Please Do NOT post one or two time fill ups, short trips, Scan-guage read-outs, head or tail winds. You are free to share that in other threads.
Lets post solid figures here for us and prospective patrons to read how our areo-dynamic rigs do with fuel consumption.
If you have tracked your fuel economy accurately over thousands of miles, please share your figures with the rest of us. Be sure to include the following
- The year and model of your PC
- The chassis and chassis year (E350, E450, Sprinter)
- Dry weight of your PC as stated on the PC sticker
- Towing, No or Yes (if yes, what exactly including weight of tow)
- Miles driven
- Top practiced speed limits
- Type of fuel generally purchased (Octane -Low, Mid-grade, High)
- how your figures were calculated
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For Me....
2007 PC-2350
2007 E350 with V10 engine
9200 pound dry weight (no slide out)
Towing, see below
Miles driven, see below
Practiced speed limits, see below
Always the lowest octane sold (87 in most places, 85 at high altitude places)
Fuel economy, averaged from the gas station near home, back to that same gas station, keeping accurate record of gallons purchased along the way.
Trip "A" (during break-in period...if there is such a thing as a break-in period anymore)
- towing a 2200 pound, 2000 Toyota MR2 Spyder, 100% of the time. This means that all locally driven miles are done with the car. The PC stayed parked at camp sites.
- 5039 mile journey from Chicago, to San Francisco, to Las Vegas, and a lot of places in between. Highway, mountain and canyon driving combined.
- top speed is consistently 5 mph over posted speed limits when towing, but never exceeding 70mph.
Averaged over the 5039 miles driven = 9.5 mpg
Trip "B"
- towing 4300 pound, 2006 Jeep Liberty 4x4, 100% of the time. This means that all locally driven miles are done with the 4x4. The PC stayed parked at camp sites.
- 3826 mile journey from Chicago, to Jasper Alberta and a lot of places in between. Highway & mountain driving combined.
- top speed is consistently 5 mph over posted speed limits when towing, but never exceeding 70mph.
Averaged over the 3826 miles driven = 9.2 mpg
Trip "C" (very short trip, almost doesn't meet my own criteria)
- Not towing anything so all driving was done with the motor home.
- shorter trip of about 800 miles, 700 highway, 100 local.
- loaded up with 5 adults for a wedding.
- typical cruising speed was 65mph on the open road interstate driving.
Averaged over the 800 miles driven = 10.2 mpg
These figures are as accurate as I could get with no fluff of any kind. Actually I favored worse economy when averaging 10ths of gallons, so if anything my true fuel economy is better than stated.
