ScanGauge II?

Previously on rec.autos.makers.mazda, Jack McGann said:

> > Hmm... maybe I can put that mount +under+ the mirror instead...
>
> Check the forums at miata.net, You'll find lots of "options" for mounting
> locations

Not a Miata, a 6. I know of 'mazda6club', but I'm not to thrilled with
that site.

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"Jeffrey Kaplan" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Previously on rec.autos.makers.mazda, Jack McGann said:

> At one point, it claimed I was getting
> 130MPG, and another it claimed 99999MPG. Both of those, and similar,
> were transitory, only lasting a couple of seconds. But still... there
> is no way a Mazda/Ford 3 liter V6 with over 80K miles ('03 Mazda6s) can
> +ever+ get 130MPG!

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From: "Jeffrey Kaplan" <(E-Mail Removed)>
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Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2008 4:35 PM
Subject: Re: ScanGauge II?


> Previously on rec.autos.makers.mazda, Jack McGann said:
>
>> I've used one in my Miata for 2 years now. Using the data, I've probably
>> paid for it in gas savings three times over.
>
> It arrived today and I plugged it in. Couple of things... why does the
> MPG gauge jump around so much? At one point, it claimed I was getting
> 130MPG, and another it claimed 99999MPG. Both of those, and similar,
> were transitory, only lasting a couple of seconds. But still... there
> is no way a Mazda/Ford 3 liter V6 with over 80K miles ('03 Mazda6s) can
> +ever+ get 130MPG!

That MPG your looking at is the "instantaneous mpg". You need to look at
"Tank" + "Current" mpg
At any moment if your in neutral, or coasting clutch in, your mpg varies
widely, even between uphill + downhill... on the instantaneous MPG..

Previously on rec.autos.makers.mazda, Jeffrey Kaplan said:

> It arrived today and I plugged it in. Couple of things... why does the
> MPG gauge jump around so much? At one point, it claimed I was getting
> 130MPG, and another it claimed 99999MPG. Both of those, and similar,

Ok, I finally RTFM. Apparently, an MPG reading of 9999 means that the
car had momentarily turned off the fuel injectors, and there is a
threshold setting I can set that should prevent that particular
reading, but it wasn't too clear about other effects.

Still trying to find a good place to mount it.

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