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Old 10-11-2009, 12:30 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Evil Pumpkin - '08 Scion xD RS 1.0 #1633
90 day: 35.45 mpg (US)

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Scangauge and Partial Fills

Now admittedly I may not know everything about my scangauge, but I have noticed one fatal flaw in my own unit.

They do not like partial fills. Now I know I cannot do calculations on mpg based on partial fills, but my scangauge goes haywire when I hit the fill up button.

For example, the other day I added 3 gallons of gas to my xD, when I went to hit the fill up button it read 9.78 gallons. Now if you make the manual adjustment it throws off your reading incredibly taking over three full tanks to balance back out.

Am I missing something? Is there a way to keep the scangauge accurate with partial fill ups?

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