Friday, May 05, 2006 at 15:24
Hi Coyote
Yes the company falcon hack I drive reads out instant fuel consumption
liters left range etc - you sort of wonder why some of the touring
wagons couldn't do better as standard don't you.
Still the figures from the hack and relativily meaningless when
you get into trying to apply them , I use 99lt/100k by time
I get out of carpark for instance.
Some do it better and I have driven a Bm right down to when it
says 6km left before I gave in and re-fuelled.
In my car, a Patrol , its hard enough to even get an accurate
fuel tank reading - when car warms up on the way to work the gauge
can read higher than when I left
home, guess because of the heating
of the fuel via return fuel line.
On hills it gets even harder.
I'd be happy to get just this part right and I have tried a few tricks
like re-mapping the sender level via a small micrchip to read
different values and map out tanks funny shapes.
But never really proved more meaning full than the GPS so don't
bother.
The GPS has a value you can set for average fuel consumption and
combined with trip function gives useful results with a bit of
intelligence applied.
Robin Miller
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