Dumb newbie question - MPG display in Leon

[Athers99]

Hi,

Apologies in advance for this stupid question, but I am stumped here.

I am trying to display my average mpg on my 58plate Leon Emocion 1.9tdi I picked up last week.

I looked in the Seat manual and it states that on the windscreen wiper stalk, there should be a button on the bottom of this which should change your display from trip to mpg.

I have no such button on my stalk and all I can see displayed is trip, total mileage and temp.

If I hold the reset button in, the total mileage changes to mileage until next service, but that's it.



Athers

 

[betty_swollox]

Hi,

Apologies in advance for this stupid question, but I am stumped here.

I am trying to display my average mpg on my 58plate Leon Emocion 1.9tdi I picked up last week.

I looked in the Seat manual and it states that on the windscreen wiper stalk, there should be a button on the bottom of this which should change your display from trip to mpg.

I have no such button on my stalk and all I can see displayed is trip, total mileage and temp.

If I hold the reset button in, the total mileage changes to mileage until next service, but that's it.



Athers

Can't help ya there mate sorry!

 

[GainfulShrimp]

I believe your car might not have all the options if it's only got the small MFD rather than the large one. Does your digital MFD display appear underneath the temp and fuel guages, or is it a larger screen in between the two guages?

If it's just the half-height version, the options are more limited. I have a facelift (>2010) car with large MFD and my stalk has the button that you mention.

Hopefully someone with a small MFD will be able to help (or confirm that you don't have an mpg option).

As a potential alternative, I've been using an iPhone app called Road Trip which works very well. Every time you fill up, you enter the odometer reading, price per litre and number of litres (the app adds fields for date/time and optionally GPS location). Then it automagically works out your average mpg for the tankful and gives you all sorts of useful statistics about your usage over time. You can even put your servicing and other costs into it, and it'll give you a monthly and yearly breakdown of your total costs (if you want to scare yourself, that is!).
I think it's a great little app and because it works out your average consumption using the odometer mileage vs amount of fuel actually paid for, it's more accurate than the trip computer...

 

[Hugo Nebula]

IIRC on the pre-facelift models there is a rocker switch on the stalk that cycles through instantaneous & average mpg, average speed and something else I've forgotten. There is a little button on the underside of the stalk. If you press it once, it switches between the averages for the trip (which automatically resets after two hours of turning off the ignition) and longer sessions (upto 1,000 miles). Press and hold this button, and it will reset the particular mode you're in.

 

[coggie]

If you have the small MFD, as shown in my pic then you may have the switch on the end of the wiper stalk.

This switch will scroll though the options, time, temp, trip mileage, average speed, miles to empty, trip mpg, instant mpg and journey time.

When you look at trip mileage, average speed, trip mpg and time you can press the switch on the underside of the stalk. This will show the #2 / long term stats, which reset after 99h59m as far as I know.

 

[LeonCR]

iirc not all of them had it, most did thou

 

[Athers99]

If you have the small MFD, as shown in my pic then you may have the switch on the end of the wiper stalk.

This switch will scroll though the options, time, temp, trip mileage, average speed, miles to empty, trip mpg, instant mpg and journey time.

When you look at trip mileage, average speed, trip mpg and time you can press the switch on the underside of the stalk. This will show the #2 / long term stats, which reset after 99h59m as far as I know.

Yes I have a small display like yours shown Coggie, but can only see the time where yours shows the mpg.

I have no switch on the end of the wiper stalk, just a switch on the top to adjust speed of the wipers I think.

Wow, totally gobsmacked that it doesn't seem to have this simple thing on a car which is not that old (3 years).

Think it was mid 90s since I had a car that didn't display mpg. Thought these days all cars had this as standard, surely can't be that expensive for a manufacturer to put on all of their cars, esp diesels when this is the main reason why people by them (fuel economy).

Thanks for all of your help anyway.

Guess I will just have to work out my mpg the old skool way by seeing how much I get out of a full tank and then doing the math.

 

[Wimbledonian]

Just looked in the manual. Yours must be the 'Display without warning or information texts'. As you say, it is just a clock, distance/service interval, and trip. That's it. No changee.

 

[kazand]

Yes I have a small display like yours shown Coggie, but can only see the time where yours shows the mpg.

I have no switch on the end of the wiper stalk, just a switch on the top to adjust speed of the wipers I think.

Wow, totally gobsmacked that it doesn't seem to have this simple thing on a car which is not that old (3 years).

Think it was mid 90s since I had a car that didn't display mpg. Thought these days all cars had this as standard, surely can't be that expensive for a manufacturer to put on all of their cars, esp diesels when this is the main reason why people by them (fuel economy).

Thanks for all of your help anyway.

Guess I will just have to work out my mpg the old skool way by seeing how much I get out of a full tank and then doing the math.

got trip comp on me 08 trafic sport .... sport. on a van. ffs!