Thread: Monitoring engine?

Originally Posted by LoveB

Cool beans. Just put my order through. How long does delivery usually take?

Delivery was great, ordered Weds night and had it by the following Tues, FedEx from Texas.

Originally Posted by LoveB

Cool beans. Just put my order through. How long does delivery usually take?

Probably by next Tuesday or Wednesday...

Thats fine then.. bit of a gift mid work week lol
I think i ordered the velco mount and the regular. I have aount for my old gps that looks similar

Finding the Ultra-Gauge to be a nifty unit. I haven't been through a tank of fuel yet to calibrate the consumption figures however from what I've read on the Net is that those figures are not so reliable for the Defender. A bit of a shame as I was hoping to gain a useful distance to empty calculation!

For me, the best place to mount the Ultra-Gauge is in front of the instruments using the standard adapter. You get good access to the buttons and the display is easy to read.

I've temporarily used the MacGyver method to attach the mount (Gaffer Tape) for the time being. I'll fix it permanently this weekend (or maybe the next )

Originally Posted by LoveB

Cool beans. Just put my order through. How long does delivery usually take?

Mine was ordered on a Sunday Sydney time, and had it in my hands on Thursday afternoon

As per feedback earlier in this thread it works best if you plug it in and leave it. Swapping cars is also a bit of a pain as you need to reconfigure the engine size & fuel tank size, and cars without fuel senders that means you loose the ability to calculate distance / time to empty.

I found on older cars that don't use the ISO protocol the device sometimes does not detect button presses, but on newer cars it works like lightning.

Getting the screens setup takes a bit of time too, but once you get it settled you never have to worry about it.

These look great.

Ive just ordered 2 one for my 130 and one for my sons 110 puma.

In anticipation, Ive dowloaded the manual.

Which OBD2 protocol does a PUMA use? Has there been any issues using the default Force protocol "Auto discovery"

I was also looking at the fuel sender modes. Does Smart mode work in a Puma?

They do work great, but the Tdci has limited sensors and at least 50% of the functions remain unused.

If I recall correctly the self discovery worked fine and the car unfortunately doesn't support many of the fuel monitoring ability of the Ultra Gauge.

Cheers,

Lou

Has any one used the trouble code read/clear feature of the UG?


I hooked my UG up to RRS that at present has 2 DTC in the engine ECU
My BBS faultmate showed an EGR fault (because its blanked) and P0625 because my alternator is faulty. Both of these are in the Engine management ECU
The UG reported DTC=0