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I just bought a 2005 SE and i'm getting 22/23 mpg mixed highway and city. I have gotten as much as 24 and as little as 21 depending on how I'm diving that day. I have a v6 engine and can not be any happier with my truck. The truck only had 18,000 miles on it when I bought it.
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I was getting the same averages for mpg. Around 13.5 city, and around 19 highway, which i tested from driving from New Jersey up through New England on I95. Part of it was where I purchased gas. I got better results from "name brand" gas stations, and less mileage from "ma and pa" corner stores for whatever reason. So I added and CAI and JBA headers/exhaust and brought my avg. mpg city to 17.5 and highway to 22. Rather pay the money to performance parts than the oil companies.
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ok new to the forum. But I live in Canada so maybe I can clear some
things up here. Common questions as to "warming up the truck before
driving". The idleing is the on ly reason that mpg drop in winter. The
truck will get equal mpg once it reaches operating temp in all seasons.
Colder (denser) air does afford more power, that's why farmers preferto
wait till dusk to work. Two schools of thought here; 1)cold,dense air
requires more fuel to even ratio out, 2) cold air improves mpg and power,
thus cai.
I own '06 4x4 cc with a manual. I have 33,000kms and get 22-25 in city
coomute, and 23-27 mpg on highway fully loaded for camping. The
better highway mpg is due to the level loaded bed and the cruising and
that sweet sixth gear!. It is a fine balance though because headwinds will
drive my mpg down to 16mpg.
auto trans will warm up marginally without driving because of the tc and
general vortex flow. You could always do a tc stall test and get it to max
temp (300F) in less than a minute if you were really concerned. Face it,
warm or not, you have to put into gear eventually, might as well be when
the engine is warm aand ready to go! Cabin heat is a sign of engine heat.
Thanks to your t-stat, your engine cooling system won't open until you
are at operating temp anyways. That means that the temp you get in the
cab is direcdt form the engine. Hooray for creature comforts!
Didn't plug it in a t all last winter and it started like a hot damn in -30 C
w/o synthetic oil. Anyone south of me will be fine.
Hope this helps a little.
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Just forgot one very important detail, my truck also runs the 4.0 V6. I too,
love it to death! Gotta love the locker!
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I have A 4.0 two wheel drive. I have a kand N filter. I also get a average of 22.5 mpg. half hwy and half city. i have a few tricks for gas mileage. let me know if want to hear them
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let's hear em. we'll all share and grow together. Every little bit helps. Besides, that's the whole reason we all didn't buy the biggest v8 we could get our hands on isn't it? If I didn't care I would have bought the Dodge Ram 1500 Power Wagon. Now that's a sweet machine! Please share your tips and tricks.
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I just bought a new Frontier with the V-6 and auto trans. I am curious as to what octane level of gas all of you use. I notice in the owner's manual that 92 octane (hi-test) is recommended. I'd appreciate any views or thoughts on this, please.
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87 is fine for most applications, to get full HP the 92/93 is required. Therefore general driving = 87; heavy loads or drag racing = 93
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yup, i agree. my manual actually recommends the 87 octane.....until I go FI!!!!!!
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I have a 2006 KC SE 4X4 and I get 20mpg town and 30 mpg highway (at 105 km/h). These are Canadian gallons though (20% bigger)
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