View Poll Results: What Information Screen Do You Use All The Time?
Blank Screen
9
1.69%
Outside Temp.
231
43.26%
Range Approximate
45
8.43%
Average MPG
30
5.62%
Tank Average MPG
61
11.42%
Current MPG
41
7.68%
Average Speed
1
0.19%
Gear Position
113
21.16%
Never bother to look at display
3
0.56%
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What Information Screen Do You Use All The Time?
#94
Lexus Test Driver
I was just about to start a thread on this. I really wish this car had more displays seen at one time. Not having the temp show at the same time as seeing the MPG's is disappointing. The temp should be seperate somewhere else and always on. It's one of the most used pieces of info. Otherwise, I keep it on tank average. What I have found is this is a more accurate average of MPG's than the regular "average" mpg's. I can travel 20 miles on flat highway with the instant mpg's showing 35, but the average mpg readout only budges up one or two tenths. That's impossible considering the distance traveled for 20 miles. Yet if you have the tank average on, it jumps up much faster and more in tune with the current mpg's. I've tested this out for 2000 miles now, and the tank average is far more accurate for getting up to date mpg info. Go figure.
I also tested out cruise control and mpg's last night on a long flat stretch of interstate. Mileage dropped a few digits with cruise on. Those of you using cruise to save gas are fooling yourselves. With a steady foot not digging into the gas over and over, one can achieve higher mpg's without cruise. Cruise is just too abrupt on the gas. Every car I've owned with a trip computer has confirmed this.
I also tested out cruise control and mpg's last night on a long flat stretch of interstate. Mileage dropped a few digits with cruise on. Those of you using cruise to save gas are fooling yourselves. With a steady foot not digging into the gas over and over, one can achieve higher mpg's without cruise. Cruise is just too abrupt on the gas. Every car I've owned with a trip computer has confirmed this.
Last edited by Fizzboy7; 05-31-08 at 09:20 PM.
#96
Lexus Test Driver
#97
Not a mistep at all. It's a lifetime average (or at least if you don't reset it). They have a separate display for lifetime average, tank average, and current average. That makes sense to me. BTW, I do agree that tank average is the most useful display, and that's what I use most often.
#98
Lexus Test Driver
Not a mistep at all. It's a lifetime average (or at least if you don't reset it). They have a separate display for lifetime average, tank average, and current average. That makes sense to me. BTW, I do agree that tank average is the most useful display, and that's what I use most often.
But yes, there is a function for everything once one learns what's what.
#101
Instructor
Thread Starter
I was just about to start a thread on this. I really wish this car had more displays seen at one time. Not having the temp show at the same time as seeing the MPG's is disappointing. The temp should be seperate somewhere else and always on. It's one of the most used pieces of info. Otherwise, I keep it on tank average. What I have found is this is a more accurate average of MPG's than the regular "average" mpg's. I can travel 20 miles on flat highway with the instant mpg's showing 35, but the average mpg readout only budges up one or two tenths. That's impossible considering the distance traveled for 20 miles. Yet if you have the tank average on, it jumps up much faster and more in tune with the current mpg's. I've tested this out for 2000 miles now, and the tank average is far more accurate for getting up to date mpg info. Go figure.
I also tested out cruise control and mpg's last night on a long flat stretch of interstate. Mileage dropped a few digits with cruise on. Those of you using cruise to save gas are fooling yourselves. With a steady foot not digging into the gas over and over, one can achieve higher mpg's without cruise. Cruise is just too abrupt on the gas. Every car I've owned with a trip computer has confirmed this.
I also tested out cruise control and mpg's last night on a long flat stretch of interstate. Mileage dropped a few digits with cruise on. Those of you using cruise to save gas are fooling yourselves. With a steady foot not digging into the gas over and over, one can achieve higher mpg's without cruise. Cruise is just too abrupt on the gas. Every car I've owned with a trip computer has confirmed this.
#105
im not sure why it gives average speed. i prefer to keep it on the outside temp, and if i fall below a qtr on the tank, ill switch to approx range and begin to search around for the nearest mobil station.