Hello from Scotland.
 

I have always tried to drive economically, but since buying an old Honda Jazz, last year, it has started to become an obsession. Now my wife has started to look at me askance when I freewheel over a crest at 10 mph!
I have only started the freewheel lark about a fortnight ago, but I am beginning to know what roads are best for it and what roads to avoid.
I am looking forward to picking up tips and tricks from the experienced frugal drivers here.

Welcome. The Honda Jazz is a european Fit, correct?

You anywhere near Prestwick oe Ayr?


USA-clan motto: "Dulce Periculum"

Yes, the Jazz is the Euro Fit. Kirkcaldy, where I live is about 90 miles from Prestwick. I take it you are a guitar man and a MacAulay?

Yes, on both accounts.

I have built a couple of Teles. One in Swamp Ash (Avatar) and one in Walnut (more of an Esquire as it has a single humbucker bridge pickup).

Welcome To EM
 

Welcome to EM

Here are some links to start with:

65+ Vehicle modifications for better fuel economy - EcoModder.com

100+ Hypermiling / ecodriving tips & tactics for better mpg - EcoModder.com

Welcome to the site. Yes it can certainly become an obsession always trying for a new high score. :)

Do you have any mods planned?

I wouldn't know where to start with mods. I'll read the links and see what is feasible (and affordable). I was thinking of fitting some form of instantaneous fuel consumption read out. My Jazz has a trip fuel consumption display, but not the instantaneous one fitted to later models. I fancy a Scangauge, but on a pension it is rather pricey.

I use the ELM 327 bluetooth adapter that plugs into the obd port, I personally use Dash Command on Android phone to connect to it and a lot of people use the Torque app.

Adapters can be had for as cheap as $10USD or a better quality one for $25-30USD, I have the better one after going through 3 cheap ones!

Unfortunately I have no experience with the Iphone connectivity but have heard it uses a Wifi adapter of the same type instead of bluetooth

Bit the bullet and, after watching some rather poor videos on YouTube and downloading and reading the manual, I ordered a ScanGauge E. Hoping it will pay for itself over the next year or so.

I have a bad habit of staring at the monitoring device instead of the road, it is in middle of windshield as it also doubles as my dash camera...(old Note 2 phone

Welcome aboard, friend! I'm new here aswell, and it's great!

One year ago I bought a ScanGauge E too and it was the best investigation. I expect that within the first year using it it saved me three times as much fuel than it's price.

As FordMan wrote it's an eye-catcher and more important than the street. So I placed it just behind the steering wheel.

The first year I let it display AVG (average consumption) and LPH (liters per hundred kilometers) what is typical for middle of Europe. So I learned how to drive the car most economically. Today it shows the speed (more realistically than the car's speed-indicator) and AVG as well. So this is the only device to look at while driving and there is more time to care for the street what happens.

I don't have space behind the steering wheel (at least I don't think so. I'll check once it arrives), but I'll keep it as near to line of sight as possible. I currently have an AVG display on the dashboard. Not brilliantly accurate but at least it shows when my average is going up or coming down. My dash cam displays a GPS speedometer on the rear, so I can play with the ScanGauge to my heart's content.

I suppose there is space. I just checked another Jazz, should be same age as yours:
http://666kb.com/i/dkl7qhsyfqcia2pkw.jpg

At my car it looks fine. I put it to the same place
http://666kb.com/i/dkl7ru0ttf97aw6ps.jpg
and fixed it with an hook-and-loop tape, so I can remove if needed. Until now there was no need :)

http://666kb.com/i/dkl7vqneevw9n1fk0.jpg
While driving I can see all the signal lamps. Just the total mileage is covered but there is no need observing it all the time.

It might be possible, especially if I drop the wheel down a bit, but the odometer is also an average mileage display and if I use something else on the ScanGauge I'd like that still visible.

http://i914.photobucket.com/albums/a...pslfio0pib.jpg

Once it arrives I can check set up out.