12mpg. Hoping to improve my numbers...

That’s a good specific number- 4ish % is not a huge factor in my mpg then. I’m a teacher and we are coming up on Christmas break so I will get a highway tank in very shortly here.

 

My '14 DCSB w/6MT does OK for MPG...18-19 hwy at 67 mph..84K miles

LT 265-75x16 Cooper ST Maxx @ 34 PSI

We have one red light in the county......I can usually hit it green if I pay attention.......

 

I just can't agree with you here.

I went from +17.5 MPG down to +15.5 MPG and all I did was swap from P-Rated Hankook AT's to C-Rated Duratracs. Same size tire.

The most fuel efficiency I ever saw out of this V6 was when it was bone stock running the BFG Rugged Trails. I averaged around 19MPG. Once I even got 21.5 MPG on a road trip, I'd traveled 130mi by the time the needle showed 1/4 empty. Never seen that happen again.

• Bumping up to 265/75's P-Rated lost me around ~.5mpg. 18.5 MPG average.
• Rock sliders took another half. 18 MPG Average
• Roof Rack was a bigger hit than I'd anticipated, lost about 1 full MPG actually. 17MPG Average
• DuraTracs went on, lost about 1.5MPG down to 15.5.

18.5 down to 15.5 All within the span of a year. It is what it is. Cost of doing business with the 1GR-FE.

 

Aren’t the engines after 2011 dual vvti? That’s what my 4Runner was and have read that people say that is good for another 1-2mpg also

 

On my 2002 GMC Sierra 5.3L V8, I went from Load Range C Goodyear Adventure avg. 18 mpgs to Load Range E Yokohama Geolanders avg 15 mpgs now.

My 2009 Tacoma w/ 280k miles has a 3" lift and armor (front bumper, sliders, roof rack, skids) but I have Hankook Dynapro ATM tires at 41 lbs each on 17 inch aluminum TRD Sema Pro rims, I can get 21 MPGS on the highway at 65 mph. At 75 mph, I'm at 17 mpg. At 80 mph, I'm more in the 15 mpg range.

I blame the Load Range E tires in your case more than anything else.

 

You're a teacher?

Thank you for your service.

 

Yup- finishing up finals right now. Well, I appreciate your gratitude. We could stand to see/ hear more of that in teaching and learning. I teach high school Spanish.

 

If you can get over the additional noise, the performance of a upgraded Y-pipe like Doug Thorley flows more efficiently with 2.5" mandrel bent piping. The stock pipe is restrictive and shaped for clearance (hindering performance). Just my belief after seeing it first hand with record logs of increasing 1-2 mpg.

 

Feeling much better, knowing someone gets worse than my 12 mpg

 

Agreed. Asinine of me, did you just switch to winter mix? That can easily mess with mileage, especially city.

 

Asinine, nah. I do always get better mileage when it's parked, just never put 2 and 2 together til you pointed it out. I have just switched to winter mix, but I have also been tuning up and fixing as stations have changed over so I think any improvements I made have seemed negligible. Maybe in the spring I will make a sudden jump in mpg.

 

Just threw up

 

Priuck? Priute? Pruck?

Edit: I kind of like it. Reminds me of the tesla ute/ truck thing I saw on youtube.