Scanguage and KISS

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Originally Posted by talnlnky

because the sensor for the tank that tells how much gas you have doesn't run through the OBDII computer system.

Thanks for the info! Not a big deal I suppose having to push a couple of scangauge buttons every time I fillup, but it seems dumb for them to not have the computer earn it's keep at every opportunity.

Getting away from KISS here but I had a little time today so I actually read most of the scangauge manual. I'm probably the last one to discover this but it's easy to set it up so you can have trip and/or tank mpg available while in "gauges" mode.

In case it helps anyone...

Turn to page 24 in the manual and just do what it says and pay particular attention to the page 28 section "Displaying a Trip Value as an XGAUGE". I used code 01 and created an xgauge I labeled TDY for today's mpg and code 04 for another xgauge I labeled TNK for tank mpg and now they're available just like the built-in codes when in gauges mode. If that doesn't make sense let me know and I'll try to better explain it.

Now in gauges mode I'm looking at RPM, FWT, TDY & TNK. Or maybe RPM, MPG, TDY & TNK, I can't decide - wish I could display 5 or 6.