I was inspired by an earlier thread on lack of oil temperature indication, to check that all the features of my instrument panel were switched on.

 One unknown option was entitled 'Convenience consumers' Unhelpful eh?

Seems to only show the fuel consumption relating to air conditioning in gallons per hour. And not electrical consumption or oil usage or usage of any other conveniences.

I checked the box and to quote from the owners manual
There, the total consumption of all consumer comfort in l / h is displayed.

 

Edited 3 January, 20188 yr by gregoir
Convenience

Yeah that’s all it does. If you have the A/C on, heated seats and screens etc on it tells you and gives you litres per hour fuel usage which is a pretty abstract figure.

 

I have all mine enabled but never heard or seen anything to do with the Eco tips.

Thanks for the additional information. Don't have heated seats but I'll check on the effect of using lights, heated rear window , heated door mirrors etc..

Don’t think headlights come up, but mirror heating and rear screen comes up.

I performed a couple of experiments today.

I did have convenience consumers turned on already and was aware that when the aircon is turned on ( mine is the standard aircon not the climate control version) then it showed a simple bar graph showing about 0.4L/hour consumption.

Fair enough as I know that when idling my instant consumption shows about 0.5L/hour and when I turn on the aircon the consumption will initially rise to 1.0L/hour, then fall back to 0.8L/hour, and then as the aircon cooler matrix reaches its operating temperature (somewhere just above freezing) then the display varies between 0.5L/hour and 0.8L.hour as the aircon cuts in and out.

 

Today's experiment was going down a long steep hill in gear so using no petrol at all, with the aircon on. The convenience display still showed the 0.4L/hour consumption and the actual instant consumption display showed 0.0L/100.

 

So the convenience consumption display is pretty simplistic and does not show real consumption.