True MPG

[mgdg]

For all Canadian truck owners and maybe American too, if you have the trip and temperature computer on you TV that reads in mpg and L/100km check this out. After our last trip to Goderich Ont. this past weekend it showed 15.0 mpg on the computer when we arrived home. This converts to 15.6 L/100 kms. If you take that and divide it into 282.48 you end up with 18.10... mpg. We reset it just before we left Goderich and read it after we pulled into our driveway. I found this formula on a Transport Canada site a few years ago and wrote it down and threw it in my console. You can say, well a Canadian gallon is 4.5L and an American gallon is 3.8L but a Litre is a litre in all countries except the US where they are still using gallons. I like 18.0 better than 15.0 mpg. I get 800kms/500miles (129L/28 gal.Can)(129L/33.9gal. US)on a tank of gas now pulling. I drive no matter where in Canada or the US between 100-110km/hr-63-69mph. pulling.

[bigmurf]

If I understand this right this means the price of fuel will keep going up?

[mgdg]

Bigmurf I`ll go out on a limb here, but I predict gas/diesel will go down this winter and up again next summer!! Just a hunch. It is much cheaper for me to run in the US, If the US adopted the Litre yes it would be an excuse to raise the price of gas/diesel just like they did here in Can.

[1Happycamper]

Hi Mark. A Canadian gallon is 20% larger than a U.S.gallon. Just take your over head reading and add 20%. I find this way is easy for me. We were at Sauble Beach last month and my overhead showed 14.1 mpg U.S. or 16.9 mpg canadian. This is .5 to 1 mpg better than pulling my previous 28' Jayco 5th wheel.

Bill