Overhead computer!!
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Overhead computer!!
Well, I my overhead computer went out a few months ago and I finally got around to fixing it. It was a snap, I searched for the fix on the forums and the step by step instructions that I found was perfect!! It is kinda nice having the overhead computer even if it is a lie-o-meter. Anyway, I was just letting anyone that has had a problem with lie-o-meter that the fix is super easy.
Thanks, Bryan
Thanks, Bryan
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My meter has always been pretty dayum accurate. I am getting 8.2 mpg on the winter blend, and I get 8.3 mpg on the summer blend.
And if I use a calculator and divide the miles vs gallons myself I come up with the same thing the meter does.
And if I use a calculator and divide the miles vs gallons myself I come up with the same thing the meter does.
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Mine just seems to stay the same...I thot that it was supposed to change everytime you got a tank of gas. The way I work it now is that if I am going out pulling the trailer,I set it to 10 mpg and if I'm going freeway driving,it gets set to 17mpg.. Usually I just set it on the temperature and leave it there..
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Originally Posted by bigdog55
Mine just seems to stay the same...I thot that it was supposed to change everytime you got a tank of gas. The way I work it now is that if I am going out pulling the trailer,I set it to 10 mpg and if I'm going freeway driving,it gets set to 17mpg.. Usually I just set it on the temperature and leave it there..
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Originally Posted by bigdog55
Mine just seems to stay the same...I thot that it was supposed to change everytime you got a tank of gas. The way I work it now is that if I am going out pulling the trailer,I set it to 10 mpg and if I'm going freeway driving,it gets set to 17mpg.. Usually I just set it on the temperature and leave it there..
reset to zero on a fill-up and after using three or four tank fulls of gas it will give you a good average...
the more distance you have driven between resets, the longer a different driving style would take to change the averages...
thats why short mileage test are useless... hitting passing gear one time with a V10 on a 100 mile test, but would make a noticable difference but not so spread out over 1,000 miles...
hitting passing gear ten times in that 1,000 miles would net the same results of the 100 mile test, but by then enough miles are included to assume that to be you driving style...
as far as averages go mine is dead on when compared to using the same information on paper...
miles till empty is based soley on the past averages and can be way off going forward if you just did a 1,000 highway miles and are heading into and through a city for a planned fuel stop...
