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Old 18-10-2018, 07:40 AM   #822
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Default Re: Petrol Price crisis......

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Originally Posted by mick taylor View Post
It would be good to have a button to press to show if the engines is retarding the timing come up on screen when the mapping drops out of true mode, the Gen 3 can drop out anywhere from 2 deg to 4, 6, 8, 10, 12 deg and some just go straight back to 12 deg directly, so if the driver was informed of such then one could have a better handle on if it was crappy fuel directly and make a informed change, in stead of being ignorant of the fact what's going on with the engine, not to mention chewing less fuel and less pollution and all.
If you can use an OBDII reader (I know older vehicles didn't run an OBDII port though) you can get that information shown in the Torque App in a nice realtime graph.
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