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[QUOTE=waterdog101;509458]Geo, you asked me to post pictures of my new to me ride, if this works here are a couple pictures. one of the outside, inside and the current mileage.[/QUOTE]
Man that is one of the better looking trucks I have seen on the road. Very nice!!!!
Yes very nice! I like the white seems to hide dirt better! My black truck looks real nice when she's clean but one mud puddle and it's over.Chuck
Slow it down to 65 or 70 and I'll bet you'll see a big difference in mpg. You can stay in the slow lane with all of us gray haired drivers.:D
[QUOTE=waterdog101;509458]Geo, you asked me to post pictures of my new to me ride, if this works here are a couple pictures. one of the outside, inside and the current mileage.[/QUOTE]
Man, that is sweet.
I want it :)
[QUOTE=Chubminnow;509329]Bob's rig is cool....and that Van he pulls it with seems to do a very good job.
As for trucks...I'm glad someone out there can afford to go out and buy new. I'm still driving my 97 Chevy 4x4....it's got a 5.7 with about 150K on it...but still looks great. And quite honestly I have no intentions of ever driving another truck anytime soon....it will be years down the road before I drive something else. Heck....I even have rust free doors sitting in the garage from a 98 model that I will put on this truck whenever the old one's either rust or fall off.[/QUOTE]
Well Chub, I think I may be the only person on this thread who mentioned buying new trucks, so I guess you may have been talking about me. That's okay, I didn't spend a dime of your money. My husband deserved that new truck and he earned the right to have it. He had been driving "Miss Dolly," a 27 year old Mercury Cougar that was one of the first new cars I ever bought. The old girl's tail was dragging and he had a good offer to sell it to a friend for his son's first car.
My personal vehicle is a 2001 Jeep Grand Cherokee Laredo that I bought new. It has exactly 59,441 miles on it and still looks new. Neither of the vehicles came with a payment book and that is why I am blessed to pay cash for whatever I buy. I'm not one of those people who has to buy a new car ever 2-3 years just because I have friends who do.
[QUOTE=waterdog101;509479]thanks Bob, I drove it to knoxville today, when I first bought it, the little computer window said it was getting 13.5 mpg and I set the cruise control on 75 and the computer kept creeping up a digit at a time. and when I got back home it read 14.4 don't look like it will get as good of mileage as most of these guys that posted their results on here, but I can live with 14mpg.[/QUOTE]
Hey man, check that air filter, cause 5.4'ws are sensitive to mix. Each time I swap in a new, about once a year, the mileage creeps up some. And, run the tire at the highes recommended pressure for the tire, not what the sticker says on the door column. My van says 41 psi front and back, and my Michelins allow up to 50 PSI max, cold pressure, so I run them all at 45-47, vs the sticker 41. Handles better, and mileage again creeps up some.
Try reseting that mpg guage. Then take it on a good long drive, remember it's average what's in its data bank.
for the record, I don't give a crabs butt what year a truck is. If I just bought it, it's NEW to me.
Ya know, like 50 year old strange. :cool: