Gas Mileage Info

[Used 2B PopUPTimes]

Thank you all very much!!!

[rock_hound]

Towing = 17 mpg
Not towing = 19 mpg
# of engine cyclinders in your TV = 6 (05 Nissan Frontier)
Size of your camper = 12'

[Rowdy]

Towing: 11 mpg
Not towing: 17
# of engine cyclinders in your TV: 8 (5.4L)
Size of your camper 30' TT

Towing: 19 (on trip to Alaska)
Not towing: 21
#cyl: 6 (300CID)
Size of camper: 8' popup

[Dave Krahl]

Not towing 22 - 25
Towing 21-24
4 Cyl. 2.5 liter Subaru
8' Coleman Taos, ~1300 lbs loaded

Speed limit while towing here in CA is 55. Would probably be worse towing mileage if limit was 65.

We're helping one of the manufacturers do some research about gas mileage and could use your help. Please tell us what your mileage is when

Towing
Not towing
# of engine cyclinders in your TV
Size of your camper

I'll go first in the next post

Thanks
Dave

[Old Goat]

Towing-- 13-14 MPG
Not towing-- 16 MPG
 pickup truck with 8 cyl. towing Coleman 12'

[SpeakEasy]

OK, now that they have a bunch of useful data, I'll go slightly off-topic and share something I found interesting. This past July, while on a 3000-mile camping trip, I kept scrupulous records of my gas mileage. I experimented with different grades of gas. My owners' manual recommends using premium gas. SO -- I tried it and found that my mileage (while towing) increased about 11% when I used premium as compared with using regular. Now, at the time, nearly all gas stations were charging $0.20 more per gallon for premium than for regular. At the time, $0.20 was less than a 10% difference. I think it was more like an 8% difference. Which meant that I came out ahead by buying premium. As gas prices have skyrocketed in the past couple of weeks, I find that many stations are still separating the regular from the premium by $0.20. This makes the relative cost of using premium even better, because a $0.20 margin is a smaller percentage of the base cost. If premium is $3.50 and regular is $3.30, that means premium is only about 6% higher than regular. Remember, I get an 11% boost in mileage! Some stations, however, have begun separating regular from premium by about $0.40. This takes away the financial advantage of using premium, even though the mileage is better.

Just thought you'd like to know.

[Jim J]

Towing 14-17 highway
not towing 18-20 highway
4.7 ltr V8
10' box 2300 lbs loaded
driving at 65 mph

I gained almost 2 mpg by switching to a K&N full flow air filter!