2/10/2003 3:36:57 PM, "IanG" <I@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>Has anybody yet questioned the accuracy of mileage measurement yet? If so
>how do they compensate for different tyre makes, tread pattern, wear,
>pressure, temperature, differential effects and, of course reversing.
>
>Faulty air mass-flow meter = no turbos.... I speak with experience here...
>
>Also my Audi computer has been know to give, on a 60 mile return trip, an
>average fuel consumption in single digit miles per imperial gallon... proven
>by the fact that I started with a full tank and ended with a virtually empty
>tank :-( At this burn rate and UK fuel at 6 or 7 USD a gallon I don't need
>all these fancy calculations anyway - my bank manager does it all for me :-(
>
>Just a thought.
>Ian
estimates are just that, a ballpark figure... depends on how you drive really!
depending on leadfoot or featherfoot. besides, when you
start chipping your car, as you have, everything goes out the window!
/S
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