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Old 02-10-2008, 03:00 PM
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Default Re: Scangauge: How does it help?

Those are some of my fav's also.

Except for load. I find load useless in a Hybrid with a CVT.

With a CVT, the car purposely tries to keep the ICE at near maximum load.
In the Escape, unless I'm not moving... my ICE is always in the 80% to 99% range, no matter my speed or pedal pressure.

If the demand for HP goes down, since the road slopes down for example, then RPM's go down, even if wheel speed goes up, hence the LOAD stays above 80% because that is where engineers have found it is most fuel efficient.

So I'm curious what you get out of watching load... in my car, I think it is pretty useless. -John

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