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

["Cox, Wiley" <Wiley.Cox@glenayre.com>]

I'd have to guess that the sensor that reads gas usage versus speed is
broken.  Oops.

-WileyC


> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Ewan Marshall - Frans Maas Linlithgow
> [SMTP:Ewan.Marshall@UK.Sun.COM]
> Sent:	Friday, December 11, 1998 12:17 PM
> To:	scirocco-l@scirocco.org
> Subject:	RE: What's MFA ? was: [NEW SITE][16v] ROAD TESTS, ETC...
> 
> 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
> 	
> 	-----Original Message-----
> 	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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