Recent content by tjb

I want to see the picture of his seven-foot Entune unit!

I started with like 18-19mpg. Recently I’ve been getting 21-24, same roads.

What part of the country?

And of us who’re getting 22ish mpg, how many drive with ect on by default. I do.

Are you going by the truck’s readout? Or your own figuring? I’m regularly getting 21-22mpg, about 80% highway.

Hate power seats. So slow. When I’m on a job site that doesn’t have a warm place to take break, the first thing I do after turning the engine off is slam my seat all the way back for optimal sammich-eating room. I don’t want to wait for the little servos to roll it back and forward multiple...

Right, but it doesn’t stay in the gear you selected. Even if you fairly gently accelerate, it’ll downshift. I mainly use it for going uphill. New Hampshire is very hilly. And an automatic tx shifting going uphill is hard on its parts. So I like to downshift before putting the load on the tx...

I hate it. Every other “tiptronic” style manual gear selection on an automatic I’ve used actually lets you choose your gear. It starts in whatever gear it was already in, and if you shift it stays in whatever gear you choose, even if you get on it. It will only downshift if you’re coming to a...