How's your towing gas mileage?

[ParrishCamper]

I use truck for tracking.
Once I start towing I reset the average MPG display.
When I first bought the truck I would write it down to compare. It wasn't exact but it was close.

[Kim Gass]

Terrible when towing on the highway. The Ridgeline is geared for economy and it runs 3500 rpm when towing a little 195 RB

Give it some hills with a 12 percent grade and it is fine at 2000 rpm and 30 mph.

Of course 50 mph winds don't help

Overall not towing 20 mpg. 12 mpg when towing. Gas engine six.

[Swampy]

I towed the TT from Kiln, Ms. to Morton, Ms. (Roosevelt State Park) 13+ mpg with 4.3 L V6 Chevy Silverado. About 1/3 on interstate @ 60mph The other 2/3 45~55phh through hills.

............. Swampy

[Bluegrass Picker]

15 +/- (depending on terrain) @ 60mph.

JayFlight 22FB trailer, 2015 Jeep Grand Cherokee EcoDiesel.

Moderately loaded and half full of water.

34mpg not towing.

[Paintinfool3]

I have a 2011 F250 with the 6.7 diesel and combined I get 15.9 when I have a little more highway than stoplights, I got 19.6 on highway driving between 70 and 73 most of the trip and had 1 hour of stop and go because of an accident. Towing my trailer at 8500 with a car in it, this is my car hauler not my tt I got 11.6 driving 68 to 70. these are all numbers from my dash cleared for each individual circumstance as I wanted to know all 3 situations

[RAurand]

Originally Posted by DocBrown

You can expect anywhere between 8 - 12 mpg. Most of us average closer to 10. That's what I get, 10 mpg. Never fret about the mileage, it's simple physics. You are taking a box and dragging it into the wind at high speed. Lots of resistance.

That said it is good to monitor mileage for one reason. If you find your baseline and your mileage goes down, something is wrong and needs attention

We average about 8.5 to 9 mpg.

Unless you start going up a lot of long hills. That will change things up.

[pman1088]

12 when towing.....if I never go over 65. Once I kept it at the posted 80mph freeway speed. That got me 7.

[Saturn V]

9.4 @ 60 mph

[namusmc65]

2015 Ram 2500 with the Cumins 6.7L towing a 2014 33.5RETS Eagle. We are averaging about 12 towing and around 17 not towing. I'm really happy with that and Diesel was $1.85 a gallon in Georgetown, GA when I filled up Sunday coming home. Whoopee!

[BuddyRay]

I've become a HUGE fan of my new 2016 F150 with the EcoBoost Engine. It's a V6 with twin turbo's. When not towing it's getting 25-26 mpg on the highway and 18-19 around town. My old 2003 Ford Explorer with a big V8 didn't have near the horsepower, was a lighter vehicle and was lucky to get 16mpg around town.

I've only towed one weekend so far with the rig in my signature, in the north Georgia mountains, but I was very impressed to run from 10 to 12 mpg. I suspect on flatter ground (say headed to Florida) I could pull 12 - 13.

I use the trucks computer to track mileage. The new Ford Sync 3 system has 2 trip monitors, each tracks gas mileage separately from the overall mileage number. So it's easy to track what you're getting while towing and not towing.

Back when I still had the V8 Explorer we did a LONG, 8k trip out west. I carefully tracked mileage on each tankful. I became convinced of two things.

1) Wind direction has much more effect on mileage than I expected - going across flat Kansas wheat fields, headed N to the Dakota's we were getting almost 16 mpg with a tail wind. A week later, coming home, south across flat terrain but facing a stiff wind we were having trouble keeping 8 mpg.

2) There IS a difference in gas. I know the stuff about "it all comes out of the same pipeline" but running in the same terrain and same wind, I could see several mpg difference between gas bought at "no name" stations and gas bought at BP, Chevron, etc. And they were all rated at the same octane.

[Silverado04]

We have a 2004 Silverado 1500 4x4 Z71
1st trip with TT we got almost 12 mpg towing over 5000lbs

[Kim Gass]

We're looking forward to going East and downhill.. Not fighting 50 mph headwinds at 60 mph.

Probably not so much climbing between 6 and 10000 feet multiple times.

I don't think high altitude helps mileage nor the incredible dust on dirt roads ( and we have been on lots)

Currently in Holbrook AZ

[SouthCo]

Never have clocked MPG's towing. Bought the diesel because I knew it would always have better MPG's vs any gasser towing the same load and it always has power to spare... My favorite thing is that the engine never has to go over 2k rpms to pull...

[lpasco]

I'm not sure on my new 2016 287bhsw but on my last 1999 Terry with a super slide and a foot longer (8000 lbs) I got about 14 at 60
2003 ram 3500 Cummins

[Gone campin]

Went from Maryland to Ohio last week - through the mountains on I-68 - and got 8.7 avg MPG... other times with less climbing, I have hit 10 MPG.

[Kim Gass]

Originally Posted by Gone campin

Went from Maryland to Ohio last week - through the mountains on I-68 - and got 8.7 avg MPG... other times with less climbing, I have hit 10 MPG.

We went the other way this am. 12.3

[olyelr]

Originally Posted by Kim Gass

We went the other way this am. 12.3

So far the last few trips im around 8.5-9 mpg.

[robkelly]

Averaged 12 on the trip we just wrapped up. MA to TN and back, with a lot of it in the mountains


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[Camper_bob]

Last weekend, got about 10 with a nice little tail wind behind me. Fought the head and cross wind all the way home, got around 8.5.

Who'd have thought I'd be fighting a North wind in TX in June?! And it wasn't just a little breeze either!

[cekkk]

I haven't checked while towing for probably a couple of years. I used to track every trip, but it consistently ran in the 10s, with occasional single tank fillls showing upper 9s and low 11s. It seems like we're either running against a headwind or a crosswind. Must be one of Murphy's Laws.

My non-towing driving is infrequent but pretty much the same, four and a half miles with 900' elevation change each way, 19 hwy each way and three or four miles in town. I checked the last tank because I was planning on changing the fuel filter with the upcoming oil change and I wanted to know if there was any change. Got 16.4 and am working on the new tank full. Not expecting much difference.