Ed, it's simple to figure out your error because of the tall tires.  Two methods to use.  One, find a nice stretch of road with mile markers.  Note the mileage on your odometer.  Drive a ways, then check to see the difference between what the markers say and what the odometer says.  If you drive 100 miles, but only indicate 90 miles, then you know you're about 10% off.  Same goes for using the speedometer.  Find a nice long stretch of road, set the cruise control at 60 mph, then clock the time it takes you to go a set number of miles.  Remember, 60 mph is 1 mile per minute.  If you're making 1 mile in 54 seconds, you're 10% off.  These illustrate tall tires; if you've got shorter tires, you'll indicate =more= miles traveled per actual mileage and you'll indicate a =higher= speed than actual.  Hope this helps.

Lyle Knox

Ed Cifelli wrote:

Went to the location and discovered that neoither was checked. So got an oil change coming up pretty soon, and put it in and have it set up as mileage. So lets see what happens. If nothing happens, it still lets me know how my gas mileage is doing. And for the $$ it was worth that. Just put new tires on the truck and mileage dropped, but tires are slightly oversize. So it may be the same after all. Got to figure out how to figger it out.

 

Many Thanks

Ed

zat_soft <zat_soft@...> wrote:

--- In Vehicle_Log@yahoogroups.com, "Ed" <kc7mwp@...> wrote:
> Some time ago when I purchased Vehicle Log, I expressed a problem
> I seemed to have with the alert function. It seemed as if they were
> not working. Well I set up the oil change, and I finally figured out
> whet the problem is. The alert function is date dependant rather
> than mileage dependant so I could get an alert when I really didn't
> need it. I was puting about 300 miles a week on the vehicle, if that
> rings any kind of a bell.

Ed,

The alert feature is either date or mileage or both based upon how the
alert event is defined.  Go to the Oil Change, maintenance event
definition screen and see if both mileage and date are checked.

Zat Soft

EdC
Concho AZ

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