Well I finally did it!

[RickDLance]

I finally broke down and bought the 1500 Duramax I have been wanting. Picked it up yesterday 662 miles from home with 51 miles on the odometer. The trans makes it seem pretty spunky. The engine will hit 4000 rpm no problem.

I made it home on one tank of fuel and averaged 29 MPG hand calculated.

I played around a little on the way home. I would run 10 miles at certain speeds and see what the readout was.
At 60 mpg it got 35.03 MPG
At 65 it got 33.2
at 70 it got 32.5
at 75 it got 25
and at 80 it got 24.8

They seem like they targeted 70 mph for the sweet spot.

All in all I like it so far. Time will tell.

 

[Bdsankey]

Glad to hear Rick! Keep us all updated on how you like it as the miles get put on.

 

[MarkBroviak]

Awesome buddy, congrats!!!

 

[slowlml]

Congrats rick! Hope it does everything you want it to. Mpg seems pretty good. You have any pictures of it?

 

[Hambone]

Congrats
Are some things going to rattle off down the road or is this just a family ride?

 

[RickDLance]

Probably just drive it.;-)

 

[TheBac]

That looks like a really nice truck, Rick. Congrats.

 

[slowlml]

Man thats a good looking truck. Ive had alot of red vehicles and got away from them the last 10 years. But im really starting to want another lol

 

[SmokeShow]

That looks really nice, Rick!

 

[56taskforce]

Good looking truck Rick!!!
Curious, six months in are you still just driving it or did things begin to Rattle off???

 

[RickDLance]

I'm just driving it. I've done some towing and so far I'm pretty impressed. Seats took some getting used to and the engine shutting off at a stop light sucks!

 

[56taskforce]

I didn't realize they had that stupid start stop feature, that does suck.
I drove a rental car for a couple months a while back, it had that feature. On the hills down town Seattle I felt like I was going to end up in the grill of the car behind me.
It wouldn't start till you took your foot off the brake and even though it started immediately the delay in the transmission would allow it to roll back about 3 feet.