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- Mar 24, 2011
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- Location
- Aurora, CO
- Vehicle Year
- 1998
- Make / Model
- Ford
- Engine Size
- 302 V8
- Transmission
- Automatic
I don't have my foot in it very often. I shift at like 2 1/2 - 3 thousand rpms. Im about due for the first oil change I've had since I got my truck so Idk if it has a bad plug or anything.take your foot out of the floor. i know about 100 people that say, oh my fuel economy sucks on my 4 cylinder car. go for a test drive, they launch hard.
every truck wears different. your wind drag, tire pressure, regular maintenance, oil you use, dif fluid you use, amount of power you draw from the alternator, if you let it idle before driving, gear ratio, auto or manual, trans flushes, coolant flushes, new or old belts, plugs and wires.
theres so many factors, everybody will get different.
i get 360 miles to a tank average. sometimes 380, sometimes 340. thats with a 4.0 with 32's and 4.56 gears.
like i said, take your foot out of it and you'll be fine. acceleration is where you burn the most. dont speed, dont let it rev over 2000 rpm on a start, dont throttle up hills.
its easy, you just gotta do it. my truck is rated at 16 mpg city. i get 18-20. believe me, i know ive run 3957.33 litres of gas through my truck, i know how much was E85, and was pure fuel. thats about 57.35 tanks since i bought it. at 550 a tank, thats 31,544 kms. i got it with 38,456 and im right around 69,920 now. ive changed the oil 6 times, and im half way to my next. i run full synthetic. if you know your vehicle, you know when its got a fouled plug, a dirty air filter, or a sensor going bad before it does.
if you arent as anal as me, you get worse MPG
I'm 100% sure mine has the little gas light. I know because I've seen it before and you can kinda see the outline of it if you look close enough. I actually like it so I can get the most accurate mpgJust in case somebody else posted it and I missed it, your truck does not have a low fuel light. The "check gage" light is the one that will come on if you run it low enough. They don't always come on at the same point either. When my truck was new , it came on at about 1/8 tank, now I have to run it almost below the E to get it to come on. Sort of a useless feature anyway.
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