Almost always on the energy display.

 

You can view a trip meter AND Odometer at the same time. When it's on odo (large or small, I forget which one), hit the trip reset **** to bring up trip A (B) and then when the ODO screen shows it will also show the trip meter.

 

I watch the ECO level. I try to maintain the best level on each trip and see what I am doing and that helps bring my average up. I do wish that the ECO level would go above 40. Why 40 Toyota????

 

The "funny" thing about 40 is that it is the final city MPG EPA estimate. Several months before release, that figure was supposed to be 43. If that 43 had held, would they have still used a max of 40 on the gauge? It seems to me that putting 45 on the scale would have made more sense. And anything 40-45 would then be labelled "Most Excellent" (think Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure).

(Yes, the last sentence was tongue-in-cheek.)

 

"If that 43 had held, would they have still used a max of 40 on the gauge?"

I seriously doubt that they would have had time (or taken the time) to change the guage in production before the car was released.

I also agree, however, that the guage would be nice it went higher that 40-42.

 

Yes, I know you can do this. So go ahead and put your TripA on top and your total ODO on the bottom. Now hit DISP and change to a different display. What shows on the bottom? Trip A, instead of total ODO. I want to be able to see total ODO all the time, since I look at that all the time versus the trip meter which I only look at when my fuel tank gets close to empty, so I change it back. Now when I go back to the dual "odometer" screen, the TripA is missing again, and I have to hit the reset ****. PITA. This is the only car I've had which doesn't show Trip and ODO simultaneously all the time. But this is a small annoyance.

 

Maybe someone can explain questiond from a new tch owner. (sixth day since picking up from dealer) Have been reading the manual when there is time and am on page 40 now.

Is there a way to set trip A as well as B to give mpg average? Or is trip A not for mpg? Trip B then will automatically start from scratch after fillup?

 

I leave mine on temp display most of the time. I do wish that temp was always displayed on the MFD, maybe in one of the upper corners or something, then you could use the MFD more as a trip computer, flipping through the screens that you're interested in. I've never had a car where the temp display was part of the "trip computer so to speak." Usually the temp has its own display.

 

Maybe put the temp display in the mirrow instead of the compass? Just a thought.

 

For non-NAV's, the MPG readout is not tied to either Trip A nor B, it's tied to when you filled up the tank... You can reset Trips A & B all you want, but it'll never do anything to the MPG readout. Am I totally mis-understanding your question?