Yahoo Message Number: 84622 (http://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/Country-Coach-Owners/conversations/messages/84622)
What are Magna and Affinity owners with the Cat C13 getting for fuel mileage? What about the Cummins 600 ? Does towing a car in a trailer behind change the mileage at all ? Does winter blend diesel effect your mileage?
We just did a trip from Chicago to Denver fighting a fierce headwind and going 70mph and averaged 6.3.
Yahoo Message Number: 84623 (http://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/Country-Coach-Owners/conversations/messages/84623)
I average between 6.1 and 6.8 . We full time so are pretty much running at gvwr 52,000 plus a Honda element with kayaks on the roof. I usually set the cruise at 59 mph when I can.
Marc 05 affinity 6429
Yahoo Message Number: 84627 (http://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/Country-Coach-Owners/conversations/messages/84627)
I get about 7 mpg in our coach towing a crew cab half ton GMC.
Roger Steetman 2002 Affinity 6125
Yahoo Message Number: 84628 (http://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/Country-Coach-Owners/conversations/messages/84628)
Roger-Size of your coach and engine package would help. Thanks, Barrie Boas 94 Concept 40' 5111 Detroit 8V92TA 450 HP
Yahoo Message Number: 84630 (http://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/Country-Coach-Owners/conversations/messages/84630)
My last trip across the country (7,300 miles) resulted in about
6.7mpg with cruise usually set at 62mph. Silverleaf read 8.3, but it
also read substantially further than the 7,300 on the speedo. The silverleaf is off, but I'm told that's not uncommon.
Dave Glen
'06 Magna #6591
Yahoo Message Number: 84632 (http://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/Country-Coach-Owners/conversations/messages/84632)
Yahoo Message Number: 84633 (http://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/Country-Coach-Owners/conversations/messages/84633)
Eat your hearts out......'04 Inspire, 350 Cummins towing Ford Flex. 8.4 average over the past 35,000 miles. Actual, not Silverleaf although it is very close. Cruise at 58 and have removed rear flap.
George
'04 Inspire 51061
Yahoo Message Number: 84634 (http://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/Country-Coach-Owners/conversations/messages/84634)
We are jealous, George! Our 06 Inspire 40' long towing a Buick Enclave gets 7, and that's about the highest! We do drive a tad faster though and have also removed rear flap.
Thanks!
Mike and Mary
51784 Inspire
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Eat your hearts out......'04 Inspire, 350 Cummins towing Ford Flex. 8.4 average over the past 35,000 miles. Actual, not Silverleaf although it is very close. Cruise at 58 and have removed rear flap.
George
'04 Inspire 51061
Yahoo Message Number: 84635 (http://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/Country-Coach-Owners/conversations/messages/84635)
Mary,
Cat? 400HP? How fast?
George
Yahoo Message Number: 84636 (http://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/Country-Coach-Owners/conversations/messages/84636)
Cat 400 HP, 70 mph
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Mary,
Cat? 400HP? How fast?
George
Yahoo Message Number: 84637 (http://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/Country-Coach-Owners/conversations/messages/84637)
Any questions? I am a firm believer in cruise control. Also am painfully slow from standing starts. Then again, I'm 75 years old and not in a hurry to get anywhere.
George
Yahoo Message Number: 84638 (http://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/Country-Coach-Owners/conversations/messages/84638)
Looks to me as if driving in a more sane manner would be very helpful for us to gain some mpg. However, we are full time workers, and we usually have to get from point A to point B in a set amount of time. Looking forward though to the time when we can take it a lot easier! Thanks, George.
Mary and Mike
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Any questions? I am a firm believer in cruise control. Also am painfully slow from standing starts. Then again, I'm 75 years old and not in a hurry to get anywhere.
George
Yahoo Message Number: 84640 (http://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/Country-Coach-Owners/conversations/messages/84640)
On my trip to Oregon last year, we averaged right 7.9 getting there from El paso going up thru the central valley and then HWY 1`to I 5, and about 8.4 from Oregon down I 5 to the Bay Area across the Sierras, the 13 or 14 high passes in Nevada across Utah, through Colorado to Durango and home. Which proves replacing or repairing the charge air cooler can make quite a difference. We averaged over 9 from Durango to El Paso, but we dropped close to 3,000 ft over 492 miles. TWI 204 Intrigue 11731
Yahoo Message Number: 84641 (http://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/Country-Coach-Owners/conversations/messages/84641)
I average 7.05 mpg on the last 36,000 mile. I record each mile, gallons and where & when purchased on a excel spread sheet. 2005 Inspire 40', 400 CAT. tow a Saturn Vue. Starting 6th year as full timers.
Jock Vargo
2005 Inspire
51428
Yahoo Message Number: 84642 (http://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/Country-Coach-Owners/conversations/messages/84642)
Mary,
If you stop to think about it, 70 vs 58 is 12 MPH. Over an eight hour day, that amounts to under 100 miles. So you get there a little earleir and it cost an extra $10 to do it.
George
Yahoo Message Number: 84643 (http://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/Country-Coach-Owners/conversations/messages/84643)
George. I agree with you 100%. Perhaps it's a habit we have of hurrying along. I think a lot of folks here have it figured out to mosey along - if that means driving under 65 mph!!. We'd also love to take non-freeway roads because there is so much more to see. Thanks for your help! Would love to meet you and many others we feel as if we've gotten "to know" a little bit with the wonderful help and advice and information we've benefited from here.
Mary
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Mary,
If you stop to think about it, 70 vs 58 is 12 MPH. Over an eight hour day, that amounts to under 100 miles. So you get there a little earleir and it cost an extra $10 to do it.
George
Yahoo Message Number: 84645 (http://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/Country-Coach-Owners/conversations/messages/84645)
Mary,
Anytime, summer in Delaware, winter in Florida. Just give us a shout.
Happy travels.
George
Yahoo Message Number: 84647 (http://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/Country-Coach-Owners/conversations/messages/84647)
Dave Glen, I believe the Silverleaf gets its data from the Engine ECM. Do you have CAT or Cummins? On my boat I have CATs and the fuel flow data is rubbish compared to my friend who has Cummins. The fuel flow is based on a flow/power curve stored the ECM and is a calculated guess, not a proper flow and return calculation. On my Allure I have a Cummins and mpg works reasonably accurate.
Michael
2008 Allure 31683
Yahoo Message Number: 84648 (http://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/Country-Coach-Owners/conversations/messages/84648)
With my Betatron fuel phase analyzer I have averaged 13.6 MPG over th past 17000 miles.
Yahoo Message Number: 84650 (http://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/Country-Coach-Owners/conversations/messages/84650)
We have been cross country several times towing a Silverado shortbed, which is loaded to the gills. We stay prettry much at 7mpg
Tom
2005 Inspire 51177
C9
Yahoo Message Number: 84652 (http://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/Country-Coach-Owners/conversations/messages/84652)
Sorry.
42' C12 505
Usually driving 60 to 65 mph.
Roger Streetman
2002 Affinity 6125
Yahoo Message Number: 84653 (http://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/Country-Coach-Owners/conversations/messages/84653)
13.6 MPG ----not possible ! Typical post with nothing about coach, engine, name etc.
Ron Baran 09 Magna 7025
Yahoo Message Number: 84654 (http://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/Country-Coach-Owners/conversations/messages/84654)
Ron-I think its an April Fool at Xmas time. Barrie Boas 94 Concept 5111
Yahoo Message Number: 84655 (http://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/Country-Coach-Owners/conversations/messages/84655)
Maybe it's 13.6 KPG, which would be 8.5 MPG.
Lee
Yahoo Message Number: 84657 (http://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/Country-Coach-Owners/conversations/messages/84657)
45' 2006 Intrigue C13 tow F250 pickup with two motorcycles on the bed each weighing about 700 pounds 6 mpg is best I can get going 60 mph.
-Dennis Holmes
12055
Yahoo Message Number: 84658 (http://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/Country-Coach-Owners/conversations/messages/84658)
This last summer we drove from Las Vegas, NV to Junction City. Total miles was 1873. All kinds of highways. 2 and 4 lane plus Interstates 5 and 80. Used the Economy M ode on the Allison. Kept speed between 58 and 63.
We have a 2009 Inspire, 36 foot with the ISL 425 engine.(52176) We averaged between 7.8 and 8.5 MPG.. We do not tow. Calculations were manual. We do not have Silverleaf.
Have a great 2013!!!
Ed Wiseman
Country-Coach-Owners-fullfeatured@yahoogroups.com (Country-Coach-Owners-fullfeatured%40yahoogroups.com)
Yahoo Message Number: 84662 (http://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/Country-Coach-Owners/conversations/messages/84662)
Jump in with a question. So taking off the big mud flap lowers drag and helps with economy? We dont have to run to be legal? Thanks
Nathan Blackwell
1998 Allure
Yahoo Message Number: 84663 (http://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/Country-Coach-Owners/conversations/messages/84663)
Don't know what it does but it lowered my transmission temp and added .4 MPG to my Cummins.
George
'04 Inspire 51061
Yahoo Message Number: 84668 (http://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/Country-Coach-Owners/conversations/messages/84668)
Doesn't your coach kick up stones on to your toad without the flap? John 03 Allure 30951
Yahoo Message Number: 84669 (http://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/Country-Coach-Owners/conversations/messages/84669)
Nope, the flaps behind the rear wheels stop them. The flap was simply for advertising.
George
'04 Inspire 51061
Yahoo Message Number: 84670 (http://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/Country-Coach-Owners/conversations/messages/84670)
We did the same thing re removing the rear flap after reading about taking it off helping with the gas mileage.
Mary
06 Inspire 51784
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Nope, the flaps behind the rear wheels stop them. The flap was simply for advertising.
George
'04 Inspire 51061
Yahoo Message Number: 84671 (http://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/Country-Coach-Owners/conversations/messages/84671)
Adding to what George said, others have reported sometime the 'adevertisement flap' scrapes the ground and kicks up rocks. We have not removed ours yet, but I do know our toad has more small rocks and gravel at the bottom of the windshield then it ever had with the small Bounder. The Bounder had a grass Rock Guard skirt vs solid - so perhaps that made a difference.
Ours is coming off early in 2013.
Best to all,
Smitty
Yahoo Message Number: 84674 (http://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/Country-Coach-Owners/conversations/messages/84674)
Anyone in the Tucson AZ area have one they want to get rid of let me know, I may be interested. Mine has been off for two years and I can see no differance in the coach, except for easier access to the rear of the coach engine area. My Saturn lower radiator is getting beat up, so I put a foam noodle in the opening. That seemed to help, just have to remember to remove it.
Jack Allure40 30076 a classic
Yahoo Message Number: 84703 (http://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/Country-Coach-Owners/conversations/messages/84703)
All I can say, After 3 trips to AK. One with out the mud Flap. This trip i had rocks coming up and on to the car + getting all over the Eng. all the way inside the fan.
Done the same thing going WEST to East and East to West I-90 & I-10 South to FL. on I-95 in all these trips with it on and with out the Flap.
What i can see no more MPG with it off, I GET 7.3 MILES PER GAL.@1550 RPM 62/63 MPH @ 1750 RPM 69/70 MPH/6.5 MPH 2000 ALLURE # 30498/330 HP. CUMM.So i guest that all the RVs are not the same! THIS IS WHAT I KNOW! This is not to get any one up set! "HAPPY NEW YEAR" After the last trip with out the Flap i had to repaint the FRW part of the car.
The best to Y-all in 2013! DMG 2000 ALLURE 330 HP with Flap on.# 30498
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Yahoo Message Number: 84731 (http://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/Country-Coach-Owners/conversations/messages/84731)
I have this and it works well. It does let dust through.
http://protectatow.tripod.com/ (http://protectatow.tripod.com/)
Dave
aka Billy Byte (trusty hound)
2000 Allure #30443