Re: E36 M3 wacko fuel gauge

[Jim Bassett <jbassett@xxxxxxxxxx>]

>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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