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Posted by nkisamo1 on 05-11-2011 08:17 PM:

2006 F250 Super Duty 5.4 L Gas 14mpg highway/12mpgcity

Looking at trading it in on the new 2011 Superduty. They are claiming the 6.2L Gas get 21 highway and the 6.8 L new Diesel is claiming to get 36 mpg highway

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Posted by mccracken on 05-11-2011 08:20 PM:

well i drive a 2001 dodge ram so anyone knows that if you care bout gas mileage you dont buy one...9mpg pulling,emepty,loaded,highway or city it dont matter one way or the other...work truck is a 11 f 250 with the 6.2 gaser city your looking around 13 and on the interstate 17 to 18 mpg

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Posted by CLJohnson on 05-11-2011 08:35 PM:

03 Ford Ranger edge 2 wheel drive extended cab small 4 cylinder in it i get MAYBE 17 driving the steep curvy mountain roads where I live, pretty sure I would get better mileage with the bigger 4 cylinder, F150 v8 gets around 15 here 18-20 highway 4 door.

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Posted by RedMan on 05-11-2011 09:38 PM:

97 tacoma 4x4 5 speed with 220K+ and it gets 26-27 mpg. Have an 04 silverado ext cab 4wd that averages about 15 round town and closer to the 18-19 mark highway. First time we went to myrtle beach my first tank got 22mpg and the first hr of the trip was 2 lane straight as a well rope I was loving it but have yet to see 20+ since. Thats the reason it only has 60 something thousand on it and I bought it new in August of '04. Have made 5 trips to the beach and have yet to beat that first tank but what the heck, going to challenge it again in about 5 weeks.

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Posted by RatDog on 05-11-2011 09:47 PM:

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Originally posted by mccracken
well i drive a 2001 dodge ram so anyone knows that if you care bout gas mileage you dont buy one...9mpg pulling,emepty,loaded,highway or city it dont matter one way or the other...work truck is a 11 f 250 with the 6.2 gaser city your looking around 13 and on the interstate 17 to 18 mpg


same here, but i get 12 woopeee

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Posted by Lee Stocking on 05-11-2011 10:12 PM:

My 97 Chevy gets 18 on the open road and 14 around hunting but ITS PAID FOR....man that feels good to say. Larry does your wife spread the wealth? I sure could use a new truck Having a 500 a month or more truck payment makes me cringe all over. Paying cash is nearly impossible for most of us.

Manufacturing costs are rising at an alarming rate. Mostly material cost, and labor. You can get ready for major increases in new autos within the next year or two.

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Posted by Christy on 05-11-2011 10:13 PM:

OURS IS A 2003 TOYOTA TACOMA 4WD QUAD CAB. GETS 21-24 AROUND TOWN. WHEN WE TOOK IT TO THE WORLD IN INDIANA IT GOT 26 ON THE HIGHWAY. IT HAS ALMOST 270,000 MILES ON IT.

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Posted by intellectualist on 05-11-2011 10:27 PM:

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Originally posted by Lee Stocking
How do all of you afford 15 to 30,000 dollar trucks? I cant get myself to do it.
I see folks all over my town that dont look like they can afford 2000 dollar trucks driving new ones around.
I drive paid for high mileage vehicles and get around fine.


I will tell you how they do it. Not all of them but 90% of them. It is called debt! It would scare you at the number of vehicles on the road that are 10 years old that people are carrying loans on! Not to mention newer ones. Now that I have said this, people will come out of the woodwork talking about how all of theirs is paid off!
I done that one time on a truck like we are talking about here. Still have it with nearly 200,000 miles on it. 98 F150 4x4 ext cab.
Best I can do is 16 hwy.
It has been a good one but it was the stupidest money mistake I ever made. Thank goodness it has been paid for years now but I will never do that again! Every month after about a year into it, it just made me sick to watch that money get sucked form the budget.

Posted by intellectualist on 05-11-2011 10:33 PM:

quote:
Originally posted by Briar
True that.....its called being smart. I can't think of a worst investment (and that is using the term very loosly) than a vehicle esp a high end pick up truck, but I am glad people buy them, it keeps the economy running.


Never a more true statement has ever been spoken!

Posted by intellectualist on 05-11-2011 10:45 PM:

quote:
Originally posted by intellectualist
I will tell you how they do it. Not all of them but 90% of them. It is called debt! It would scare you at the number of vehicles on the road that are 10 years old that people are carrying loans on!
I done that one time on a truck like we are talking about here. Still have it with nearly 200,000 miles on it. 98 F150 4x4 ext cab.
Best I can do is 16 hwy.
It has been a good one but it was the stupidest money mistake I ever made. Thank goodness it has been paid for for years now but I will never do that again! Every month after about a year into it, it just made me sick to watch that money get sucked form the budget.


Another thing I have found on these mileage estimates, alot of people do not know how to do it correctly. I have a friend who thinks he can just fill up, reset his tripometer, and at some indiscriminate point when his hand is near "E", see how many miles he has went and figure that is correct by the number of gallons his tank holds!
I can't convince him that he needs to run his tank really low, with the fuel light having been on for about 25 miles, then fill his tank as full as he can get it without running gas on the ground, reset tripometer, run that tank as low as the last one, see how many gallons it now held filled to capacity as previously done,devide number of gallons into miles traveled on tripometer, then get an accurate estimate!
If people do not do it this way, evan a gallon or two off either way will skew your numbers.
If you do it the way my friend does it, you may actually be getting 18 mpg instead of 20! Or possibly the other way around!

Posted by breezyoaks on 05-11-2011 11:24 PM:

MPG

2008 Toyota Tundra SR5........5.7 liter V-8......15-16mpg in town, 18.5mpg highway...................
I guess I could drive junk if I really wanted to, but I been there and done that over the years .......maybe will again too the way things are going......time will tell I guess........

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Posted by GA DAWG on 05-11-2011 11:32 PM:

I got a 06 ext cab tundra 4x4.. Sucks on gas milage only gets 14 to 15 around here and never over 17.. Its paid for by the way. With 65k on it..Also have a 98 tocoma PAID FOR.. 150k on it. Only gets 17 hunting out of it..
Thinking of swaping the tundra off for a 4 door tacoma which will be paid for to... Why would it matter to any of yall if we spend our money on trucks anyhow.. Our money.. We make it.. None of your business.

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Posted by mauser06 on 05-12-2011 12:04 AM:

i drive a 2009 Ranger ext cab, 4wd 4.0 6cyl...i get 17-21 around town depending on how i drive, if im hunting or trapping and off roading and 4wd in the winter time etc...

highway i get 21-23.5 depending on terrain and thats always with about a full load in the bed when im moving (i move atleast twice a year..lol)



i know a guy with a new f150 that said he got the smallest v8 in it and he swears he gets 23-24mpg around town...


the ford ecoboost was supposed to give the power but not drink the gas...but, reviews seem pretty mixed so far...power, YES..gas mileage ive seen between 16 and 20 something...

im considering a new truck this summer or next...yes, i carry a loan...but, rather than pay it off and drive it till its worth nothing, i think trading it n this summer or next while my loan is less than they will give me, will be the smartest move...helps that i got the Ranger off the lot 5k or so less than the sticker and put 3k down..so my loan was never super high..

ive drove an old vehicle for a while...i rather pay a loan payment every month than get nickle and dimed with repairs...

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Posted by intellectualist on 05-12-2011 12:09 AM:

quote:
Originally posted by GA DAWG
I got a 06 ext cab tundra 4x4.. Sucks on gas milage only gets 14 to 15 around here and never over 17.. Its paid for by the way. With 65k on it..Also have a 98 tocoma PAID FOR.. 150k on it. Only gets 17 hunting out of it..
Thinking of swaping the tundra off for a 4 door tacoma which will be paid for to... Why would it matter to any of yall if we spend our money on trucks anyhow.. Our money.. We make it.. None of your business.


It does not matter to me how you spend your money. The guy was just wondering how people done it and I told him. Nobody is putting you down for it! I have been guilty of it too until I learned better. I am just thankful it was sooner instead of later!
I am merely talking about myself, not you. I am just saying for me, vehicles are a very poor investment and I am glad I learned my lesson!

Well, not just me. Vehicles have been proven time and time again to be a very poor investment, regardless of who you are.

Posted by intellectualist on 05-12-2011 12:16 AM:

quote:
Originally posted by mauser06
i drive a 2009 Ranger ext cab, 4wd 4.0 6cyl...i get 17-21 around town depending on how i drive, if im hunting or trapping and off roading and 4wd in the winter time etc...

highway i get 21-23.5 depending on terrain and thats always with about a full load in the bed when im moving (i move atleast twice a year..lol)



i know a guy with a new f150 that said he got the smallest v8 in it and he swears he gets 23-24mpg around town...


the ford ecoboost was supposed to give the power but not drink the gas...but, reviews seem pretty mixed so far...power, YES..gas mileage ive seen between 16 and 20 something...

im considering a new truck this summer or next...yes, i carry a loan...but, rather than pay it off and drive it till its worth nothing, i think trading it n this summer or next while my loan is less than they will give me, will be the smartest move...helps that i got the Ranger off the lot 5k or so less than the sticker and put 3k down..so my loan was never super high..

ive drove an old vehicle for a while...i rather pay a loan payment every month than get nickle and dimed with repairs...


Driving them until they are worth nothing is the ONLY way you ever get the best bang for your buck out of an automobile. It is still a loosing proposition even then.
As far as driving junk or nickel and diming me to death, I have four vehicles with a total of about 615,000 miles on them. There is not a one of these vehicles I would mind heading out towards California in and I have no expectation that either would break down. Now, my truck would eat me alive in fuel and my Olds may not be very comfy, but I am certain it would get me there and back.
I guarantee you that your loan payments over the last five years were quadruple (probably even more but I will give you the benefit of the doubt) what my nickel and dime repairs were!

Actually, if your loan payment was only $100 a month over the last five years you would be in over double what my nickel and dime repairs were!

Posted by truly on 05-12-2011 12:24 AM:

I have a 2003 Silverado Duramax Diesel 4 door 4wd that gets 20.3 mpg. It got about 18 until I hit 100,000 miles, then it kept creeping up. The truck has 213,000 miles on it now. If I averaged 20 mpg over its lifetime and diesel averages $4 that means I have run $42,500 of fuel through it. I can't even imagine if I had the same truck in gas getting 8-10 mpg!
BTW- the truck is for sale now, I mostly drive a Prius to hunt out of, and will pick up another smaller truck for when I really need a truck. Primary reason for getting rid of it is how hard it is to fit in my urban garage!

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Posted by intellectualist on 05-12-2011 12:29 AM:

quote:
Originally posted by truly
I have a 2003 Silverado Duramax Diesel 4 door 4wd that gets 20.3 mpg. It got about 18 until I hit 100,000 miles, then it kept creeping up. The truck has 213,000 miles on it now. If I averaged 20 mpg over its lifetime and diesel averages $4 that means I have run $42,500 of fuel through it. I can't even imagine if I had the same truck in gas getting 8-10 mpg!
BTW- the truck is for sale now, I mostly drive a Prius to hunt out of, and will pick up another smaller truck for when I really need a truck. Primary reason for getting rid of it is how hard it is to fit in my urban garage!


42,500! That is scary isnt it! That is another thing we often do not consider about these trucks is operating cost. I know when I was young and bought mine I didnt! My truck costs almost double to put tires on than my Olds! Not to mention I get several more thousand miles out of tires on my Olds!

Posted by RedMan on 05-12-2011 12:54 AM:

Well my yota was cash on the barrel head same with my silverado (the disclaimer on the silverado is that yes I bought it new and yes I paid cash for it and yes I made a very handsome profit on our first house we sold because we built a new one on the family farm) and we are making monthly payments on my wifes honda crv. That loan came off a cd at the bank and I pay 1% more than the cd was making to start with so at best the bank makes a whopping $200+/- off us and if we both lose our jobs then the cd pays for it. And even then it will have been paid off in about 2.5 yrs and we got no set monthly statement or past due date to worry with. Just make sure the interest is kept up and we pay how ever much or however little we want when we want.

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Posted by hillbilly56 on 05-12-2011 12:59 AM:

quote:
Originally posted by nkisamo1
2006 F250 Super Duty 5.4 L Gas 14mpg highway/12mpgcity

Looking at trading it in on the new 2011 Superduty. They are claiming the 6.2L Gas get 21 highway and the 6.8 L new Diesel is claiming to get 36 mpg highway
i had a 05 ford f150 with the 5.4 it was super cab i just ran it around town never paid ant atteion to milage my boy borroed it pulled a 2 horse trailer loaded with furniture to va got 9 miles to the gal he figured it both ways got the same i ask my buddy that is a mecanic at ford garge said thats about right said the best you gonna get if you watch how you drive 11 to 12 miles per gal

Posted by intellectualist on 05-12-2011 01:10 AM:

quote:
Originally posted by RedMan
Well my yota was cash on the barrel head same with my silverado (the disclaimer on the silverado is that yes I bought it new and yes I paid cash for it and yes I made a very handsome profit on our first house we sold because we built a new one on the family farm) and we are making monthly payments on my wifes honda crv. That loan came off a cd at the bank and I pay 1% more than the cd was making to start with so at best the bank makes a whopping $200+/- off us and if we both lose our jobs then the cd pays for it. And even then it will have been paid off in about 2.5 yrs and we got no set monthly statement or past due date to worry with. Just make sure the interest is kept up and we pay how ever much or however little we want when we want.


Congratulations. Your not doing as bad as some folks. Only caveat I would like to mention is that a CD is a horrible place to invest money unless your life can't handle market fluctuations. Hence the reason that the loan is about 1% more than the CD is making because you received a great interest rate on the loan.
Comparing the rates, imagine how much you are loosing if you had invested that money in a mutual fund with a solid 10-11 % earnings.
When you factor in 4% inflation, CDs actually gain no value typically!

Posted by GA DAWG on 05-12-2011 01:33 AM:

What mutual funds pay that nowdays??

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Posted by intellectualist on 05-12-2011 01:42 AM:

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Originally posted by GA DAWG
What mutual funds pay that nowdays??


You have to look for funds that have at least a 10 year track record. If I could just answer your question accurately in the same general way you are asking it, I would be a billionaire by now!
The stock market, since its inception, has gained about 12% overall. This is accounting for its ups and downs.
My investments as of two weeks ago had gained just over 9% since JAN.1. When I looked a couple of days ago, it was back down to around 7.5% due to the dip last week.
The best advice I can give is look at the track record for funds over 10 years old, diversify, and plan on leaving it there for several years!
This is straight out of Dave Ramsey's mouth, not mine! But I can attest that it has worked well for me!

Posted by GA DAWG on 05-12-2011 01:53 AM:

I've lost some but am in high risk funds. I thought about saying to heck with it but believe I will leave what I have in high risk and do something else in more stable stuff.

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Posted by jason554 on 05-12-2011 02:01 AM:

Re: Re: truck

[QUOTE]Originally posted by baby_gaboo
How can you claim to get 28MPG on the highway and 24MPG city when 4 cyclinder, 5 speed trucks and most cars don't even pull those numbers. I assume you meant 18 hwy, 14 city. [/QUOTE
I got a 2009 silverado with the 4.8 I only get 16

Posted by jason554 on 05-12-2011 02:09 AM:

quote:
Originally posted by intellectualist
Another thing I have found on these mileage estimates, alot of people do not know how to do it correctly. I have a friend who thinks he can just fill up, reset his tripometer, and at some indiscriminate point when his hand is near "E", see how many miles he has went and figure that is correct by the number of gallons his tank holds!
I can't convince him that he needs to run his tank really low, with the fuel light having been on for about 25 miles, then fill his tank as full as he can get it without running gas on the ground, reset tripometer, run that tank as low as the last one, see how many gallons it now held filled to capacity as previously done,devide number of gallons into miles traveled on tripometer, then get an accurate estimate!
If people do not do it this way, evan a gallon or two off either way will skew your numbers.
If you do it the way my friend does it, you may actually be getting 18 mpg instead of 20! Or possibly the other way around!

Better yet instead of running out of gas fill up set your tac run out most of the tank then fill up and divide the miles by the gallons Lol
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