Re: Significant discrepancy between trip computer mpg and actual mpg calculations
What does the dash read? If the dash is consistently much closer to what you calculate, then the issue is in the navi.
Do you use the same gas station/pump? Try the opposite- if you always use the same station, use different ones. If you use different ones, stick with a single one. Do anything to change or identify the source of error.
I misspoke on the last post. The dash gage uses the odometer as distance input; the navi uses GPS. Navi takes a poxition fix every XX fraction of a second and connects the dots and smooths the bumps from fix to fix. Every fix can be off by up to 10 meters- compounding in some cases, averaging out in others. Any satellite dropouts and it has to guess.
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