"My kids(sons)".....

 

Wilson- go to gasbuddy.com and enter your information there. It keeps track of your MPG, how many gallons, $$ spent etc. Pretty neat little website and you can then free up your dash pod from all those receipts

I've used gasbuddy for a couple of years now





Goose

 

Look guys, I was trusting the DIC but still writing down my mileage and gas every trip to the station. Yes, I reset everything after every fillup. I sat down one day and figured out the actual mileage and it was always 1-2 mpg less every time. I saw the DIC once hit 30 mpg on a long trip but it never exceeded 27 when I figured it out manually.

After a fillup, clear out all the areas of the DIC that apply to mileage, then set the DIC to MPG. Watch how it changes whether you're going high speeds on the interstate or sitting at a stoplight. The remote start and idling in a parking lot really affect what the DIC says.

It may be a computer but it can be flawed also. Sorry but I don't trust it!

 

That's why I trust it. It is giving you a real world number of what you are currently getting based on all of the data that it is gathering. To me that seems far more accurate than "I went x amount of miles on x amount of gas.". Figuring out how many gallons you actually used while driving is a good guess at best. Unless you completely empty your tank, fill it with a set amount of gas, and drive it until it is completely empty again you are not going to know the exact amount of fuel you used. Trying to get an exact amount based on "I used about a half tank and the tank is 16 gallons" isn't close enough for my liking. I'm pretty sure the computer knows exactly how many gallons of gas it has used.

 

Opps, my bad....

I meant to say, "I would hope they're both males".

For BB.....

 

Some have touched upon this, but stop and think a second. The DIC does NOT know how much gas you put in the tank at each fill up. It is NOT calculating mpg that way. It is calculating based upon actual gas consumption via the fuel line and the number of miles via the odometer. It is accurate as accurate can be. Now let's say you and I pull into the gas station and we each have about 10 gallons in the tank. I fill mine up and I squeeze in another 7 gallons. You fill yours but you stop the second the pump clicks off and only put in 6 gallons. We both drove 120 miles. My mpg via a calculator would be 17.14. Your gas mph would be 20.
Now lets say we both went into the station on different days. The day I drove in it was 89 degrees and all I could get into my tank was 6 gallons because the existing gas was heat expanded. You go in and it is only 69 degrees, you can get more gas into your tank. Again our mph would vary greatly if we figured it with a calculator.
The computer (dic) however knows exactly how much it "drank" and how many miles you went via that gas. It therefore calculates an average, just as you do when you calculate it on the calculaor...but it is more accurate (dic) because it has no variability due to temperature, how much gas one squeezed in vs those who just let is click off, etc.

 

RickH....

Thank you for that. It was exactly my point.

Now that's 2 of us that believe it.

 

Personally I am surprised by the number of people that can't get used to modern technology in their vehicles and don't trust it.

 

If that is the case are we better of resetting the DIC every fill if I want an accurate mpg for that tank of gas?



Goose

 

I'm one of the most technically advanced person on this board. I've been working with computers since 1975. Keypunching was a bear! So that's why I know computers can be flawed. One little glitch in the programming and you'll never get the right numbers.

So, if the DIC figures actuals miles driven compared to actual gasoline used, tell me it knows how much gas was used and is left in the tank? And why is my mileage consistantly lower than what the DIC says. Yes, I'm pretty good in math so don't think I'm figuring it wrong.

I'm still very happy with the mileage no matter which method I use!