My New Web App

[Darkness Productions]

I'm working on a new webapp, which is currently in limited beta. Anyone who is interested in fuel economy, I would ask you to sign up. It's fairly simple, and if you have any questions, feel free to let me know.

http://mymiler.com

Thanks again!

[Digital Parasite]

You have been doing this for a while, no? Good to see it has its own home now. Who is the dude with th Porsche... ;-)

Your "blog" links to http://gms8994.tumblr.com/ which doesn't seem to exist.

When you first register it asks for your prefs and the button says, "edit prefs". That confused me since I thought I was already doing that, maybe change to "save" instead of "edit" there?

For economy it doesn't list the units, I'm guess MPG for non-metric units but what are you using for metric? The current Pontiac entry is showing 32.118 but in metric it says 13.655 which doesn't make sense to me. Th standard metric measure for economy is L/100km (litres of gas to drive 100km) so that should be showing 7.323 L/100km. To play with that you can use Google (32.118 mpg in L/100km).

[LAURENU2]

you don't want me there I ha ve a Lead foot I only get 6 to 8 Mpg:beep:

[Helix_Von_Smelix]

Not for us in the UK i see.

I have a company car, Ford Mondeo and get 50+ (UK) MPG. Next company car is a Toyota Prius, my choice!! Half the company car tax, and better tax free fuel payment.

:cheers:

edit: should point out the ford is a diesel, but you knew that!

[Shish]

I run a Citroen Grand C4 Exclusive 2ltr diesel with the electro/hydraulic auto/manual shift and me and the family love it. Big comfortable barge but the gearshifting needs some help from the paddles. Doesn't bother me as I have been used to this type of box since Wilson pre-selectors were around and it doesn't knock the consumption down like a full auto. So, fully loaded, round the doors and town it's about 38/39 UK mpg and ten more on a 250 mile round trip. 7 full seats and loads of combinations for carrying people and big goods. Already been used to move one of the boys from Bolton to next the Metro Centre, full flat in 3 trips. Tried the 1.6/110hp but it was struggling and though it was 5mpg better empty it lost out full because it needed big boots. Air suspenders make it much more comfortable than the shorter wheelbase 5 seat and consumption ain't much different.
Probably off the topic a bit but this is the first car I've liked from day one in many years and as it's private not company and I'm mostly disabled nowadays it suits me down to the ground and fills a lot of my needs that mean most to me in a car.
This nearly turned into a long term test so definitely a bit wide of the mark. Sorry if it is but I'm in email complaints mode today and need to get some accurate points over to some government depts. Not an easy task at the best of times but I'm stubborn/obstinate but nice until I get my own way :jabber::cheers: Could have done with some of our smilies for the mails but have to do all in plain text to get past their censor systems.:Pokes::lmao:

[Bok]

Fuel consumption sucks in the US. Same cars, half the mpg most likely...Blame the oil companies and lobbyists I guess.

My SUV which is a 3.5L V6 gets around 17mpg around town, my wife's recently acquired 2007 Dodge Charger R/T with a 5.7L Hemi V8 (340Hp!) actually gets about the same... sweet ride though, came fully equipped with Multimedia/GPS system and a rear seat DVD system too.

Bok

[alpha]

At least you don't have to pay UK fuel prices on those Bok. ;)

My '91 Mitsubishi Shogun (2.5L) gets 22-28 MPG on short runs, never really taken it far. Costing a bomb at the moment with diesel prices around £1.15 ($2.30) per litre. The Shell V-Power diesel mixes things up a bit with improved vehicle performance and fuel economy, but with a slightly higher cost (~£0.05/ltr).

[Bok]

maybe not but it's getting up there..

when I first moved to the states it was less than $1 per gallon and even last year it was (I think) only around $2.20 or so, now it's up to $3.60 , so roughly half of what the UK is paying I guess, depending which state you are in.

I think the Shogun is the equivalent of my SUV which is a Mitsubishi Montero Sport, very similar anyway :)

Doubt you'd find many Dodge Chargers over there though :p

Bok

[Paratima]

Shish
You have made me incredibly jealous. Back in the 70's, I had a Ds100 Pallas:
http://lesgphoto.com/images/Citroen_Ds100.jpg
LOVED that car! You're absolutely right. Smoothest ride, bar none. (This is not it, just a photo I found at Wikipedia. Same car, though.) People laughed at it until they rode in it!

It finally fell apart after the ONE local mechanic that knew anything about high pressure hydraulic suspension systems died on me. I nearly cried when the car broke down for good. Since then, Citroen has had nothing to do with the US market and vice-versa. They cost an arm and a leg to import, then another couple of legs to make street legal. I believe they are extinct here now. Haven't seen one in years, of any vintage.

(Sigh) What a car!

Sorry to get so off-topic. (sniff)

[paleseptember]

I have a pair of Dr Marten boots (cherry red, of course). Dreadful acceleration, woeful top speed, but they're on their eighth year on their original tread :rotfl:

My partner's got a Ford Festiva buzzbox. 7L/100km, which is .... apparently 33 mpg, according to Google calculator, US gallons I suppose. 40 mpg in imperial units.

[Darkness Productions]

You have been doing this for a while, no? Good to see it has its own home now. Who is the dude with th Porsche... ;-)


I'm glad it has a home now too :)
The dude with the Porsche is Nugget from distributed.net :)



Your "blog" links to http://gms8994.tumblr.com/ which doesn't seem to exist.


Thanks for pointing that out. I've fixed it.



When you first register it asks for your prefs and the button says, "edit prefs". That confused me since I thought I was already doing that, maybe change to "save" instead of "edit" there?


I've changed this as well.



For economy it doesn't list the units, I'm guess MPG for non-metric units but what are you using for metric? The current Pontiac entry is showing 32.118 but in metric it says 13.655 which doesn't make sense to me. Th standard metric measure for economy is L/100km (litres of gas to drive 100km) so that should be showing 7.323 L/100km. To play with that you can use Google (32.118 mpg in L/100km).

Right now, everything is in US units, only because I haven't gotten to finish up the Metric conversion. It's currently km/L, because someone suggested that they used that number, instead of L/100km. I'll check in to it some more though!

[Darkness Productions]

you don't want me there I ha ve a Lead foot I only get 6 to 8 Mpg:beep:

The more data I can get, the better :)

[Darkness Productions]

Not for us in the UK i see.

I have a company car, Ford Mondeo and get 50+ (UK) MPG. Next company car is a Toyota Prius, my choice!! Half the company car tax, and better tax free fuel payment.

:cheers:

edit: should point out the ford is a diesel, but you knew that!

The metric conversion is in the works. If you want to sign up, and start tracking while I finish it, that would be *very* helpful. I've got someone here in the States with a Prius that's supposed to be adding data soon, so it would be interesting to see if they get the same kind of numbers!

[Darkness Productions]

Fuel consumption sucks in the US. Same cars, half the mpg most likely...Blame the oil companies and lobbyists I guess.

My SUV which is a 3.5L V6 gets around 17mpg around town, my wife's recently acquired 2007 Dodge Charger R/T with a 5.7L Hemi V8 (340Hp!) actually gets about the same... sweet ride though, came fully equipped with Multimedia/GPS system and a rear seat DVD system too.

Bok

Care to sign up, and start recording?

[Shish]

Hey DP?
I can do metric or Imperial MPG on the Citroen, you want me to sign up?
Paratima.
I had the DS 25 (swiveling headlights are on the way back) which carried me at insane speeds (multi speeding tickets were dropped by North Yorks police after I complained to the Chief Constable about persecution by one traffic cop:D) and in great comfort suspended on hydraulics sitting in a well padded armchair from Newcastle to London, Thames Barrier, 275 miles down on Sunday night work all day Monday and 20 miles per day across London then 275miles back on a friday night and a weekend of 100plus miles. Did that for the 3 years I kept the car with never a flicker and sold the car for a small profit at the end.
I'm very pleased that Citroen have returned to the innovation they used to be famous for.

Again abject appologies to DP for hijacking his topic.:cheers:

[Darkness Productions]

I'd love to have you sign up. Like I said, if you want to just start tracking data on paper or something, until I can get that portion of the application finished, that would be great.

The more data I can get, the better!

[Shish]

Very accurate computer does it all with several conversions and my pet mechanic prints it out from the datastore. I've checked the computer several times against tank to tank fills and it has to be the most accurate (after around 50 miles) I've ever had. Tracks where you've been, journey log, mpg/litres per journey and fills plus 3 different data sets for instantaneous/miles travelled/miles left on tank or either of 2 planned/routed journeys with average/best-worst/time taken etc etc.... I'm still figuring out what it can do but I keep an instantaneoius on 1 display plus 2 different consumption types. Guess I just luv gadgets and I'm a bit like a kid at Xmas with this setup.
Anyway, All I've got to do is log in cos I didn't look properly at the site after the not for UK comment (no criticism intended of anybody's comments) but that'll have to be after I go to bed and flake out for a few hours or days cos I've been talking to 4 different specialists in burocracy and RED TAPE the last few days and up all night re-planning some engineering stuff. Sleeping and NOT sleeping are now measured in 48 hour chunks which is a side effect of what ails me.
I'll do it soon as cos this should be something I've always done for company cars and other vehicles (inc ones with a weight of 10 Tons per axle and 16 axles, all of which steer and a consumption measured in gallons per mile )..

[Darkness Productions]

Company cars would be cool too :) Especially since a lot of companies require this kind of information when they get gas, it would work pretty well :)

[Digital Parasite]

Right now, everything is in US units, only because I haven't gotten to finish up the Metric conversion. It's currently km/L, because someone suggested that they used that number, instead of L/100km. I'll check in to it some more though!

Is that someone a Canadian or live in Canada? I have NEVER seen km/L used anywhere before. Anywhere you look it is L/100km or sometimes non-US mpg.

http://www.oee.nrcan.gc.ca/transportation/tools/fuelratings/ratings-search.cfm?attr=8

[Darkness Productions]

Alrighty. I've gotten correct support built in for litres, kilometers, imperial gallons, gallons, and miles. It correctly approximates the miles, except for L/100km, which will be coming soon.

Go sign up! I need the data!

[Helix_Von_Smelix]

i'm trying to add info to my car,,,, but can't find out how to.

any ideas??:cheers:

[Darkness Productions]

Helix -

Can you tell me what problem you're having? I can definitely walk you through it!

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[Helix_Von_Smelix]

think it's ok now.

there were SQL type errors

:cheers:

One thing 305 Miles and 4.02 (imperial) gallons = 75 MPG The site shows 63.144 do i need to spend time and check in US gallons?

:cheers:

and, what is short price, or tank price?

and, and, are cost in USD? shall i convert £ to $ when i put costs in?

[alpha]

Yeah, I started to put figures in a couple of weeks ago or so but had to give up and remove all of my data due to ambiguous units/currency etc.

Get it UK friendly! ;)

[gopher_yarrowzoo]

Yeah US Gallon != UK Gallon, think it's something to do with wine, I wiki'd it 1 day I was bored, yeah I was that bored!
Or how about a "checkbox" marked "UK" - that way you put in the data and tick that it converts it from UK to US, Get to DP...

[jasong]

Man, 75mpg. If an Imperial gallon is anything less than half an American gallon, that's a damn economical car.

[Helix_Von_Smelix]

4.54 Litres = 1 imperial gallon

thats why i have one as a company car