Insert from MythBusters - Tailgate Up or Down 2 (from More Myths Revisited) fuel consumption test

This is a part from More Myths Revisited episode 64 where boys are testing fuel consumption in addition to tailgate up/down, also tested hardcover over pickup bed, tailgate removed, and tailgate mesh. Testing done with an electronic flowmeter hooked into fuel line for precise measuring.

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Autos & Vehicles

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• purpose
• discovery
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• up
• down
• myth
• myths
• revisited
• episode
• 64
• fuel
• efficiency
• pick
• test
• gas
• consumption
• aerodynamic
• trip
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• cruise
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• water
• tunnel

[legacy5990]

I'll still drive with tail gate down. Why you ask? Because the cameras can't see my license plate. Lol.

[DreadyDiggs]

A tonneau cover isn't light. Added weight means the engine does more work. The added weight is a negative, the better mileage is a positive, and they clash and cancel out.

The mesh saves weight and changes how air moves about in the bed.

I have an 87 F150 but it won't get a cover or mesh. It's a truck didn't buy it to save on gas. Bought it to do work.

[hellowtfru]

so... they dont want us to try what they do?? so we arent supposed to drive?? help...

[CRDakota68]

Interesting, I bet mesh is cheaper too.

[cutenukkah]

yeah try that on an 8 foot bed not a 6 footer

[anthonypotter64]

i think they should do tool box in and tool box out lol

[TIGHTWADHERMAN]

Not all trucks same // air dynamics // stone guards under truck change back draft // and height of truck // have owed 10 or 12 trucks and drove 30 more over my life time some it helps some it hurts millage // NOW LET ME SAY THIS I DONT SELL OR PROFIT FROM // THIS ITEM I AM RECOMMENDING

Buy a { ULTRA-GAUGE } There only about 70 dollars and it Will give you correct info // it plugs into ob11 port // takes about 15 mins to install // has 73 different gauges // see them here on YOUTUBE

[lexevo]

@MrJager23x Because there credibility of the show is worth 1,000 times more then what a truck net company can afford to bride them with.

[6SpeedSilverado]

seriously people who complain about gas mileage are retards. you chose the vehicle you have to suffer with what it gets for gas mileage. i drive a truck cause i want to. i could probably get away with driving a Prius, but i dont want to. so i suffer with the gas mileage.

[MrJager23x]

I want to fully trust them but how can I be sure that they are not affiliated with a truck net company?

[punxsutawneybarney]

To watch the mythbusters guys set off a half a ton of thermite in an effort to burn a car in half, see my video "Incendiary Experiments"

[WarblesOnALot]

@dferendario

Um, Gday. I call myself a "retired Low-Speed Aerodynamics-Consultant"...;OK­, & these are good efforts 2ward a valid test. What they missed is the effect battery- condition has on fuelburn. At 30% discharged, anything with a 3:1 alternator step-up drive (normal these days) may use 30% fuelburn for recharging... Search 'sunfoil' & view the "Short-Talk.." clip, it has most recent data... For the Aerodynamic aspects, try 'solar thermal ramjet'.