Reply To: Hyundai Tucson Test Drive Questions

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Glos Guy
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    @kezo Just had a ‘eureka’ moment which may put both of us out of our misery re the petrol usage conundrum 😂 Thanks to JohntheLeg, when I was trying to sort the radio issue I went on the the ‘measurements’ setting to see if there were any clues to why the app is giving dodgy readings (showing the petrol range as km, but the number being the correct miles figure as per the car). It didn’t, BUT I suddenly noticed that the mpg setting was set to miles per gallon US and not miles per gallon U.K. 🫣🙄 Having gone through all the settings myself I can only assume that when scrolling down that menu page I accidentally switched it (I noticed that quite a few times when touching the screen to scroll it’s very easy to inadvertently activate a function).

    Anyhow, this will explain a lot. I toggled between the two with the ‘mpg since reset’ showing in the instrument cluster and the 93.5 mpg jumped up to 111 mpg when switched from US to U.K.  This will mean that my 65 mpg figure the other day would have been a lot higher and therefore the 37 mpg figure too low, exactly as you said (probably around 44 mpg). In my partial defence, my maths were spot on but the figures that I was basing them on were incorrect as they were US 😂 When I refuel next week I would have got accurate results as it’s based on cost per mile, but it explains why you were staggered at the petrol consumption and I was disappointed with it! It hasn’t changed the range figures though as it appears it was only the mpg that was US.

    When I was in the car I went on to the Media screen and ‘Live Dynamic’ can be activated on radio mode (see bottom bar in photo). Range photo also below showing split between petrol and EV, which adds up to the total range in the bottom left reading;