Any way to calibrate the AC thermostat and fuel economy meter?

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chairmankaga
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My AC thermostat is consistently about 4 degrees cooler than actual. It's not a real problem, I just set it at 76 and I'm fine, but I was wondering if there was any way to calibrate it a bit to be set at actual ambient.

I also noticed that my on-board fuel economy numbers are about 2 MPG lower than what DashCommand and Gas Cubby report. The car says 16.4 MPG pretty consistently, but using basic math in Gas Cubby and whatever voodoo Dash Command uses via my OBD scanner, I'm reading an actual average of 18.2 MPG. Again, not a big problem but I was again curious if there was any software calibration buried in one of those secret diagnostic menus that could fix it.


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You will also find that the outside temp display is also off. These gizmos are never 100% accurate. Seems silly that people can actually live in space stations, but we cannot get these controls to provide accurate readings. To my knowledge, there is no fix for this but as you said it's really no big deal. I set my desired temp to 72 and I'm comfy - regardless of whichever temp the interior actually reads. As for the mpg, the voodoo the car system uses is probably different than that used at Gas Cubby, etc. It may be possible to make those two match due to different programming in each.


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