Option so there no need for a full tank
This may be an unusual request. I think the app is brilliant but as I never fill my tank i am unable to keep a record of the fuel efficiency over time. I use the odometer reading when the fuel low warning light comes on as a reference for the trip distance. So if I had the option to use the mileage travelled between fill-ups to calculate the miles/gallon for the previous refueling that would be perfect. I hope that this may be useful for others as well.
Implemented in My Cars 1.8.0 → http://goo.gl/LMgtD
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Admindavag (Admin, davagdroid) commented
The feature is available in My Cars 1.8.0 -> http://goo.gl/LMgtD
Please note I only implemented the fuel gauge use case, and I still have to handle those use cases in charts and improve also the use case in the statistics.
Please give me feedback once you use it so that I can improve it and fix bugs
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Admindavag (Admin, davagdroid) commented
I quite like the idea of a fuel gauge :-)
This is indeed something that I will consider. I might actually start to investigate solutions for partial refuels for the next release. As even though there are only 11 votes, I receive regularly emails about it.
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A commented
How about an input graphic for fuel gauge position when partial fillip is selected? Users could also select whether the fuel gauge position entered was for before or after the fillup. With this information and fuel tank size a quite accurate fuel consumption figure could be calculated. It would only be as accurate as the car's fuel gauge but if users regularly fill up at the same fuel gauge level it would be quite accurate. I suggest that this would be very useful for many people. Displaying a tilde (~) by these figures could also show that they are approximated.
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Admindavag (Admin, davagdroid) commented
OK... the problem would indeed be a possibly totaly unprecise computation. I will think about a possible solution.
One of them could be to display those partial refuels with a tild. For instance ~ 10 l/100km
And maybe to add a specific section for that purpose on the global stats.
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archagel commented
No, as I understood PDG2000 never fills the full tank on refuels, so he is unable to get fuel efficiency values as MyCars calculates them only between full tank refuels. Of course currently implemented method is most precise, but there are a lot of people I know, who never fill full tank.
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Admindavag (Admin, davagdroid) commented
Not sure I understood what you want.
Do you mean that you would like to use the trip distance instead of the odo reading when you do a fill-up (or a partial fill-up)?
If yes it's possible already. In the preferences it's the first option. Nonetheless you can also change the mode odo/trip in the refuel screen. Just press on the button linked to the distance, and My cars will switch readings from odo to trip.
Have I really answered your question?