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I just got back from a long road trip to my home state of Iowa to attend a funeral.
In June I did a 2700 mile trip to Yellowstone and did a post about that trip previously. On that trip I averaged an actual 26.8 MPG, pen & paper calculations.
2021 Badlands.
This trip I did 4,189 miles. I left trip 1 on the dash readout calculate the whole trip. It showed a 28.6 MPG overall, but the actual was 26.9 with about 220 miles of town driving. Almost the exact MPG as my previous trip.
Going from SoCal, it was I-15 thru Nevada and Utah to I-70 east into Colorado, then I-76 Colorado to Nebraska onto I-80 into Iowa.
Return trip was I-80 thru Nebraska, Wyoming, to I-15 south in Utah and home. A lot of climbing mountains, headwinds and tailwinds.
Used either 87 or 88 octane fuel. Prices were jumping up a lot during the whole trip.
I have Adaptive Cruise Control and used it the whole trip. On any future vehicles I own, it will be a must have.
The only issue was the Sync 3 Navigation. I had on the speed limit sign recognition which worked ok. But even though the map version I have is the latest update, there were numerous times when it thought the speed limit was lower even though no sign was present.
It abruptly dropped from 75 to 55 or 45 mph.
The only thing I can think of is the map version showed previous road construction on the Interstate and a lower speed limit even though construction was completed. This probably happened at least 10 times.
Quite a surprise to suddenly feel the brakes applied and a quick speed drop. Actually a safety issue if someone is following you closely including 18 wheelers.
26 MPG is the stated highway mileage on the window sticker so I'm happy to see it's close to what I've been getting.
I have the Wildpeaks and with 15K miles on them. They are wearing well. Going thru Vegas and Mesquite the temperature was about 110 degrees. I set the tire pressure to 33 PSI as recommended. It rose as high as 41 PSI with the heat thru Vegas.
End of report.
In June I did a 2700 mile trip to Yellowstone and did a post about that trip previously. On that trip I averaged an actual 26.8 MPG, pen & paper calculations.
2021 Badlands.
This trip I did 4,189 miles. I left trip 1 on the dash readout calculate the whole trip. It showed a 28.6 MPG overall, but the actual was 26.9 with about 220 miles of town driving. Almost the exact MPG as my previous trip.
Going from SoCal, it was I-15 thru Nevada and Utah to I-70 east into Colorado, then I-76 Colorado to Nebraska onto I-80 into Iowa.
Return trip was I-80 thru Nebraska, Wyoming, to I-15 south in Utah and home. A lot of climbing mountains, headwinds and tailwinds.
Used either 87 or 88 octane fuel. Prices were jumping up a lot during the whole trip.
I have Adaptive Cruise Control and used it the whole trip. On any future vehicles I own, it will be a must have.
The only issue was the Sync 3 Navigation. I had on the speed limit sign recognition which worked ok. But even though the map version I have is the latest update, there were numerous times when it thought the speed limit was lower even though no sign was present.
It abruptly dropped from 75 to 55 or 45 mph.
The only thing I can think of is the map version showed previous road construction on the Interstate and a lower speed limit even though construction was completed. This probably happened at least 10 times.
Quite a surprise to suddenly feel the brakes applied and a quick speed drop. Actually a safety issue if someone is following you closely including 18 wheelers.
26 MPG is the stated highway mileage on the window sticker so I'm happy to see it's close to what I've been getting.
I have the Wildpeaks and with 15K miles on them. They are wearing well. Going thru Vegas and Mesquite the temperature was about 110 degrees. I set the tire pressure to 33 PSI as recommended. It rose as high as 41 PSI with the heat thru Vegas.
End of report.
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