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Old May 21, 2008 | 8:30 am
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Originally Posted by kcnwa
When I picked up my S60 last week, the trip computer said 504 miles to go, I drove 100 miles mixed city/highway and when I turned it in, it said 250 miles to go. Trip computer was way off. I know it goes off avg fuel econ, which didn't appear to move all that much when I had it.
Could be that there were a lot of highway miles put on your car. Mine read ~460 to go on a full tank. I reset the trip computer when I got the car, so the mileage I reported should be accurate. When I was on the road, it seemed to track OK with my actual driving.
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