On Apr 23, 4:23=A0pm, "Happy Traveler" <happy_trave...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> My '98 has both an 'average' and 'instantaneous' MPG functions on the
> message center. I believe that they deleted the 'instantaneous' from
later=
> models. If so, your MPG readout shows the average of the last 500 miles
or=
> so. When you hit the reset button, that history is wiped out and it
starts=
> from scratch, doing its best to show what it knows. You go downhill, it
> climbs up; you coast to a light, it goes down. When you ac***ulate
enough
> miles for a short period to not affect the average significantly, it
will =
be
> stable again.
> Incidentally, I found the instantaneous mode quite useful: taught me to
sl=
ow
> down when it dropped to 5 MPG climbing a steep hill at 70 MPH.
>
> "Rob" <robertm****...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >I have a 2004 Explorer Limited (40K miles) with the V8 and AWD.
> > Yesterday while driving my MPG readout in my message center started to
> > change. It was reading a constant 17.2 mpg (I actually got 18.3
> > yesterday) and then in the matter of five minutes it went up to 53 or
> > so. Everytime I pressed the reset button it would jump all over and
> > for a while it seemed like it was responding to throttle position
> > almost like it was a vacuum gage. I know I didn't discover a magical
> > fuel economy fix. Is it screwed up? Any idea what is going on? Is
> > there some secret function to this thing?- Hide quoted text -
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Yeah, I think that's what I did. Thanks for the reply.
Robert
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