would a truck cap give me better mpg than nothing?
#2
I have read and heard that a shell or cover would help. Here's a link to another discussion on it.
http://ecomodder.com/forum/showthrea...elp-11807.html
http://ecomodder.com/forum/showthrea...elp-11807.html
#4
Senior Member
The Aerolid gets a 15% increase in mpg.
It can be raised and driven in a camper shell configuration too. Gas mileage does go back down when it is driven raised up. Lower in back into the aero position, you go back to 22-23 mpg on the freeway, 18.5 combined.
#6
December 2009 TOTM!
But I have heard caps or covers can give you maybe 1mpg? But.. that's just what people have said.
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#8
Bleeds Ford Blue
Out of the 5 different options we have:
- Open bed
- No tailgate/ turbo net
- Cap
- Soft tonneau
- Hard tonneau
#10
Senior Member
I have a cap, and honestly maybe only see a 1/2 mile per gallon with shell. I prefer the tonneau (hardshell) over the shell cap myself. I have both, but since this shell was on the truck when I bought it, and the snow came too soon to change to the tonneau. I'll drive with the shell till spring. Besides, its snowing or was, and the shell keeps everything so nice and dry, where with a tonneau, you get snow inside almost everytime you open it. Well, we'll see with the 4.6 in the spring how the mpg goes, tonneau vs shell.
In my 90 F150, 5.0 AT, with the tonneau, mpg went up over 2 mpg over the shell and 3 without anything on back.
In my 90 F150, 5.0 AT, with the tonneau, mpg went up over 2 mpg over the shell and 3 without anything on back.