EPA figures not correct?

[Jay2TheRescue]

EPA figures not correct?

The site is reporting my 98 GMC K1500 4wd pickup with a 5.7 liter V8 and auto trans as being EPA rated as 13 city 17 hwy15 combined. The EPA's website reports my vehicle gets 12 city 16 hwy 13 combined. How can I correct this information?

Thanks, Jay

http://www.fuelly.com/driver/jay2therescue/k1500

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This is an issue with old vs. new EPA numbers. The EPA recently revised their mileage estimates for all cars, but haven't yet made those new numbers available in a format that sites like Fuelly can use. Here's the difference in numbers reported by the EPA for your model: 1998 GMC Sierra 1500 4WD.

You can see that Fuelly has the old numbers. Until the EPA makes the new numbers available for download, we're stuck. We could update a model here or there by hand, but setting the new numbers across thousands of models/trim levels over dozens of years isn't possible by hand.

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Just for the record, this came up before: Old vs. New Estimates.

[Jay2TheRescue]

I knew they were revised, I just wasn't sure if the old estimates or was it giving me EPA data for a newer model. I did try to look and see if there was a similar question asked, but I'm used to how vBulletin forums work, and I'm not really familiar with how this forum organizes the posts.

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oh, that's fine. I was just linking to the old thread to consolidate information in case someone else has the same problem.