Put your foot in your mouth. They call it highway mileage for a reason.

Kelmvor, I'm sorry but you do not have the mods, you have a 1714 programmer and what else. Get real. How many RPM's are you guys turning at 54-55mph. To get 12-13mpg you must be hitting 2300-2500 f'ing RPM's...obviously you've never ran a trip @ 55mph w/cruise (it will usually downshift with cruise).

How about this, I'll take a pic of my odometer as soon as I leave, the clock, the sun's location if you gripe but I'll document everything. Get a receipt for the fillup and take the trip up to pismo and refill with Dave and whoever as my witness. I will then calculate my mileage...will you shutup if it's at the very least 18mpg on average. Once again I was promoting highway mileage, stop stubbing your toe.

Nice try on the Mommy and Daddy part you little *****. I really can't stand people like you, and can't wait to put a sock in your mouth. Leave this forum and give me your trucks, oh the shame. I love how morons like you come into the thread, read 19mpg and call bs without reading the entire thing. 19mpg @ 55mph turning around 1200rpms & many mods resulting in decreased parasytic loss from the fly to the ground, 37's which cover more ground clearance (especially at mid-end power where the weight is not as big of a part as it is on low end). I can go on but Kelmvor, most people on here have learned to ignore your dumbarse posts so Penguin, get back to me as the only guy here even attempting to digest facts. I made it very clear I was not talking about average mileage of in town driving whatsoever, I said I can hit and hold 19mpg for an entire highway stretch (which I can), keep that average through town for a bit and am extremely willing to prove this. There is a flight leaving tomorrow evening @ 9pm with 9 layovers. I'll pay.

 

And because you've cruised at 65 mph doesn't mean you've ventured into the world at 55mph. There is about a 3mpg difference when travelling at 54 and 60mph. You can use the + and - button on the steering wheel controls to adjust your speed. You will find your greatest gas mileage by doing so, just because you're at the lowest rpm doesn't mean you're getting the greatest fuel mileage either as you can hear it bog down if you go too low. If you have the Edge or Lariat message center you can use that for what its worth just to find the "sweet spot". Mine is right at 54mph or so, if I go lower my mileage will become worse (obviously).

It's not like I'm making this hard to digest, I did not come on here posting it in an adolescent manner. The e-bay listing might be another story but certainly not here. I've argued with reason and tried to keep my composure in check, hopefully morons like Kelmvor will stop jumping the gun.

 

Josiah, don't worry. Most of us realize Kelmvor is one of the biggest idiots on this website. However, I do agree that you could get that kind of gas mileage. I only had 35s, stock 3.73 LS, Edge, SI/DO Flowmaster 40, and a K&N Drop-IN and I was able to get around 16-17 mpg on the highway at 65-70 mph. Another fact people need to realize that is when you have a larger tire, stock gears, it changes your gear ratio which also enables better gas mileage on the highway.

Josiah, take it easy man and don't worry about it.

 

Please fellas keep it civil and be nice. In the words of my father "we're being nice."

Josiah, The last time you let yourself get this upset, you got hit in the head with a pipe. It's ok man, if two guys online don't believe you, more power to them and you. No biggy.

Duke

 

Josiah:

I'd love to continue this little festering argument of yours, but quite honestly I am growing rather tiresome of attempting to following your wandering logic and incoherent ramblings...

Bottom line: "Highway mileage" is totally worthless in real-world applications. You don't open up your wallet at the pump for "highway miles." The tank is still empty and it got there somehow.

You can continue to attack character all you'd like, I'm glad it floats your boat, but rest assured that I'll still be able to sleep at night. The fact that an ignorant child thinks poorly of me doesn't really have any lasting effects. You seem to be standing alone there with that position, but be that as it may...

Stop wasting server space, bothering me with flight plans, and stop bothering me about my vehicles because the "wager" was merely to illustrate a point. Besides, you seem to lack the basic communication skills of a normally functioning adult human being to even understand the point of my argument. (*please refer to the "bottom line" section of this post)

 

You brought up a great point, I appreciate it. The effective gearing ratio is well below 3.55's so it's really not that difficult to fathom. These numbers go to show how correct it really is, now all you can do is attack my character Penguin which you have.

I've always been very **** when someone challenges my integrity as I'm anything but a liar, if we were face to face I'd have been past arguing long ago. I know how I view liars and am very edgy when I might be viewed as one. I'm putting this one behind me.

 

 

 

There used to be this little stealership in a town near me growing up. They used to have these wonderful lease advertisements running all the time.

In big letters, it would say, "New 325i, $149 for 39 months."

However, when you finished reading the various disclaimers, caveats, condition requirements, and stipulations, the $149 no longer carried any meaning.

One might draw some similarities to some recent events on here...

"On the 3rd Thursday of the month following a full solar eclipse, provided the hurricane season has passed in the Northern Hemisphere, but not without the first snowfall of the new year without hail and thunder, notwithstanding any abnormal conditions, such as stop and go traffic, speeds not to exceed or fall below exactly 55mph for approximately 99.99% of the driving time on 1 full tank of gas given a tolerence of 1/2 mph for 1 trip per year..."

^^^ Based on that, I am in total agreement.

 

I have a legitimate question. When you list something on ebay, and you want a certain amount for it, why don't you start the bidding at that point? Why start it lower and put a reserve amount that has to be reached anyway? Just wondering.

 

I use highway mileage all the time, I take trips almost every weekend, and when I drive to work I am ..... using a highway.

I guess your paper route doesnt require you to make long trips!

 

Well, mileage is immaterial for my "paper route," seeing as I am provided with a rather nice company vehicle and I do not pay for gasoline.

You might want to get a "paper route" as well... After all, it's not my fault you need to take the highway.

 

im not one to take sides.....but here it seems everyone is on josiahs side...and vs penguin and kelmvor

 

Guys, take it easy! We're all friends here.

ME TOO! AMEN!

. . and you're point is?

 

OK first off I'm not posting this to bash Penguin or Josiah. But I definitely don't agree with this statement and if I'm wrong with my way of thinking and misread this please correct me.

"Highway Mileage" is totally worthless in real world applications you don't open up your wallet at the pump for "highway miles"

I just took a 750 mile round trip that was "highway miles". Now when I opened up my wallet and put my debit card in the machine that was going to give me gasoline to the tune of $3.69 per gallon my first thought was HOLY **** I need to pay attention to my speeds so I can get the most MPG's possible. How was the trip where 745 of those 750 miles were "highway mileage" worthless in a real world application? My bank account begs to differ on that one. I probably got another 80-90 miles from that tank by driving conservatively than the way I might have driven if gas prices were lower. So it's pretty safe to say that I and a whole lot of other people right now open up their wallets for highway miles with the expectation of getting the most for their money.

I agree with Teckbargins... he drives the highway to work everyday as well as quite a few other people on this site not fortunate enough to have a company car or live close to their jobs, I'm sure almost every one of them would disagree with this as well.

Like I said this is not a post flaming anyone so I hope people don't get all defensive here. THIS IS JUST MY OPINION