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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.
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