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MetroMPG · 07-06-2011, 05:35 PM

You're welcome!

I'm looking forward to doing some testing in my U.F.O. (2000 Honda Insight), but not until I get better instrumentation installed.

The car's factory, resettable fuel consumption display is supposedly accurate, but it only refreshes once a minute, and that's too slow for testing on my preferred 1.6 km test course. And since the car has a lean-burn engine, I can't use a ScanGauge.

So, an MPGuino it will be! (Have one, just need to install it.)

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