Tim
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On Saturday, April 2, 2016 at 9:49:29 AM UTC-5, Keyser Söze wrote:
...followed me home. Only took me an hour to partially figure out the
"bluetooth."

http://tinyurl.com/j4ehg5z

"Nice truck, Harry. You gonna get a camper now?"


Camper? Harry could get a custom tent that fits the bed area. If the box was longer, a cap could make a good sleeping area.

On Sat, 02 Apr 2016 18:38:49 -0400, Keine Keyserscheiße
wrote:

On Sat, 02 Apr 2016 17:34:49 -0400, wrote:

On Sat, 2 Apr 2016 13:30:04 -0400, Keyser Söze wrote:

On 4/2/16 1:15 PM, wrote:
but the one time I had it up to 65
mph, the mpg indicator went up to 27 mpg in sixth gear. I don't know how
accurate that sort of thingie is, though.

What was it when you put your foot back on the gas? ;-)



I'll try it and pay closer attention. I think it indicated about 9 mpg
when I started accelerating from a dead stop in first gear. There's so
many "devices" that I haven't gotten used to on this truck, I'm pretty
busy just keeping it on the road. The "nav" feature is pretty good, but
I have yet to figure out how to get it to shut up.

I know what you mean. I hate the nav, particularly when I know where I
am. It is just another distraction.
I did use it in Michigan but I cranked the volume way down. It mutes
the sound system so I knew when it was trying to tell me something. I
pretty much knew where I was going so it was really just prompting me
to the next turn.
The MPG thing is fun to play with for a while. I had it in my old 86
Chrysler LeBaron. After a while I just selected another display. It
was fun on the skyway bridge, getting it to peg at 99 MPG coasting
down the back side.
You just have to be careful and not be "playing with your DIC" (Driver
Information Center) and run into the back of a truck.
I think they are every bit as distracting as talking on the phone.

I use a Garmin for nav. The GM nav is in the low center of the dash, making me take
eyes well off the road to see. Besides, it was last updated in 2009, and I'm too
cheap to spend the $180, or whatever, to get a new DVD.

I really am not sure why I would need a nav system.
I am not likely to get lost anywhere in SW Florida.
If I am going anywhere that I am not familiar with, my wife is there
and one woman telling me what to do is plenty.

If I really did get a nav system I would want the voice to be Samuel L
Jackson.
"The MF turn is comin up on the right"

"OK you missed it m fkr. Turn this mf'n car around right now or I will
bust a cap in yo ass"

On 4/2/2016 6:42 PM, Keine Keyserschei�e wrote:
On Sat, 02 Apr 2016 17:36:41 -0400, wrote:

On Sat, 02 Apr 2016 13:52:11 -0400, Keine Keyserscheiße
wrote:

There may be an 'instantaneous' and an 'average' which you have to designate.
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The ones I have seen do both in separate displays. When we are
renting, I usually put it on "miles to empty". That is the one you
really need to watch out west when stations are few and far between.

Yeah, I push the button again to get 'range'. It's pretty accurate, but it's based on
the current mileage, not the old average. Sometimes, if I'm pulling the trailer, the
range may be 200 miles. Then I'll drop off the trailer and after a few miles the
range will increase. Weird, but it makes sense.
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On Saturday, April 2, 2016 at 6:42:16 PM UTC-5, Keyser Söze wrote:
Tim wrote:
On Saturday, April 2, 2016 at 9:49:29 AM UTC-5, Keyser Söze wrote:
...followed me home. Only took me an hour to partially figure out the
"bluetooth."

http://tinyurl.com/j4ehg5z

Nice truck, Harry. You gonna get a camper now?


Why would I do that?

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just asked...

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On Sat, 02 Apr 2016 13:52:11 -0400, Keine Keyserscheiße
wrote:

There may be an 'instantaneous' and an 'average' which you have to designate.
--

The ones I have seen do both in separate displays. When we are
renting, I usually put it on "miles to empty". That is the one you
really need to watch out west when stations are few and far between.


What I leave the wife's on. My truck I look at the gas grave.

Keine Keyserscheiße wrote:
On Sat, 02 Apr 2016 15:36:52 -0500, Califbill wrote:

John H. wrote:
On Saturday, April 2, 2016 at 1:57:06 PM UTC-4, Keyser Söze wrote:
On 4/2/16 1:52 PM, Keine Keyserschei?e wrote:
On Sat, 2 Apr 2016 13:30:04 -0400, Keyser Söze wrote:

On 4/2/16 1:15 PM, wrote:
On Sat, 2 Apr 2016 11:12:20 -0400, Keyser Söze wrote:

On 4/2/16 11:06 AM, True North wrote:
On Saturday, 2 April 2016 11:49:29 UTC-3, Keyser Söze wrote:
...followed me home. Only took me an hour to partially figure out the
"bluetooth."

http://tinyurl.com/j4ehg5z

Pretty truck. Hope the seats are comfortable enough. Only negative
thing I remember reading in the Consumer Report review. They said
the same thing about the seats in my 2006 Ford Ranger pickup...and
they were right. Guy around the corner had a jacked up one same
colour as my RAV4..Mica something (brown)



The seats are ok...for a truck. Surprisingly, all the adjustments
you can make are made manually...no "power seats" That was a bummer,
but mostly everything else is pretty neat. I'm "averaging" 21 mpg for
the suburban driving around here, but the one time I had it up to 65
mph, the mpg indicator went up to 27 mpg in sixth gear. I don't know how
accurate that sort of thingie is, though.

What was it when you put your foot back on the gas? ;-)



I'll try it and pay closer attention. I think it indicated about 9 mpg
when I started accelerating from a dead stop in first gear. There's so
many "devices" that I haven't gotten used to on this truck, I'm pretty
busy just keeping it on the road. The "nav" feature is pretty good, but
I have yet to figure out how to get it to shut up.

There may be an 'instantaneous' and an 'average' which you have to designate.
--

There's a "tank" average and an instant average, but I haven't put more
than 100 miles on the truck, so all I really have is the instant reading.

On the Silverado the 'average' covers all the miles since I last reset it.


You can get average and I stand average. Total average, and then personnel
and business averages. I use those for tank and trip ever ages.

Not sure what you mean. I can get only one average mpg on mine, unless I reset it for
each trip, which I've done just to see what the interstate mpg is, between 22 and 23
mpg.
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You can get milage for a personnel trip or a business on mine. Easy to
reset on each tankful. The 2nd level of display, has total miles, instant
milage and ave milage.

On Sat, 2 Apr 2016 19:20:56 -0700 (PDT), Tim
wrote:

On Saturday, April 2, 2016 at 6:42:16 PM UTC-5, Keyser Söze wrote:
Tim wrote:
On Saturday, April 2, 2016 at 9:49:29 AM UTC-5, Keyser Söze wrote:
...followed me home. Only took me an hour to partially figure out the
"bluetooth."

http://tinyurl.com/j4ehg5z

Nice truck, Harry. You gonna get a camper now?


Why would I do that?

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just asked...

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He said he had some sort of trailer, enough to reduce his gas mileage.

On Sat, 02 Apr 2016 22:09:09 -0500, Califbill
wrote:

wrote:
On Sat, 02 Apr 2016 13:52:11 -0400, Keine Keyserscheiße
wrote:

There may be an 'instantaneous' and an 'average' which you have to designate.
--

The ones I have seen do both in separate displays. When we are
renting, I usually put it on "miles to empty". That is the one you
really need to watch out west when stations are few and far between.


What I leave the wife's on. My truck I look at the gas grave.

My wife believes that "miles to empty" is gospel and she gets it down
to single digits some time before she will stop for gas.
She just says she knows I have 20 gallons or more in the shed all the
time and I will come fuel her up if she needs it. So far it has not
happened,

On Sat, 2 Apr 2016 16:45:30 -0700 (PDT), True North wrote:

Tim
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On Saturday, April 2, 2016 at 9:49:29 AM UTC-5, Keyser Söze wrote:
...followed me home. Only took me an hour to partially figure out the
"bluetooth."

http://tinyurl.com/j4ehg5z

"Nice truck, Harry. You gonna get a camper now?"


Camper? Harry could get a custom tent that fits the bed area. If the box was longer, a cap could make a good sleeping area.

Maybe Tim's question was based on Harry's 'following the lead' with so many of his
purchases, e.g. cameras, guns, boats, pickups, and next, maybe, a trailer. Shoot,
with the V6 that thing is rated for about 6800 lbs towing capacity. Some pretty nice
trailers fall well within that capacity.
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On Sat, 02 Apr 2016 23:46:08 -0400, wrote:

On Sat, 02 Apr 2016 22:09:09 -0500, Califbill
wrote:

wrote:
On Sat, 02 Apr 2016 13:52:11 -0400, Keine Keyserscheiße
wrote:

There may be an 'instantaneous' and an 'average' which you have to designate.
--

The ones I have seen do both in separate displays. When we are
renting, I usually put it on "miles to empty". That is the one you
really need to watch out west when stations are few and far between.


What I leave the wife's on. My truck I look at the gas grave.

My wife believes that "miles to empty" is gospel and she gets it down
to single digits some time before she will stop for gas.
She just says she knows I have 20 gallons or more in the shed all the
time and I will come fuel her up if she needs it. So far it has not
happened,

Look at the money she's saving by not toting all that extra gas around.
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