On ‎09‎/‎10‎/‎2018 at 11:53, JohnnyType2 said:

 

took me a while to let go of my  the Nokia 7310 too!  i dont understand you want mpg but no you don't want your average mpg? what does the maxidot reading show us? the instant reading is the most inaccurate reading on the mdot?

J.R. thats an expert bit of trolling, im proud of you. but I think you have put your decimal in the wrong place on your pad and paper or perhaps your 20 year old Texas Instruments calculator isn't functioning correctly? I always brim to brim fill and for the first few fills i measured and calculated manually and on another app to compare and they were all bang on. I could be really rude using names like luddite but i wont. Most of us dont have the time to sit down with our newspaper and mug of tea and pencil/paper so convenience and accuracy will win everytime as we live in a world driven by technology calling an app user 'notsosmart' is just daft or trolling.

the point is... that your maxidot will Never be anywhere near accurate, its too dependant on alot of external factors and calibration. 

CONFIRMED LUDDITE here then. Still use fuel receipts, paper, ballpoint pen and calculator, even though when I did my school exams calculators were banned as brain was deemed more important than technology. How times have changed in the last 38 years.Still using an I phone 4 which is the second mobile I've owned in the last 20 Years LOL.

Writing the mileage and amount of fuel down on a notepad is much easier than typing them into a phone app. And the calculation only takes 10 seconds with a calculator.

3 minutes ago, Rodge said:

Writing the mileage and amount of fuel down on a notepad is much easier than typing them into a phone app. And the calculation only takes 10 seconds with a calculator.

Takes me a bit longer than 10 seconds as I like to wait 3/4,000 miles to compare it to the LONG TERM onboard computer to gauge its accuracy or not.

2.0 tdi 150hp. Mine does all the time 0.2-0.3l/100 km. When the ECU calculate consumption between 4 and 5 l / 100 km.

Which is 4-5% delta.

 

Either calibration of ECU or fuel stations do tricks in this range...

On 09/10/2018 at 12:53, JohnnyType2 said:

 

J.R. thats an expert bit of trolling, im proud of you. but I think you have put your decimal in the wrong place on your pad and paper or perhaps your 20 year old Texas Instruments calculator isn't functioning correctly? I always brim to brim fill and for the first few fills i measured and calculated manually and on another app to compare and they were all bang on. I could be really rude using names like luddite but i wont. Most of us dont have the time to sit down with our newspaper and mug of tea and pencil/paper so convenience and accuracy will win everytime as we live in a world driven by technology calling an app user 'notsosmart' is just daft or trolling.

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Thanks for the compliment! I had zero education in English and grammar and have been speaking French 100% of the time since 2005 but what I meant was that the smartphones are not so smart and not their users, I have read it through again but still dont know if I expressed it correctly or not, in any case I was only having a bit of fun and would be proud to be called a luddite, I would not take it as being rude, its the truth!

 

I dont use pencil/paper or a calculator (and mine is older than the one you spoke of! - circa 1982) but do the mpg calculations by mental arithmatic, it keeps my fuzzy brain working!

 

In any case my tongue in cheek comments were the result of my misunderstanding the MPG figures given by the app thingy not realising that they spoke of US gallons so I apologise to the 99.9999% non luddite part of the population that I incorrectly maligned!

Edited 10 October, 20187 yr by J.R.

4 minutes ago, J.R. said:

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Thanks for the compliment! I had zero education in English and grammar and have been speaking French 100% of the time since 2005 but what I meant was that the smartphones are not so smart and not their users, I have read it through again but still dont know if I expressed it correctly or not, in any case I was only having a bit of fun and would be proud to be called a luddite, I would not take it as being rude, its the truth!

 

I dont use pencil/paper or a calculator (and mine is older than the one you spoke of!) but do the mpg calculations by mental arithmatic, it keeps my fuzzy brain working!

Looks like retirement is beckoning me to France then. Only 13 years to go. LUDDITES are the NEW COOL!

Edited 10 October, 20187 yr by shyVRS245
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I am not retired but have simply worked out how to do so little for my income that I have all the time in the world to sit down with a newspaper and expresso or to spend far more time  working out a mpg calculation or my average running speed in my head than using a calculator and getting it wrong often enough!

20 minutes ago, J.R. said:

I am not retired but have simply worked out how to do so little for my income that I have all the time in the world to sit down with a newspaper and expresso or to spend far more time  working out a mpg calculation or my average running speed in my head than using a calculator and getting it wrong often enough!

Love to swap with you currently averaging 66 hours a week at work. Wife will forget what I look like soon.

3 hours ago, shyVRS245 said:

Looks like retirement is beckoning me to France then. Only 13 years to go. LUDDITES are the NEW COOL!

ok so something lost in translation i think? ill get the pipe and slippers out   no offence meant and none taken i hope?