No probs, she drinks 87, ~5k on on clock

[940RHO]

Just wanted to chime in for everyone as we live in a forum world full of sob stories and people pissing all over the trucks that we choose to drive.

I’m right at 5K on the clock just shy of two months in and she has been a flawless drive.

For context, I round-trip 165 to 200 miles five days a week predominantly highway with a slight mix use of farm to market and gravel roads.

Aside from needing to take her in for an oil change and the TSB for the slight pull to the right this truck is a solid as they come. I came out of a model year 23 801 a raptor in avalanche.

Just wanted to share my experience because I’m seeing halfway decent mileage and I’ve put 87 octane in this truck 80 to 90% of the time if I’m being honest with everyone.

No, I am not doing hard launches or highway pulls as I have a G80 M3 for that but just wanted to provide a positive experience for anyone who is sitting on the fence on whether to buy this bad ass rig or not.

When comparing to the Raptor, the interior is far less plastic key in this motor screams up top and pulls like a freight train.

 

[940RHO]

Arguably most importantly

 

[Scottie2Hottie]

No noticeable hiccups on 87? Figured you may have a misfire or two. That’s encouraging to see that MPG.

 

[IronMan]

I put my first tank (3rd one total) of unleaded 88 (e15) in and haven't had any issues with it. Gas milage running about 12 but this tank has been mostly city driving and driving it hard.

 

[BilletRHO]

Just wanted to chime in for everyone as we live in a forum world full of sob stories and people pissing all over the trucks that we choose to drive.

I’m right at 5K on the clock just shy of two months in and she has been a flawless drive.

For context, I round-trip 165 to 200 miles five days a week predominantly highway with a slight mix use of farm to market and gravel roads.

Aside from needing to take her in for an oil change and the TSB for the slight pull to the right this truck is a solid as they come. I came out of a model year 23 801 a raptor in avalanche.

Just wanted to share my experience because I’m seeing halfway decent mileage and I’ve put 87 octane in this truck 80 to 90% of the time if I’m being honest with everyone.

No, I am not doing hard launches or highway pulls as I have a G80 M3 for that but just wanted to provide a positive experience for anyone who is sitting on the fence on whether to buy this bad ass rig or not.

When comparing to the Raptor, the interior is far less plastic key in this motor screams up top and pulls like a freight train.

Can you tell much power loss going from 87 to 91? Or throttle response?

 

[940RHO]

@BilletRHO @Scottie2Hottie
running fine as far as I can tell. Again please keep in mind I’m pounding pavement in interstate 90+ % of time and she lives at about 80 on cruise for about the same percentile.

I’m a jb4 guy on my m3 running a custom map on e35 mix with local 93, so I’m not here saying gas quality doesn’t matter… just for my intended use commuting in what I feel like is in style, she’s perfectly fine on the skim milk gas.

Wouldn’t be doing back to back WOT runs but seems perfectly fine for my intended use.

Probably will taper to 89 with the pending Texas heat, but I have local pump near work that has had 2.54 retail 87 and it’s been calling my name!

 

[Scottie2Hottie]

Well this supports @Ctech-Review video of him running a tank of 87 for testing purposes. He mentioned he didn’t experience any issues. I think I may give it a try when I have a highway trip. Modern ECUs are so good it doesn’t surprise me that 87 works if you are easy on the engine.

 

[RDRHINO]

Running 87 with no issues sounds promising....especially with 93 locally running $3.50-$3.80/gal on average lately. My commute is only 65 miles daily but in Dallas traffic I'm seeing numbers around 11.5-12.5 mpg. Only saw 13.4 on my road trip to Houston a couple weeks ago and that was cruising at 80mph on I-45. Pretty disappointing for $110 in fuel one way, especially considering I let the truck drive itself at least 75% of the trip.

 

[GregM]

Running 87 with no issues sounds promising....especially with 93 locally running $3.50-$3.80/gal on average lately. My commute is only 65 miles daily but in Dallas traffic I'm seeing numbers around 11.5-12.5 mpg. Only saw 13.4 on my road trip to Houston a couple weeks ago and that was cruising at 80mph on I-45. Pretty disappointing for $110 in fuel one way, especially considering I let the truck drive itself at least 75% of the trip.

$3.80 sounds great, lol. 93 in my area is $4.30 on the low end. But for the $12-$15 savings per tank I'm not risking it I'll pay the extra $0.40/gallon and stick with 93. My kids play club softball and our travel season starts next week so maybe I'll regret that soon when I'm driving an ungodly amount of miles every weekend!

 

[940RHO]

Running 87 with no issues sounds promising....especially with 93 locally running $3.50-$3.80/gal on average lately. My commute is only 65 miles daily but in Dallas traffic I'm seeing numbers around 11.5-12.5 mpg. Only saw 13.4 on my road trip to Houston a couple weeks ago and that was cruising at 80mph on I-45. Pretty disappointing for $110 in fuel one way, especially considering I let the truck drive itself at least 75% of the trip.

Just pulled into Fate / Royse city area and 2.47 87 is calling my name on my way home tonight!

 

[rhinonow]

$3.80 sounds great, lol. 93 in my area is $4.30 on the low end. But for the $12-$15 savings per tank I'm not risking it I'll pay the extra $0.40/gallon and stick with 93. My kids play club softball and our travel season starts next week so maybe I'll regret that soon when I'm driving an ungodly amount of miles every weekend!

i’m paying close to and sometimes over $5.00 for 91

 

[Boostedtoy]

Anxious for the ECU to be cracked and we can get a flex fuel setup on it.

 

[eltaco]

FWIW, the Hemi had a suggested 89 and I ran 87 for 100k miles without troubles.

I think the verbiage is different on RHO and it’s more than a suggestion for 91… but I’ll have to go check. Also, I thought there was a video or interview with a Ram engineer who said you can run lower without risk of damage. The only downside would be slightly lower performance, but sensors would adjust accordingly.

 

[940RHO]

FWIW, the Hemi had a suggested 89 and I ran 87 for 100k miles without troubles.

I think the verbiage is different on RHO and it’s more than a suggestion for 91… but I’ll have to go check. Also, I thought there was a video or interview with a Ram engineer who said you can run lower without risk of damage. The only downside would be slightly lower performance, but sensors would adjust accordingly.

I saw that clip as well. All modern day ECU's will simply pull timing as needed so as long as I'm not planning to take the truck to TX2K or a drag and brag I honestly haven't been worried at all!

 

[Dcchris311]

Im getting ready to fuel up, im going to try 87oct and datalog the timing via Torque and I'll do the same with 93oct and compare them.

 

[GregM]

i’m paying close to and sometimes over $5.00 for 91

Ouch. Must be CA. I'm in WA and we're trying to become the new California it feels like, just without the nice weather.

 

[RDRHINO]

I might try 87 on my next fill up just to see if there's a big difference in performance. I have yet to completely empty my tank so it will be my first full fill-up, too.

 

[eltaco]

Just filled up with 91 again. For me, premium is 20% higher cost than 87. I put on about 20k mi/yr, which at today’s prices would be about $800 extra/yr for premium.

I’ll probably give 87 a go next time.

 

[RDRHINO]

Just filled up with 91 again. For me, premium is 20% higher cost than 87. I put on about 20k mi/yr, which at today’s prices would be about $800 extra/yr for premium.

I’ll probably give 87 a go next time.

It's extremely hard to find 91 here in North Texas. Usually 87, 89 & 93, which is on average about $.60/gal more expensive. And of course that doesn't sound like a lot but on a full 33-gal tank fill-up that's just under $20, easily pushing the total to over $100/fill. So far my most expensive fill-up has been $109 and that was for 28 gal IIRC

 

[MattH89]

It's extremely hard to find 91 here in North Texas. Usually 87, 89 & 93, which is on average about $.60/gal more expensive. And of course that doesn't sound like a lot but on a full 33-gal tank fill-up that's just under $20, easily pushing the total to over $100/fill. So far my most expensive fill-up has been $109 and that was for 28 gal IIRC

We have some stations here in MI that shut off at $100. I hit it almost every time.

The business plan of "stop consumers from giving you more money" evokes immeasurable rage inside me.