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Originally Posted by RazBarlow
...how hard is it to transfer from one vehicle to the other ? Do you have to setup different parameters for each vehicle ?
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Unplugging it from vehicle "A" and plugging it into vehicle "B" will get you 90% of the functionality without any adjustments.
If you want usable MPG numbers, reasonable tank estimates, etc. then you do need to tell it the engine displacement (in tenths of a liter, IIRC), the size of your gas tank, etc. And you'll need to "tweak" its understanding of how frugal the engine is by telling it how many gallons you
really used on at least the first fill.
If you're moving it between the same two (or "n") vehicles on a regular basis (versus a bunch of random ones), once you get the adjustment factors you can write them down. Then it's just a matter of a few quick settings when you move from vehicle to vehicle, because the fine-tuning's already been done.
If I was trying to cover two vehicles, I'd buy a second SG rather than moving one all the time -- they're not all that expensive (worth every penny!), and it's less stressful on the OBDII port and cable than plugging/unplugging all the time. But moving it's really no big deal.
One caution though, I pull mine whenever I leave the car at the dealer (they don't need to know I have a device that can reset codes, bwahaha
) and after one particularly long disconnect my SG lost all its settings for displacement, tank size, etc. No big deal, it just caught me off guard. It retained all the FE data, so no harm done.
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Originally Posted by Minger
And out of curiosity, there isn't a way to get an analogish readout, is there?
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Not with the SG, no; it's a character-based display.
Rick
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