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I am not much concerned about MPG on the Vegas other than as an indicator something may be going wrong. I do this with all stuff we own.
Last fall the SUV the Vegas replaced as primary tow vehicle went from 21 MPG down to 17 MPG on 45 mile trips to town. Same road, same conditions. Rear wheels seemed hotter than fronts. Found rear calipers real tight. Replaced rear calipers, pads and rotors and it is fine. We now alternate between car and SUV as it does sit a lot with retirement.
Essentially whatever the vegas gets is fine with us. Monitoring MPG is just an operational check. I usually dump excess pump premium from racecar into it and see no change in MPG and less tendancy to ping.
We looked at sprinter based units because of better MPG but none had enough GCVW for towing the racecar. At over 18k this has no issue staying with traffic. Merging and passing is no issue. Most of my towing is flat areas so MPG does not vary much.
4 years now and really do not have any complaints. Will be racing next 3 weekends.
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