RE: What's MFA ? was: [NEW SITE][16v] ROAD TESTS, ETC...

[Ewan Marshall - Frans Maas Linlithgow <Ewan.Marshall@UK.Sun.COM>]

My average MPG is always at 99.9 (except when I first start the car it reads
0 then quickly counts up to, and stays at 99.9).
Does anyone know why this may happen?

Cheers,

	Ewen.
	

	From: "Neal Tovsen" <ntovsen@piper.hamline.edu>
	To: <TschuessVW@aol.com>, "Scirocco-L (E-mail)" 
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	Subject: RE: What's MFA ? was: [NEW SITE][16v] ROAD TESTS, ETC...
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	Wow! Thanks for the detailed description! That would be pretty cool. I
	imagine that retro-fitting it probably requires a bunch of sensors in 
the
	engine bay in addition to the dash/steering column changes. Perhaps not 
the
	best of fun.
	
	Neal
	
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	From: TschuessVW@aol.com [mailto:TschuessVW@aol.com]
	Sent: Thursday, December 10, 1998 10:06 PM
	To: ntovsen@piper.hamline.edu
	Subject: Re: What's MFA ? was: [NEW SITE][16v] ROAD TESTS, ETC...
	
	
	In a message dated 12/10/98 5:17:25 PM Mountain Standard Time,
	ntovsen@piper.hamline.edu writes:
	
	<< So, what does it tell you? >>
	
	It has 7 different displays.  The clock as you see on yours, then the 
first
	click brings you to elapsed time, second click is elapsed miles, third 
click
	is (damn can't remember), fourth click is miles per gallon, fourth click 
is
	oil temperature and the sixth click is outside air temperature.  On the
	wiper
	stalk, there is a switch with a 1 and 2 on it and a button at the end.  
The
	button selects the function and the 1/2 enables to go to a second set of
	memory of the same functions.  Of course oil temp, time and outside air 
will
	show the same number, but the elapsed time, miles and mpg will be 
different
	when hitting the switch.  The 1/2 switch slides to the left for number 1 
and
	to the right for number 2.  When slid and held for couple seconds, the 
MFA
	will reset for that number and the other set will remain the same.  So 
if
	you
	were going on a long trip and wanted to see how much mpg you got during 
the
	trip, you could reset number 2 and just leave it alone.  At the end of 
your
	trip just slide the switch over to number 2 and it will give the average
	numbers all the way back to when you reset it last. You could use number 
1
	for
	checking values at any given moment.  It's interesting to see what kind 
of
	mpg
	the car is getting at certain moments.  Like going down a hill, coasting 
in
	neutral, slide the switch over and hold, release it and it will read 
99.9
	mpg.
	:-)
	
	Unfortunately, I don't have an MFA in the Scirocco, but the GTI VR6 has 
it.
	I
	use it quite often.   Sometimes I use to track gas mileage each gas tank
	too.
	It's actually quite accurate compared to figuring out on my own.
	
	-Mike
	
	
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