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(More customer reviews)I have a soft foot on the gas pedal. My wife, on the other hand, is a leadfoot. I purchased this to provide a constant reminder for her.
It was easy enough to install in my 2010 Toyota Corolla. Plug it in and away we go. Since my wife usually drives during the daytime, I set the brightness to the highest of four settings and placed the gauge on the dashboard directly in front of the driver's seat.
The first problem was obvious immediately - one cannot read the meter in sunlight; the LEDs are not bright enough. I relocated the meter under the dashboard in front of the instrument panel. That location was OK when the sun didn't hit it, but when the sun did, which was about half the time, one could not read it. Sadly, the "constant reminder" wasn't reminding anyone.
The second problem appeared after about two weeks. The "Radial Fuel Efficiency Graph" normally returns to one LED when stopping at a traffic light. However, on occasion it would stop at a higher position, with most of the green LEDs lit. Then as one accelerated, not much, if anything, would happen. This was true whether the A/C was off or on.
On the good side, the unit is well built, easy to use, and all four displays seemed accurate. my Corolla has a factory fuel economy reading, and the Ecometer's displayed mpg was extremely close to the factory mpg. Same for the RPM. If it didn't have a visibility problem I would have been a lot happier with it.
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