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Old 08-12-2014, 08:45 PM
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Can anyone explain having 127 mile difference at two fill ups in the same day? Have 6k on the truck. What is your PMT?

















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First of all, the first image at 25.2 is totally bogus. What did you do, fill up and coast down the hill with a tailwind and fill up again? It just doesn't work that way. You fill up reset the computer and drive a reasonable number of miles like at least a couple of hundred. Then you fill up again and reset the computer. It is a computer not the real world. I never believe what the display tells me. You fill up and watch the gauge not the computer. Sometimes the brain is better than a digital display.
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I filled up and drove about 50 miles. Shouldn't that be realistic if you stay on cruise control for 50 miles? How much does that play into what your range displays?
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No, 50 miles is bogus. Somebody help out here.
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I'm not sure about how the truck calculates miles to empty...mine varies quite a bit at fill ups, but is more accurate at miles to empty when the tank is close to being empty.

That said, my 2013 FX2 ecoboost can only get 25.5 with the cruise control set at 35mph. At 60 mph I get 18.5 mpg. What rear end gear ratio do you have?
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Ignore miles to empty until you are almost out of gas. It is a fictional number based on a prediction/guess of your future gas mileage.

You should compare actual MPG numbers over long trips to average out inconsistencies like long downhill stretches and lots of traffic lights.

What's different between your picture and mine?



hint: look at the fuel gauge

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Originally Posted by Shane361
Can anyone explain having 127 mile difference at two fill ups in the same day? Have 6k on the truck. What is your PMT?
Your DTE runs on it's own internal mpg that you cannot view that also had a rolling 800mile average (I think could be less or 800km) meaning every 800 miles it'll give you a more recently accurate DTE.
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Thanks guys
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Originally Posted by Shane361
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Big mpg difference between that and my 3.73 (max tow pkg)!


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