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Old 05-24-2012, 08:48 PM   #3 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by dmerle View Post
When I last filled my car I did the fillip routine on my scangauge II. After I drove for about 15 minutes my current mpg was 37.5 but the tank avg mph was 35. Why wouldn't they be the same?
...sounds like the algorithm that's "estimating" MPG is simply momentarily 'over/under shooting' as it does it's number crunching, usually the result of mixing integer and decimal numbers.
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