Actual mpg?

[The Luke]

I stopped and looked at an 05 2500 Ram the other day. Reg cab, long bed, 4x4, hemi, 5 spd. Anybody have one? What do you get? Empty? Towing? Window sticker said 12/17. Everything online ranges from 8 all the way to some guy claiming 18 city.

 

[kyjari001]

I don't know about a ram but I have an 04 Durango 5.7 hemi I dd and tow my rig with and I average 16.5 driving to work and around 10 while towing.

 

[Erobey]

Got a 2500 crew cab short bed hemi bought it with 60 got 14-15 all around I got 160k on it now and it's dropped to 13-14. Towing a short trailer and 1 rig it gets like 10 staying at the speed limit with no big hills. Pulling my 30 ft goose neck with 1 rig to my dads last week it got like 7. I have 3.73 gears and stock tires it hates running 60-65 it's right where it wants to shift. Bump it up to 75 and it will run there all day till a hill slows it's down

 

[ridered3]

Dodge, Hemi, and 18mpg are things that don't go in the same sentence together! The regular cab and 5 speed will help some, but that generation Hemi likes the revs so may cancel out any weight savings cab wise.

 

[socsmm6]

I have a 2004 1/2 ton 4x4 quad cab with a hemi and auto tranny with 3.90 gears It gets 14-15 with mostly highway driving. Slow it down to 50-55 mph on the trace and it will get about 18-19. 10-12mpg pulling a trailer if you keep it around 65-70.

 

[The Luke]

That's not terrible. But not great either. I appreciate the input fellas

 

[Pumpkin]

I have a 04 Quad cab 2500. Hemi, auto and 3.73 gears. 14 hwy 11-12 city. I don't care if I pull the enclosed 16ft band trailer or my 30ft gooseneck it goes to single digits. But I drive it hard. With my Yota loaded on the trailer it goes from 9 to 8mpg. Other than exhaust leaks (broken manifold stubs to header collectors breaking), mine has been a good truck. If it lays down tomorrow I cannot really complain. It has had a hard life.