I have a company vehicle (described above)- my employees have complained that while driving this truck it's making noise and it kind of lunges forward when decelerating. They also said that it is idling at a high rate (approx. 30 rpm's while stopped). I think it sounds like the timing belt/ chain. Plan to have it evaluated. However, one issue that has come up is they said they are not getting as good gas mileage (went from getting 14-15 mpg to approx. 10.5 mpg) since this anomaly began. Is it possible (as they maintain) that this above mentioned problem has affected the gas mileage??
Sep 14, 2010 at 9:48 AM
