D.R.Bain
Michigan
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How many use cruise control to save fuel? For years I have used it in all my vehicles not only to help in saving fuel, but to also help me avoid tickets.
I even use it in town to avoid going over 25 in all my GMs. My MH however is on a Ford chassis and it won't set below 30.
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rhillx4
Huntington Beach ,CA
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I use my cruise control not to save fuel but to keep my lead foot under control. 
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Aridon
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If your cruise gears down often when in hilly areas its probably not saving you anything. If its not then yes its an awesome tool to use.
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ArcticDodge
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I use it when on the flats (not many around here) but as I approach a incline, I turn it off and back off the throttle trying to keep the tranny from shifting down even if it means slowing down a bit. Otherwise it shifts down and revs way up to maintain the set speed to what is usually something over the posted speed limit anyway.
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w6pea
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I have found that if I use the cruise control I get very good mileage. set it at 60mph. I get a little better than 12mpg. depending on wind conditions. If the people behind me don't like it that I'm driving 60mph. they can go around me and waste their gasoline or diesel. I have class c with the v-10.
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Barbilou and Fujimo
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I use it to stay at 60, it's too hard to NOT do that 75 thing with everyone else. BUT on the way back from Mexico to Minnesota, we tested many times with it on or off, and we did slightly better with it off, I think because of that revving thing.
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fourfurz
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I use cruise everywhere, but as other posters have indicated, not to save fuel so much as to keep from getting tickets. Without it, I've looked down and seen 95 on the speedo! That's fast in a 42,000 lb. vehicle.
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Pepperoni
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I use cruise to fight road-fatigue. I can drive twice as long using cruise; much less eye work watching the speed and less leg work. Let the fast traffic go by--- keep the cop-bait out front.
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SemperFiCop
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Pepperoni wrote:I use cruise to fight road-fatigue. I can drive twice as long using cruise; much less eye work watching the speed and less leg work. Let the fast traffic go by--- keep the cop-bait out front.
You have the Right idea,
"cop-bait"...
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sepisllib
Cresco, Iowa
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You won't save fuel using cruise unless you are in very flat driving conditions.
The cruise control tries to "maintain" your speed at what it has been told to. It cannot anticipate those hills and valleys.
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