MPG & Air on/off?
Never owning a MH before I guess this question never occurred to me, but talking to a salesman it came up.
I assumed that while running down the road you would run the Fords (gas V10) air conditioner if that was really all you needed to stay comfortable. His advise was to generally always keep the engines air shut off, and instead run the gen set and coaches air units. The reasoning was that based on the amount of gas the gen set would use compared to the MPG decrease by running the engine air, you would save fuel.
What say ye experienced gas MH users? I know in my 1-ton diesel it wouldn't make much difference, but maybe this makes sense with a gas engine?
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pulling a 24' enclosed (Mini Cooper/Harley/Kayak)
(traded 2014 Thor Challenger)
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