How are people using the trip A and B settings?

[Keen4Green]

I have my trip A set to reset after each fuel up. My trip B I haven't done anything with. How are you all using yours?

Is anyone using trip A or B to calculate more exact mpg figures, e.g., r/t to work, etc? I am finding that 20/40/60 thing not specific enough for measuring mpg on alternate routes.

[fiatwins]

The only way I have ever used the second trip meter on any of my cars is as total mileage on a trip, as to know how far I have driven total at any point in the trip.

[BrianZ54]

Pretty close to "fiatwins" here. I use trip A as a tank mileage check and trip B for any other measurement of interest. Either longer or shorter than a tank fill-up interval. I've checked 900 mile round trips and easy drives to town on a Saturday morning, Six miles downhill where I can get 67+ mpg on a CVT.

I like to check the trip to work in the morning with a strong tailwind, or home against it, just to see how much it can vary. Fun to watch the numbers.

Brian

[corey415]

Even though I have Trip Meter A automatically reset on fuel up, I also manually reset Trip Meter B at the same time. So in essence it is simply a redundant meter for me.

[Moviemike]

I manually reset trip B every morning before starting the engine. I used to use it to compare different driving styles over a given piece of terrain, but have found styles that seem to work best at this point.

Trip A is automatically set to reset at fillup. At fillup I always use a credit card and write total miles driven and trip A mpg on the credit card slip. I then post those numbers at fuelly.

With this system I'm able to use mpg numbers to develop best mpg driving style, see daily mpg, see mpg per fillup, see total / overall mpg (currently a very satisfactory 50.0 mpg).

[Gimpster]

I do the same as moviemike, except I use GasBuddy on my iPhone instead of fuely.

[captaingohan]

A is for miles per fill up
B is Mile per month cause i'm on a lease

[SamHouston]

I have Trip A set to automatically go to zero at fillup.

I use Trip B to keep a running total of "lifetime" MPG. I started this a little late and have about 1300 miles on Trip B of a total 2075 miles on the car.

[The Beard]

A - I reset every 1000 miles.
B - lifetime of car

[erfkzoo]

A - Automatically reset upon fillup
B - Lifetime of car