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Old 10-24-2014, 09:02 PM   #82 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by MetroMPG View Post
Oh, yes - forgot to tell you about that. The OBD protocol in this car doesn't like to be keyed off and on. It takes a long time for it to start talking to the ScanGauge again, so you lose distance calcs.

So, a kill switch will help a lot.
Yup...the kill switch is the best thing you can do. Set the ScanGauge fuel type to "HYBRID" and sleep setting to "COMM". I can EOC (with kill switch), coast to a stop and sit there indefinitely while my ScanGuage stays awake and keeps counting.
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