economy.

 

And get run off the road? You know a lot of interstates are 75mph+

 

Wait, I was advocating driving with it OPEN.
Also, I was talking out my butt.

 

If I was a Toyota tech I would tell you it's normal.

 

I can get that in my stock truck easy. 12 miles isn't a great measure. now if that was 200 miles at 70mph that would be something.

 

Ah. I still don't understand the MPGs that some folks get.

 

Yeah. I feel like mine has improved by a couple mpg on average. I'm getting 17-19 around town (depending on how I drive) kinda what I expected from 6MT

 

It's not

I could get that in my stock truck easy too. Difference being that it was so jerky and jumped around so much it was damn near undriveable. Plus it couldnt hold sixth ever...

And I NEVER achieved mileage numbers like that on a commute. My tank average is 19.6 right now.

 

Also unless I'm going southsto Seattle, there's no hwy near me that I wouldn't climb 4000ft up on a 200mile drive. And ain't no Tacoma doing 20mpg up those...