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JasonR
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Tue Mar 02, 2010 8:23 pm

Hi,

My OBC has never been in english since i bought the car. I tried holding the bottom right button down on the consumption screen... nothin changed.

On the code screen there are 4 dashes. Date/time screen also has dashes followed by german.

Can some one please tell me how to change all this so it works properly please!?
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Tue Mar 02, 2010 8:38 pm

If you press the consumption button and you get the L/KM reading,press the small recessed button at the bottom right of the obc with a pen or other small pointed object till the display shows M/G(which refers to UK MPG) then go to the time/date screens and press the recessed buttom again till you get 0000 on the screen, then,using the buttons marked 1/10/100/1000 input the time/date
1= the 1st number
10=the 2nd number
100=the 3rd number
1000=the 4th number

so if you want to set the time at 8.45am you'd press button marked 10 eight times,the button marked 100 four times and the button marked 1000 5 times then you'd press the small recessed black button again to store the time

Same goes for the date,except you have to input the month(1-12) then the date(1-31).

eg. 2nd march would be 0302 on the display once it's been set
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JasonR
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Tue Mar 02, 2010 9:24 pm

Perfect... i was being fairly simple before this post... thought i was pressing the small button enough. Evidently not. Thanks for the help!
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Wed Mar 03, 2010 9:34 am

Details of operation are in the original car hand book. Check yours or grab one
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