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Old 02-04-2013, 03:13 PM   #55
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Originally Posted by Gixxersixxerman View Post
I reset mine every fill up too, also I notice mine is about 1-2 mpg off.. Also on the high side like yours.. When I'm traveling back and forth to my parents.. 35 miles one way and slightly up hill there down hill back. It's closer to one mpg off from real world.. When I'm heading into fort Irwin which has a nice big mountain pass to go over, I'm closer to two mpg off from real world.. My long drives from Barstow to El Paso.. El Paso to Killeen tx then back to paso and back to Barstow.. All those long distance averages were about .5-.7 off..
My hypothesis is that the Avg MPG trip indicator is skewed high do to the "off-throttle-127mpg" computation. I think if the off-throttle computation was reduced to 99mpg (like it is in other vehicles) the Avg MPG trip indicator may be closer to real world calculations.

This is just a hypothesis.
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