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workingonit · #10 10-14-2024, 12:12 PM

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Originally Posted by andrewwynn

...It's moronic to have a gauge that looks like a thermometer but isn't.

Hear is a perfect analog:

So BMW might decide that it would be best if the speedometer would show 70 mph when there actual speed was anything between 50 and 90 mph.

Then would show 120mph if you hit 75 mph.

This is how the non thermostat gauge works. It's really stupid.

The needle should not show normal temp unless the engine is warm enough to operate in closed loop.

Somebody should make a set of instrument panel overlays that show the speedometer ranges as andrewwynn suggested. And for the temp gauge, too, with ranges from "too cold" to "just right" to "too late". I'd buy a set, and continue to get my data via Torque Pro thru the OBD port, as I always do, as displayed on an Android tablet.

One can never tell if the analog dash gauges (on early BMW's like mine; I have no idea when they switched to digital, if they did or not) are working properly anyway. My Tachometer (RPM gauge) on the dash quit working awhile back in the X5, so I simply tapped my finger on the plastic cover, and it resumed operation, and continues working properly months later.

I've had many vehicles with idiot lights only, or with gauges that stopped working, mostly pre-OBD2 (1996), and I either added aftermarket gauges to replace them ($$), got them fixed by a specialist shop ($$$), or did a workaround (no $ required). On a couple of old GM trucks, and my '66 Chevelle (while it was still in street/strip, not full dragracing mode), I used a dash-mounted list of calculated "speeds @ RPM's" that showed what my speed was at various tach readings.

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