scan guage in 100 series

Fuel economy = "Liftum Foot":)

just save your money for the next price increase and use alternative transport where you can. Shanks pony is a good one.

owen

Yes, it can help, especially when towing (you can see when your fuel usage really goes up... about 95kph for us) and for low range work (not so much for improving your economy but at least you can see how much more your using and if you've got enough to get to where you're going). You can see immediately what your right foot or the terrain is doing to fuel usage. Plugging in is simple assuming your vehicle is supported.

Initial setup involves setting what type of fuel is being used. I can't remember what choices were available (other than gas=petrol in yank speak). No idea what this actually does.

Each time you fill up, you can set the litres to calibrate it (this can change a bit due to different bowser nozzles, ambient temp, etc) so it knows how many litres are left, etc. When running on gas, I'd imagine you'd need to change this setting (based on what you've determine after a few fillups). Best to ask the supplier how to go about this unless you can find someone running a similar setup to you.

Overall, I've found it to be accurate enough. For example, during a recent 20,000+ trip, using it's data I calculated my overall consumption to be 18.23L/100km. Using the actual fuel pumped and the cars odometer I calculated it at 18.22l/100km. The base numbers used for these calcs were slightly different as there were a couple of days I didn't record the scangauge data so I can understand a 0.01 difference :)

cheers, Nige

Mal
Just tried one on my 06 Troopy RV TD 1HD FTE and would not recognise the computer!
Got mine from wooders garage (Dave) and he is doing me a refund.
It is strange as I have read they work on a Prado,so one would assume that the "protocols" were the same?

Brian

Richard
Yes mine was the later variant, April/May 06 build and as said it was a no go!

Brian

Thanks to all repliers, might do a bit more research to see if it is compatable. Wonder if you could reprogramme it to say Aussie lingo like as previously noted ( Liftumfootumnow or somethin).

Cheers Mal