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Old 12-30-2009, 11:24 AM   #21 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by mtgeekman View Post
The scan gauge doesn't monitor weather you are in lean burn or not. so it bases its calculations on a air/fuel ratio of 14.7:1 and assumes that this number does not change.
Yeah, that's what I said :-) It's not actually measuring fuel consumption, it's making guesses, which sometimes turn out to be wrong. Then there's another issue when trying to drive by its computed number: the response is too slow.

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