Towing with new 6.4L

[LeRamona]

My Hemi gets low 8's towing our 5k TT up and down the I-5 corridor at 70-75MPH. Just let her eat.

When we go camping, we never go over 65-70. We can't forget we are towing a barn behind us and things can happen that may be worse at higher speeds. I prefer to leisurely get there. I'm retired. I don't have to be home by certain hour.

 

[Davidbt]

My Hemi gets low 8's towing our 5k TT up and down the I-5 corridor at 70-75MPH. Just let her eat.

In Komiefornia? When we have to come back into that state pulling our travel trailer, I keep it at 65 or less. Which is the speed we generally do while pulling the travel trailer.

 

[Gren71]

whenever I get a new vehicle I hand calculate the first three fill-ups and compare them to the vehicle's displayed mpg. I have found on all my vehicles that the readout is quite accurate.

As you can see..theres a lot of folks who absolutely hate the dash reading. Like you I’ve always found the reading to be so close that it’s not worth worrying about it. I’ve had the same thing between my Wrangler, my gladiator, my 1500, and now my 2500. On all of them the dash calculation is so close it’s just not worth worrying about the the minor difference if any. Everyone has their thing and I’ve noticed over the years that some people are very particular about it… And I’m just not that worried about going to the second or third position after the decimal. I hated the whole “smiles per gallon” thing in the Jeep community but I’m starting to see that mentality.

 

[AH64ID]

As you can see..theres a lot of folks who absolutely hate the dash reading. Like you I’ve always found the reading to be so close that it’s not worth worrying about it. I’ve had the same thing between my Wrangler, my gladiator, my 1500, and now my 2500. On all of them the dash calculation is so close it’s just not worth worrying about the the minor difference if any. Everyone has their thing and I’ve noticed over the years that some people are very particular about it… And I’m just not that worried about going to the second or third position after the decimal. I hated the whole “smiles per gallon” thing in the Jeep community but I’m starting to see that mentality.

Hate is a pretty strong word, I personally like and use it... I just don't trust it with certainty, it's a tool.

The wife's Gladiator is like just about every other rig (to include rental wranglers that we've put thousands of miles on (the 2.0's seem to be the most accurate)), sometimes it's good and sometimes it's not. She doesn't ever hand calc it, but I do whenever I fill it up. I've seen it more than 15% off and also within 5%. Nothing I would call minor, but maybe that's where the difference lies in just using the lie-o-meter.

 

[jetrinka]

When we go camping, we never go over 65-70. We can't forget we are towing a barn behind us and things can happen that may be worse at higher speeds. I prefer to leisurely get there. I'm retired. I don't have to be home by certain hour.

In Komiefornia? When we have to come back into that state pulling our travel trailer, I keep it at 65 or less. Which is the speed we generally do while pulling the travel trailer.

Personally I just don’t care. The truck isn’t going to pass a gas station regardless so I just keep on plugging down the highway. I usually have 10 gallons of gas in the bed for the twin Honda generators that I could use in a pinch.

It’s a large gas truck. Towing a load. It’s gonna rev and it’s gonna eat. It was designed to do both so you might as well let it.