Gas Mileage with LIFT!!

There are like 50 posts about gas mileage on this forum and they always depress me when i hear everybody talking about 20, 22 mpg! Well those of us with a V6, and 6" Lift and 35 inch tires definetly aren't! haha

For those of you that have lifted tacos (more specifically 6" lift and 34-35 inch tires) please respond and tell me what your getting? I'm usually at 70 miles at 3/4 tank, 150 miles at 1/2 tank, and the light comes on at like 240 or so... is this normal? like 14 mpg??? Granted you've gotta pay the price to have the big bad truck and big tires, but is that mileage normal for my scenario? let me know guys. Thanks.

 

I'm sure you've seen this mentioned but have you computed your speedometer error with the bigger tires? I'm guessing those are 20 or 25% bigger than stock so your odometer will read that percentage fewer miles than you've actually driven.

 

yeah i've thought of that, do you know what size tires come on the 05 Tacoma, stock??? mine are 305/70/17 goodyear MTR's i think thats about equivalent to a 34 inch tall tire.

 

Use Discount Tire's tire calculator to see how much your odometer/speedometer is off. The tire size depends on the model. If it's a TRD Off-road the stock size is 265/70 R16 and I believe the stock on the sport is 265/70 R17. That would mean you have about a 7% speedo error so about 257 actual miles when you're reading 240 miles.

 

yeah is wish it was the TRD, its not thought i just went outside and looked at my driver's side door info, and its stock tire size is a 245/75/16, so thats a 30.50 inch tire. That discount tire calculator thing showed exactly where i should be. looks like my new tires are 10.5% larger... or at least the circumference is. so the speedo is 10% off. good to know. Thanks for the help.