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Haha! I just read some of the comments about other peoples' wives setting their side mirrors so they can see each side of the car. I had to post to say that my wife does the exact same thing and will not do it any other way. I also explained that the real blind spots are not right next to the side of the car, but decided not to press the issue since she was getting defensive about it. I don't know if her being really short has anything to do with it . . .
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Replying to: compensate (Sep 21, 2006 9:41 am)  You need your wife's car, and another one, and an adequate location where this can be set up. Have her set the mirrors as she likes. Then place the 2d car in the blind spot, on both sides,(one at a time of course) and have her get out of the car and see where the 2d one is located. Then set, or have her reset, the mirrors correctly, without moving the 2d car, and let her see again. Maybe even move it again, to show how close it would have to be for her to see it. Explain the "whys" etc very calmly "without raising the voice level". Most of the time I have seen something like this work. We all sometimes just have to see things from another perspective before we change our minds. PS, Short has nothing to do with it. Good Luck.  van
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On my 2006 elantra hatchback, there is a digital readout that supposedly tells me what mileage I am getting per gallon. Having just taken a long trip and used my cruise control as much as possible, I got a reading showing 34 mpg. However when I got the tank filled, I had really only gotten 24.4 mpg. How does this tool work. Is the feedback saying "If you were to drive in this particular condition all the time, you would be getting this kind of mileage" or is it truly supposed to be measuring from fill to fill the kind of mileage you are getting? What is this readout or tool called? I could not find anything in the owner's manual about it but I did not know what term to use to search. Is my "tool" for measuring mpg broken? Thanks for any future input on the question. Ruth
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Replying to: 4ruth (Sep 25, 2006 10:51 am) The other thing I've found with my GT is that with some gas stations, it's very hard to get the tank to within 1-2 gallons of full. Say you fill the tank to click-off at one station and again at the end of your trip, at another station, but put in 2 gallons less than you did originally. That would reduce your calculated mpg but would not affect the calculations from the trip computer, which are based on actual gas used. You should be able to find the trip computer documented in the owner's manual where it talks about the functions of the instrument panel. |
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Replying to: 4ruth (Sep 25, 2006 10:51 am) It's very odd, because the miles to empty feature tends to work rather well, actually. Although, I'll admit, I've never let myself run out of gas just to determine its accuracy.
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Replying to: tsgeisel (Sep 25, 2006 11:33 am) I actually let my "Miles to Empty" get to 0. The funny thing is that when this happened the entire LCD of the trip computer started flashing. I was able to drive another 3 miles or so to a gas station.
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Replying to: spmrebel (Sep 26, 2006 5:13 pm) I figured out the averaging on the computer due to going from week in/week out driving in traffic and seeing 26MPG averages, then doing a highway trip where I calculated a true mileage of 34MPG, but the computer only went up a slight amount. The more highway driving I did, the more the average went up.
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Replying to: jlflemmons (Sep 26, 2006 5:48 pm) I'm not sure why I'm seeing little difference between the mpg meter and at-the-pump mpg numbers. Maybe I got lucky?
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Replying to: backy (Sep 26, 2006 6:10 pm)
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