RE: What's MFA ? was: [NEW SITE][16v] ROAD TESTS, ETC...

["Neal Tovsen" <ntovsen@piper.hamline.edu>]

Wow! Thanks for the detailed description! That would be pretty cool. I
imagine that retro-fitting it probably requires a bunch of sensors in the
engine bay in addition to the dash/steering column changes. Perhaps not the
best of fun.

Neal

-----Original Message-----
From: TschuessVW@aol.com [mailto:TschuessVW@aol.com]
Sent: Thursday, December 10, 1998 10:06 PM
To: ntovsen@piper.hamline.edu
Subject: Re: What's MFA ? was: [NEW SITE][16v] ROAD TESTS, ETC...


In a message dated 12/10/98 5:17:25 PM Mountain Standard Time,
ntovsen@piper.hamline.edu writes:

<< So, what does it tell you? >>

It has 7 different displays.  The clock as you see on yours, then the first
click brings you to elapsed time, second click is elapsed miles, third click
is (damn can't remember), fourth click is miles per gallon, fourth click is
oil temperature and the sixth click is outside air temperature.  On the
wiper
stalk, there is a switch with a 1 and 2 on it and a button at the end.  The
button selects the function and the 1/2 enables to go to a second set of
memory of the same functions.  Of course oil temp, time and outside air will
show the same number, but the elapsed time, miles and mpg will be different
when hitting the switch.  The 1/2 switch slides to the left for number 1 and
to the right for number 2.  When slid and held for couple seconds, the MFA
will reset for that number and the other set will remain the same.  So if
you
were going on a long trip and wanted to see how much mpg you got during the
trip, you could reset number 2 and just leave it alone.  At the end of your
trip just slide the switch over to number 2 and it will give the average
numbers all the way back to when you reset it last. You could use number 1
for
checking values at any given moment.  It's interesting to see what kind of
mpg
the car is getting at certain moments.  Like going down a hill, coasting in
neutral, slide the switch over and hold, release it and it will read 99.9
mpg.
:-)

Unfortunately, I don't have an MFA in the Scirocco, but the GTI VR6 has it.
I
use it quite often.   Sometimes I use to track gas mileage each gas tank
too.
It's actually quite accurate compared to figuring out on my own.

-Mike


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