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Posted: Sun Jul 17, 2005 11:57 am 
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hahah my trip computer in my ED don't work, range prob cos im running a EL ECU, range is always about 150kw and int fuel is about 60l p/100pkh lol

but the clock and date works :)
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Posted: Mon Jul 18, 2005 1:51 am 
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Ok mine on my EL has all of a sudden started showing 0 klms to empty even thou I have a 1/2 full tank. How do I fix this problem. I have reset the average klms and average fuel use but same deal. It startled the crap out of me this morning by beeping at me

Any help would be great
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Posted: Mon Jul 18, 2005 10:41 am 
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waverunner wrote:
Ok mine on my EL has all of a sudden started showing 0 klms to empty even thou I have a 1/2 full tank. How do I fix this problem. I have reset the average klms and average fuel use but same deal. It startled the crap out of me this morning by beeping at me

Any help would be great


disconnect the battery, leave it for an hour, and re-connect. This will reset the ECU, and reset the DTE to 500km. It will then start accumulating and calculating data from that point.

NOTE if you reset the Ave L/100km on the trip computer, this does NOT affect the DTE's calculation. The DTE is determined from accumulated data and cannot be reset without disconnecting the battery, (unless there is a pin you can gap to reset it??? anyone?)
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Posted: Mon Jul 18, 2005 12:35 pm 
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96ghia wrote:
waverunner wrote:
Ok mine on my EL has all of a sudden started showing 0 klms to empty even thou I have a 1/2 full tank. How do I fix this problem. I have reset the average klms and average fuel use but same deal. It startled the crap out of me this morning by beeping at me

Any help would be great


disconnect the battery, leave it for an hour, and re-connect. This will reset the ECU, and reset the DTE to 500km. It will then start accumulating and calculating data from that point.

NOTE if you reset the Ave L/100km on the trip computer, this does NOT affect the DTE's calculation. The DTE is determined from accumulated data and cannot be reset without disconnecting the battery, (unless there is a pin you can gap to reset it??? anyone?)
Or disocnnecting the trip computer from the data line to the cluster
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Posted: Mon Jul 18, 2005 8:28 pm 
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ok will try over the weekend and well let ya all know
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Posted: Sat Jul 23, 2005 10:00 am 
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Mines pretty accurate, took my old NA Fairlane computer down to 19. One time I did 680 kms on the highway and had 25 left on the "Range" as the fuel gauge was buried in the red section.

NL fairlane is pretty good as well, best touring range was 750 kms. Ran the "Range" down to 20.

 

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Posted: Sat Jul 23, 2005 8:48 pm 
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Driving in bosses AU today DTE read 0 and we got about 15-20km more out of it.
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