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Originally Posted by Skid Row Joe
Jim,
Although it certainly is, keep in mind that indicates that day's ONLY, cumulative engine hour meter, mpg & average speed re-cap only....... Hence, it's only a snapshot of your day trip.
There's also a; cumulative hour meter, average mpg meter, and average mph meter readings since last reset available on the CDI. Here's what mine looks like since last reset on my CDI, captioned below:
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Yup, I'm familiar with all that; I've had many MBs with that feature. It's common across the late 210, 203, and 211 model lines. If you want to see depressing numbers, I'll post up a shot of my E55 after driving it to work during rush hour.
When we purchased my wife's bluetec the cumulative counter had never been reset, it had the same number of miles as the odometer - 45K. The car apparently saw a lot of highway commuting as the average speed was showing 38 or 39 MPH. Cumulative fuel economy was a few tenths below 30MPG - 29.8 is the number I recall.
The bluetec doesn't seem able to match the MPG numbers you-all post up from the CDIs, but it isn't shabby either.