*poll* your favorite OBDII guage

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Howdy,

I'm looking to help out my driving a little bit (I'm already pretty good since I drive about 33K/year and I'm already stingy at the pump).

What are you guys using? do you like it? feedback is greatly appreciated

[Daox]

SGII, love it and use one in both of my cars.

[Nevyn]

I love my SGII, but I feel that the shortcomings of the UltraGauge (which I forget why I disliked it ATM) are offset by the fact that it can display 5 items to the SGII's 4, and that it's a LOT more inexpensive if you're just getting started.

[Piwoslaw]

I'd vote for the SGII, since that's what I'm using. But I won't, since I haven't tested any of the others, so it wouldn't be fair.

[Niner]

I haven't tested the SG2 much, but my dad has one on his truck. I have an UG and an MPGuino and I'm torn between them. The UG looks nice and seems to work well. However, the UG (as anything off the OBDII port) estimates gas milage based off the mass airflow sensor. When my car's in deceleration fuel-cutoff, the UG still shows fuel used (between 160-320MPG, but still). The MPGuino reads directly off an injector port so it assumes infinite MPG when that stops. I keep the MPGuino around for if I ever get around to doing real testing, since I can count on more exact values, but for day to day driving the UG meets my needs.

[KITT222]

I have a KIWI MPG meter. Big, bright, non-distracting during the night, and cheap!

[CigaR007]

I've had the ScangaugeII for over a week now, and it is an awesome tool. Still haven't scraped the surface in terms of functionality yet.

[SentraSE-R]

I own both the Scangauge II and Ultragauge. The SGII has some advantages if you have a Prius, and/or if you want to monitor something unusual, like transmission fluid temperature and you know the coding necessary to display that parameter. You'll spend hours just programming and testing the xgauges that work for your car.

The UG is much more usable for a beginner, and for the vast majority of people who aren't into programming xgauges. Instead of tedious SG programming while guessing which OBD-II communications protocol your car uses, you plug the UG in, and it recognizes the protocol within seconds, and displays the available standard gauges that most of us use.

Bottom line: if I were to buy one tomorrow, for myself or as a gift, I'd buy another UG. It's less than half the price of the SG, looks better (much more modern display), and displays six parameters per screen, with three screens available. The SG shows only four parameters. With the UG, if I want to display g/h, distance to empty, and avg tank mpg, and they're not on my main screen, one push of a button and they're all on my second screen. With the SG, I have to cycle through the dozen or so standard gauges and 24 xgauges each time I want to change just one of the four displayed parameters. That's 20 or so button pushes to get to g/h, and another 20 or so to get to DTE - tedious stuff.

[cfg83]

Hello -

I have an SGI so I picked the SGII. Other than the XGauge feature I consider them to be practically the same.

CarloSW2

[redneck]

Originally Posted by SentraSE-R

I own both the Scangauge II and Ultragauge. The SGII has some advantages if you have a Prius, and/or if you want to monitor something unusual, like transmission fluid temperature and you know the coding necessary to display that parameter. You'll spend hours just programming and testing the xgauges that work for your car.

The UG is much more usable for a beginner, and for the vast majority of people who aren't into programming xgauges. Instead of tedious SG programming while guessing which OBD-II communications protocol your car uses, you plug the UG in, and it recognizes the protocol within seconds, and displays the available standard gauges that most of us use.

Bottom line: if I were to buy one tomorrow, for myself or as a gift, I'd buy another UG. It's less than half the price of the SG, looks better (much more modern display), and displays six parameters per screen, with three screens available. The SG shows only four parameters. With the UG, if I want to display g/h, distance to empty, and avg tank mpg, and they're not on my main screen, one push of a button and they're all on my second screen. With the SG, I have to cycle through the dozen or so standard gauges and 24 xgauges each time I want to change just one of the four displayed parameters. That's 20 or so button pushes to get to g/h, and another 20 or so to get to DTE - tedious stuff.

I have both also and could not have written a better assessment...

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