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Originally Posted by chaunceyjb
How hard is it to set up and configure ScanGuage, at least as far as getting fuel mileage readings? It occurs to me that if it is easy to set up, then we all should be taking a ScanGuage with us before we buy any car. Before you sign on the dotted line, you could take it for a little drive and see what kind of mileage the car really gets. I'm constantly suprised by the wild differences in mileage people get in their cars. I know driving styles amount to some of the difference, but I have a suspicion that some cars have something wrong with them and just don't quite get as good mileage as other identical models coming off the assembly line. I don't know know if it's a problem with sensors, or what, but I've got to believe that it's more than driving styles.
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It's very simple to plug in, but I wouldn't want to judge a car's mileage based on the test drive fuel economy. We got 26mpg per our HCH's computer on the test drive--something that concerned me a little when buying it. Needless to say, the actual mileage has been substantially better than that.
Commuter car, grocery getter, and summer road tripper--average 10k miles per year.
Winter road trips and ski trips, bad weather commuter and my wife's "daily" driver--expected average 4k miles per year.