How to make my truck show MPG figures in real time??

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Apr 12, 2008 | 12:10 AM

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Originally Posted by NO F-BDY BS

Yeah, you can do that, I would just like to see how it fluctuates while pulling a trailer in real time.

Also, I found out that they stopped that option on the 06's.

Probably after some 2500HD owners with the 6.0 had a heart attack after seeing what that joker sucks going up a hill pulling 5klbs.

so they stoped that option then started it agian in 07? why would they do that?

Apr 12, 2008 | 09:45 PM

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so they stoped that option then started it agian in 07? why would they do that?

Cause its GM.... They're a little retarded sometimes....
I noticed it first when I drove my cousin's 06 silverado and it didn't have that option, but my 03 sierra does.... Its kinda stupid that they would go through the trouble of deleting a useful feature for no good reason....

Apr 12, 2008 | 11:29 PM

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It might be something that the GMC's have and not the Chevy's, you know how that goes......

Apr 12, 2008 | 11:31 PM

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Originally Posted by THE-HOE

i always wondered, if the trucks that dont have this function, are actually wired for it, and are just not included. (example would be like, the trucks without the tranny temp guages are wired for it, just dont have it..) thus meaning, if you replace wherever your MPG readout is, with one out of a truck that does have it. it would work? sorry if this dosnt make sence..

So what I get from this is, if I put gauges out of a SSS in my 05 Z, the trans temp gauge in the cluster will already be wired in my truck?????? Si/No, or am I just confused????

Apr 13, 2008 | 12:57 AM

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So what I get from this is, if I put gauges out of a SSS in my 05 Z, the trans temp gauge in the cluster will already be wired in my truck?????? Si/No, or am I just confused????

I'm pretty sure that is the case.... I read somewhere that all these trucks have the whole trans temp circuit there. I guess gm excluded the gauge from the clusters of the lower-end trucks to save about 5 bucks per truck built, or maybe to trick people into thinking that the higher-end trucks are actually better-equipped than the lesser trucks...