Your overhead mileage reading

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Your overhead mileage reading

Post by johnsims » Thu Mar 14, 2013 8:17 am

What does yours say for avg mileage? I am at 12.4 and I am both city and hwy driving. It stays right around that.
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Re: Your overhead mileage reading

Post by TwinStick » Thu Mar 14, 2013 9:15 am

Mine reads between 9-10 mpg, which is EXACTLY what i get hand calculated. A lot of folks say they are very inaccurate, mine have been dead on in last 3 trucks. 00' Dakota QC 4x4 w/5.9 gas & 3.92, 04' 2500 QC w/Hemi auto trans & 4.10's & my 08' QC Power Wagon.
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Re: Your overhead mileage reading

Post by Cactus Red » Thu Mar 14, 2013 9:55 am

With a 35" tire, it's off about the same as the speedo - 5%. I really don't like watching it...
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Re: Your overhead mileage reading

Post by vanished » Thu Mar 14, 2013 10:18 am

Usually 9-10 here as well...
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Re: Your overhead mileage reading

Post by pzoeller » Thu Mar 14, 2013 11:01 am

Mine is sitting around 11.8 plus 4% for the 35's so 12.3'ish but that's mostly highway doing 65mph. I've hand calculated a few times and always comes out within 5% of what the overhead says.
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Re: Your overhead mileage reading

Post by Ducky's Dad » Thu Mar 14, 2013 11:42 am

Mine shows 9.8 and it's dead-on, based on hand calcs for a 1000 mile trip with correction for 35" tires. Mine is mostly highway use with short bursts of off-road activity at the destination.
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Re: Your overhead mileage reading

Post by djgaston » Thu Mar 14, 2013 11:52 am

I haven't checked the Wagon yet, but I just wanted to add that my V10 gets 9.3 mpg. They killed the V10 for the Hemi, supposedly for better MPG. Lol.
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Re: Your overhead mileage reading

Post by PWRider » Thu Mar 14, 2013 1:30 pm

Mine is very accurate as well but goes up and down. Currently reads 12.7 (or 13.3 adjusted for 35's) at about 2300 miles. Good chunk hwy and some off-road.
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Re: Your overhead mileage reading

Post by PWRider » Thu Mar 14, 2013 1:33 pm

What's your best tank mileage? Best I've got was 482 on just under 33 gallons if I'm not mistaken. Yeah it was pretty low. 14.6 mpg. It was on stock size tires.
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Re: Your overhead mileage reading

Post by johnsims » Thu Mar 14, 2013 6:41 pm

I run synthetics in the axles and motor, and I never drive over 63 mph when on the hwy. I guess that is why mine is at 12.4. On the hwy I think I have seen it around 17. Oh and I run the factory size tires,
they are road tires not off road.
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Re: Your overhead mileage reading

Post by TrueCowboy426 » Thu Mar 14, 2013 8:42 pm

I get 12 to 12.5 and last I hand calc'd it was pretty accurate. I do a lot of highway driving so that helps. I get better mileage in my PW than my old 4.7 Ram.
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Re: Your overhead mileage reading

Post by 04Ram2500Hemi » Sat Mar 16, 2013 12:00 pm

I average pretty close to 12mpg with my 4th Gen, which I'm pretty sure is heavier in stock form than a stock 3rd Gen. Maybe the new 6spd Auto is helping (I'm not sure about that).
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Re: Your overhead mileage reading

Post by verdesardog » Sat Mar 16, 2013 8:43 pm

mine seems pretty accurate...about 19 hyw, 12-14 off road.
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Re: Your overhead mileage reading

Post by bstefanic » Wed Mar 20, 2013 11:27 am

avg about 8.9-9.2, the high altitude and steep road grades around here certainly don't help
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Re: Your overhead mileage reading

Post by w2dodge » Wed Mar 20, 2013 11:47 am

I avg 14.8 on hwy at 65mph...tires at 50psi...305s...no added mods on engine...
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Re: Your overhead mileage reading

Post by RustyPW » Wed Mar 20, 2013 10:01 pm

I don't even look at mine anymore. It scares me! :(
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Re: Your overhead mileage reading

Post by 06wagon » Thu Mar 21, 2013 6:30 am

RustyPW wrote:I don't even look at mine anymore. It scares me! :(
Same here..... It's just better that way!
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