scan guage in 100 series
Submitted: Wednesday, Mar 05, 2008 at 23:08
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Member - Hunjy (NSW)
evening All
Always thinking about fuel economy in this current climate so would a scanguage be any benefit to fuel economy?
Is fitting one just a matter of plugging in and away you go or is it a bit more complicated.
Does one size fit all and where would it plug in in a 4.5 LC 100?
Also the truck is on Gas.
Thanks in advance.
Mal
Reply By: HGMonaro - Thursday, Mar 06, 2008 at 10:04
Thursday, Mar 06, 2008 at 10:04
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
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