No point using British gallons over here, they're 20% larger

All based on the pint if you care, our pint is 20oz Vs the American 16oz pint.

Anyway, you gotta convert the litres and kilometres correctly to compare to us in the US.

 

15.2L/100km

That's some damn god awful gas mileage!

 

Yeah, ~15.5 mpg.

 

Most of that is city, and I've only done one calculation so far with a 50L fill. I'm going to try to come close to empty next tank and see if I can get close to 20 MPG combined.

Either way - It's not great! Oh well.

 

So you're getting what you should, you shouldn't be surprised - it's a crap rating, especially for modern vehicles, but this isn't a modern engine and you'r in town, i doubt you'll get 20 combined, maybe mainly highway though.

 

Not entirely surprised just thought that if I babied it and didn't abuse it around town that I could notice a slight increase.

I'll just have to learn to live with it

 

Yeah i thought that about my '01 Mustang...... nope. Best you'll get is feeling like you're running it in too high of a gear when cruising, but it doesn't help much.
on a 50/50 highway/city commute, i got maybe 18 or so.

 

Hahaha my favorite subject, ranger MPG!


I am at about 14 mpg in suburban short distance driving with the 3.0.
Thinking about upstream oxygen sensors next as I have seen some material on-line where someone gained mpg changing those.

 

if you can log real time data you can monitor whether the upstream is switching back and forth correctly before spending money to replace them. Although, 75-100k is always a good guess for them to start failing.

 

That's a fair point, i've no idea if mine were ever changed, now at 146k - was Ford service most of it's life, but most just say serviced, so unless it's on the schedule, i doubt they've been done.

 

very few people will change them out without obvious symptoms due to cost.

 

Yeah, and overlooking/not understanding them. I wonder if i can easily check mine.

 

I've only tracked mileage once in my 2011 since I bought it a month ago. But I'm sitting at 16.7 with 100% city driving. Its the 4.0 4x4 Sport. Stock size tires (per the door label) and 3.73s. I was actually impressed with 16.7.

My '02 FX4 had the 4.10s and I threw on some 33x12.50s along with an SCT tuner to correct the speedo and allow for economy and power tunes. With the normal driving tune on 89 gas, I was getting 11mpg. Even with stock tires, I don't think she got over 14 (pic below...sold it a few years ago).

These things weren't designed for power or mpg. Hell, there's lil 4 cylinders out there now putting out well over 200hp and still getting over 30mpg, in a car anyway. As someone else already pointed out, our engines are old. That new 2020 Ranger should be much more economic and powerful as well, especially with the turbo diesel!

 

an.obd2 adapter and an app, and yes. I have one you can borrow if you want

 

Just got one, 3 o2 sensor readings, so assuming two up streams and a downstream.

Also curious what your MAF shows, mine is about 4 grams a second at hot idle.

 

The o2's look normal. Switching quickly with no signs one is lagging behind the other.

As for MAF, I don't know. I haven't logged the one on this truck. I tend to log in maf voltage though, its easier to decipher.
I need to figure out how to use my SCT software to log my ranger

 

huh looks too complicated for me. It would take a really honest shop to be willing to be test the sensor output before they sell you a new one!

 

Speaking of mileage, I fueled up again today. 19.4 mpg, pretty happy. That's my best tank.

 

Nice.

I don't know if i'll ever get a real tank reading on mine as it's not a daily, or even regular. Curious to see the next refill MPG though.

 

My maiden voyage was 700 miles of highway mileage.

Kept it under 65 mph on the way up.....60 miles of it to move some refrigerators (tried my 4WD LOW too!)...did the 70-75 on the way down.

Saw 20.20 mpg. I'll keep the next trip to <65 mph and there'll be no fridge moving.

We'll see.

 

Just turned 376000km on my '96 4 liter and had the first O2 sensor failure (due to dropping the Y pipe when I changed the O ring on the oil filter adapter). The other one is still clocking real nice - virtually identical to the new one. And I can still wring 31MPG (British/canadian) out of it on 30Km round trip from Waterloo to YKF - and there are a few pretty nice hills in Bridgeport and Breslau. 2 down and one up on the way out, 1 down and 2 up on the way home. EbyCrest and Victoria street pretty much cancel each other out, Total altitude difference is only about 11 meters (down on the way out, up on the way back) but likely well over 70 meters from highest to lowest. 3.55 gears, manual trans, 235/70 16 tires with corrected speedo (black gear) verified with GPS. Dead stock other than the wheels - with drop-in bedliner and fiberglass cap