Does high top shells like leer 180 effect mpgs?

Thanks!

 

I had an ARE MX installed at 600 mi so I don't have much pre-installation MPGs. Now with 16K mi the average MPG is 22.5 and climbing.

 

...Nope, NOT Whitman!.....it was either Mark Twain, or Samuel Clemens...........

 

Its all about resistance an drag. If something is causing a drag it takes more energy to push it. Something with sleek lines an does not protrude upwards will not effect mileage other than weight. Which it takes a lot more weight to effect mileage.

 

When I added a shell, in stop and go traffic, I noticed a drop I'm assuming just from the added weight. On the highway, I did not have any loss of MPG. I do a lot of the same highway trips, cruise control, same traffic conditions so I had a lot to compare to. The truck has better aerodynamics with the cap than without. I only had a mid-rise cap, the ARE MX series so I can't comment if it was any better or worse than a cab-high cap would be.

 

If you put this on your truck I am sure it will change your MPG by a few miles....lol

 

Technically, punching the ground will have an effect on the earth itself. Nobody wants to count how many decimal places that is, but physics is physics.

I do not have a hi-top (ARE-V series), but I've recently bested the 26mpg tank that I got back in the fall when the truck was new and completely stock. So, perhaps temperature, road conditions, driving habits will have a greater impact than a cap.

Although, I did have a basket of coolers and such on my roof rack for a long trip. This absolutely murdered my mpg.

If I had it to do over again, I'd probably get an MX.

 

I would make a joke about how Sam was the gay one, but it would go over your head and you would then explain the obvious

 

affect*

 

If you are trying to correct me, you are wrong. "affect" would be correct if it was used as a verb and not a noun.

Example:

"punching the ground will affect the earth itself" ... is also correct.

 

Same here.

Oops I have a 2nd Gen. Sorry.

 

read the title if I was correcting you I'd quote you

 

Well, you didn't quote the title, so ...

 

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I don't know what that is but it's awesome. It has a unibrow it looks like

 

Not sure what it is from either, but it reminds me of the faces I make when I'm pretending to be sober.

 

No impact on my truck.

 

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I don't have a shell on my truck but I can safely tell you that any thing you do to alter the aerodynamics is going to make you take a hit on mpg.


With my truck loaded like this on 2 trips from Waco,Texas to Padre Island national Seashore I got 21mpg. There is around 1000 lbs in the bed alone.

Loaded up like this on the same trip from Waco to P.I.N.S. I get 16-17 mpg. No real weight change but definitely a difference in my drag coefficient.

The biggest hit I took on my mpg over all was the addition of my roof rack about 1.5-2 mpg.

Sorry for being off topic a little but still useable information for some of the people on here.