Garmin's ecoroute obd11 reader

[Wal_mart]

Anyone with a bluetooth compatable garmin nuvii try one of these?


A closer look at Garmin's ecoRoute HD | CES 2010 - CNET

ecoRoute

 

[Lumpy]

No, but I have the Nuvi 1490. I think I might try it next time I do a road trip!

 

[TWalley]

I have a 1490 model also. I use the EcoRoute info, but don't have the dongle thingy to use the HD options. I find the EcoRoute info useful and interesting. I can get very good "scores" on my acceleration pretty easily, but I find that my braking scores aren't as good as I would expect. It was also interesting to find out how much increasing my braking scores helped my overall fuel economy.

 

[BillDriscoll]

this is interesting. I looked up a few others that had Bluetooth from the obd II to my droid phone, but the diesel issue seems to screw some of them up.
Can you get exhaust temps and boost from the obd II? Are the readings more accurate than from the dash gauges (oil pressure water temp ect?)
Nuvie's seem pretty cheap on craigs list as a lot of people are using the gps on the phones instead.

thanks
BillD

 

[Wal_mart]

I don't believe exhaust temp is available thru odb11