2005 frontier fuel economy question - Page 3

NISMO311 · Nov 26th, 2005, 09:40 AM

I have toyo mudders on my truck. 285/75/16 and my last two tanks were roughly 11-13mph. I dont quite understand what the problem is. Its pissing me off though. I knew the tires would hurt a little but before I was around 15-17mpg. I also just installed my k&n intake and that doesnt seem to be helping matters.

06 nismo auto

mainerunr · Nov 26th, 2005, 03:56 PM

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Originally Posted by 05 NISMO 4X4

Alas, this is why I commented on the exception to the manual transmission equiped models in my last comment! The manual seems to make quite a bit of difference! You are getting some great mileage, and if I recall correctly, you do have the 4X4 correct?

Yup, I've got a 4x4. I 'only' averaged 19.6mpg on the trip up here this weekend, tailgate down, crap in the back and about 1/6th of the miles in 4wd.

I'm certainly not going to argue that the mileage of this truck is bad. Not sure what I'll get on this tank as its been mostly in town, in 4wd and I've been playing in the back field (6-8" of snow)

I'm still guessing I'll be over 17mpg since 'in town' up here is a few stop signs and 6-8 mile trips (plus idling at the border crossings for a couple minutes each way...and I've crossed quite a few times). So far, 200 miles on just over half a tank when I normally get 220-230 on the first half (and much less on the second 'half')