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Old Jul 13, 2011 | 07:22 AM
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What Gauge Screen?

I picked up my new truck last night. This is a fabulous Truck. My question is in the title. What screen do you use in your gauge cluster most of the time?
 
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Old Jul 13, 2011 | 07:26 AM
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I use trips A & B
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I picked up my new truck last night. This is a fabulous Truck. My question is in the title. What screen do you use in your gauge cluster most of the time?
 
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Old Jul 13, 2011 | 07:33 AM
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I use the instant fuel economy or trans / oil temp.
 
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Old Jul 13, 2011 | 07:49 AM
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I scroll endlessly If I were to rank the number 1 screen, it would be the temp screen.
 
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Old Jul 13, 2011 | 08:12 AM
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Originally Posted by 6.7Fan
I use the instant fuel economy or trans / oil temp.
+1

text added cuz it won't let me post just +1
 
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Old Jul 13, 2011 | 08:21 AM
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I use the A B Trip. I hit the down arrow once for miles to empty.
 
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Old Jul 13, 2011 | 08:59 AM
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Trip A/B...Instant Fuel Economy and the Compass... with 50 gallons of fuel I need the compass to keep me from getting lost
 
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Old Jul 13, 2011 | 09:31 AM
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That's the great thing about thus country, you can watch what you want. I watch the MPG screen not a lot of excitement in any of the screens. Wish we could get movies....
 
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Old Jul 13, 2011 | 10:05 AM
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MTE / Mileage Screen
 
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Old Jul 13, 2011 | 02:28 PM
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I leave mine on the Settings-MTE Towing or Normal screen most of the time. I need it to be ready at all times when switching from loaded to unloaded.


Serious: I use the temp screen as well
 
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Old Jul 13, 2011 | 04:23 PM
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I rarely get to see it. My wife puts a yellow sticky over the screen with a list of things I'm supposed to do.
 
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Old Jul 13, 2011 | 06:05 PM
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I rarely get to see it. My wife puts a yellow sticky over the screen with a list of things I'm supposed to do.
LOL!! Too funny.
 
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Old Jul 13, 2011 | 06:56 PM
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Temp screen most of the time. Mileage when I get close to E for a second or two, then back to temps. I always have a trailer with me and stay on interstates most of the time so the mileage is not that fun to watch, temps are important with a load. Trip A is used to log my current trip, trip B logs the monthly miles and fuel estimate.

Just to throw this out there, I have 5 trailers stored in the trailer menu and I track those miles too. Great feature.

System check very rarely but I do use it so it's good to have. I would use my key if anyone else ever drove my truck but I don't have that problem.
 
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Old Jul 13, 2011 | 09:23 PM
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I rarely get to see it. My wife puts a yellow sticky over the screen with a list of things I'm supposed to do.
+1 On the too funny

I hope my wife doesn't think of that....

I also set my key to 80 so I can keep the speed down. No kids at home and if I did they would not use my truck. So the only kid I have to keep from speeding is me.
 
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Old Jul 13, 2011 | 09:33 PM
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Mileage screen...although it frustrates me because of how small the stock fuel tank is. So I might just switch the the temps screen for now.
 
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