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Re: E36 M3 wacko fuel gauge
- Subject: Re: E36 M3 wacko fuel gauge
- From: Jim Bassett <jbassett@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 06 Dec 1998 11:51:40 -0800
>Date: Sat, 05 Dec 1998 20:37:46 -0500
>From: Dave Kan <dkan@domain.elided>
>Subject: Re: E36 M3 wacko fuel gauge
>
>Here is a neat little trick I learned by reading the ftp archives.
>
>If you have the more advanced OBC with four buttons on the bottom
>1,10,100,1000 .... you can press the 1 and 1000 down at the same time
>and see in liters what the remaining fuel is in the tank. It will
>display in liters even if you are in the North America mode (miles,
>gallons, etc..)
It's not quite that simple on E36s.
The entire procedure for accessing the hidden features on the OBC (there's
about 20 of them) are at:
http://cbsgi1.bu.edu/bmw/obc.html
(That's cbsgi"one", not cbsgi"el", for anyone typing it in.)
Cheers,
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Jim Bassett
Walnut Creek, CA
1998 M3/4
BMW CCA #131681
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