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Fuel economy was a major draw for me but not a deal breaker. Early on I figured out how to put the Ranger in 'engineering mode' to correct the onboard computer, and I'm generally within half a mile per gallon compared to hand calculations. I'm about 80% highway but traffic speeds are often closer to 80MPH.
My averages calculated manually are very close to 19 MPG now, but I've modded my truck with a free flow exhaust which might hurt in some instances (?), a performance tune (not sure that hurts at sustained highway speeds but in town - ouch) on premium which was consistently yielding just under 17 MPG until I tested the VelossaTech 'big mouth for our trucks. I drive the same routes with the same traffic and same habits in pretty consistent weather conditions and logged about a two MPG improvement overall.
I doubt I'd see as good an improvement in city driving and I suppose if I drove more highway at reasonable speeds it would be better - perhaps even 'as advertised' but as evidenced by responses above there are a lot of variables at work. Not every single truck of the production line is going to be precisely the same though I'd expect they are all darn close.
My averages calculated manually are very close to 19 MPG now, but I've modded my truck with a free flow exhaust which might hurt in some instances (?), a performance tune (not sure that hurts at sustained highway speeds but in town - ouch) on premium which was consistently yielding just under 17 MPG until I tested the VelossaTech 'big mouth for our trucks. I drive the same routes with the same traffic and same habits in pretty consistent weather conditions and logged about a two MPG improvement overall.
I doubt I'd see as good an improvement in city driving and I suppose if I drove more highway at reasonable speeds it would be better - perhaps even 'as advertised' but as evidenced by responses above there are a lot of variables at work. Not every single truck of the production line is going to be precisely the same though I'd expect they are all darn close.
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