BlueRanger
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Are you all getting accurate MPG from the Truck? Mine is off by about 20%. I'm getting less than what the truck says.
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Most people seem to have the truck report better than hand calculated mileage. Here is a posting that tells how to calibrate the computer on the truck to be more accurate. I've done it twice now and the truck now is very close to hand calculated values.Are you all getting accurate MPG from the Truck? Mine is off by about 20%. I'm getting less than what the truck says.
Chris
Thanks for the useful information. I will give it a try.Most people seem to have the truck report better than hand calculated mileage. Here is a posting that tells how to calibrate the computer on the truck to be more accurate. I've done it twice now and the truck now is very close to hand calculated values.
Same here. Average mileage per tank fill-up regardless of octane is giving me 20% lower MPG when calculated manually after 6-8 fillups. The procedure that RedLandRanger links to does not work in my 2019 Ranger Lariat - I don't get the 'engineering' screen.Are you all getting accurate MPG from the Truck? Mine is off by about 20%. I'm getting less than what the truck says.
Chris
Curious that it does not work for you - you have to hold the button down for a while as I recall - as far as I know everyone who has tired it has been successful.Same here. Average mileage per tank fill-up regardless of octane is giving me 20% lower MPG when calculated manually after 6-8 fillups. The procedure that RedLandRanger links to does not work in my 2019 Ranger Lariat - I don't get the 'engineering' screen.
I fully get that driving conditions influence mileage, but right now I get (actual) about 16 MPG on 87 octane (10% Ethanol advertised) and 18 MPG on 89 octane driving the same route(s) each week. The few times I've splurged on 93 octane it's almost reached 20 MPG - I only do the calc after the second fill of the same octane value. The computer consistently displays around 2 MPG more than what I work out manually. Each of those grades of gasoline are about thirty cents more expensive per gallon and from an economic standpoint don't provide a return on cost.
I will say that low speed driveability has felt best with the 89 octane with less perceived lunging at lower gears. I've got about 3700 miles on the truck so far, and rarely use Sport Mode.
I live at sea level and haven't taken a long distance trip yet, that will be a different experiment.
Your state's weights and measures enforcement agency should be regularly checking pumps to verify their accuracy (usually there'll be a little sticker showing when it was last checked), so I'd trust that more than whatever the computer is measuring. But, like you say, even that doesn't guarantee perfection. Around the time I started driving, my parents discovered that when they filled up at one particular pump at one particular station, they would get an apparent boost in calculated MPGs. This went on for months, and at times there would be people waiting for that particular pump even though other pumps were available (obviously, we weren't the only ones who discovered it), despite my dad telling the station clerks about the "issue" a couple different times.I am sure that gas pumps are also NOT always perfect.
Just curious (if you remember) - what value did you change it to? I believe the last time I changed mine it was to 944. I'm very close typically - sometimes more than what the truck says, sometimes less. It still varies, but it is much closer than it was originally.Mine is an XLT. I was able to make the change following the instructions to the letter. On my first full tank after the correction my mileage reported by the Ranger and by hand were within less than 1/10 of an MPG so I'm happy. Also gives me more faith in the estimate of when I am going to run out of gas. I didn't like knowing that that number was wrong too. 2mpg means 36 miles that I can't actually drive when the computer says I can.
Good to know. I hope I can find this link if I need it. I keep a notebook in each of my vehicles to log miles and gallons at fill up. Based on my first and only fill up, the dash mileage was w/in 0.1 of my ciphering.Most people seem to have the truck report better than hand calculated mileage. Here is a posting that tells how to calibrate the computer on the truck to be more accurate. I've done it twice now and the truck now is very close to hand calculated values.