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Post Sat Dec 10, 2005 2:17 pm

how do you change the temp on obc to read degrees C not ferinheight, i dont really need it i no its bloody cold, but can anyone help me please.

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Post Sat Dec 10, 2005 2:26 pm

you cant dude, really annoying though.

you can either have everything else european and temp in C or everything readable (ie:miles, mpg etc) and have temp in F.
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Post Sat Dec 10, 2005 2:35 pm

Oh well at least the germans made good cars!!!
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Post Sat Dec 10, 2005 6:10 pm

Buy a 6 button OBC...much better!
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Post Sat Dec 10, 2005 6:24 pm

Yer on the 6 button you can turn a little 'thing' on the back. The not 6 button being superior mush surely have the option?
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Post Sat Dec 10, 2005 9:47 pm

bmwe30mtech wrote:Yer on the 6 button you can turn a little 'thing' on the back. The not 6 button being superior mush surely have the option?
Didn't quite understand that! :mad:
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Post Sat Dec 10, 2005 9:50 pm

Sorry, i don't even remember posting that! I think i meant to say that if the 6 button obc is cheaper than the 'full' obc, then surely the full obc should have all the stuff the 6 button obc has (i.e. able to change to degrees centigrade) and exta on top of that. Having typed that i may be wrong! :mad:
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Post Sat Dec 10, 2005 9:52 pm

No, 13 button does not have the facility to change over! 13 button is the poor mans obc!
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Post Sat Dec 10, 2005 9:53 pm

oh! 8O . So there is a 6 button, 13 button and another one as well?
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Post Sat Dec 10, 2005 10:05 pm

bmwe30mtech wrote:oh! 8O . So there is a 6 button, 13 button and another one as well?
only the 6 button and the 13 button as far as I know!

There is also the anologuen clock, and the rare digital clock, which was fitted to early E30's
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Post Sat Dec 10, 2005 10:11 pm

Thanks simon, i learn more and more (much of it from you!). It was due time that you became a zone team member. :thumb:
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Post Sat Dec 10, 2005 10:14 pm

btw, You need to be added to the 'about us' section on the zone!
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Post Sat Dec 10, 2005 10:16 pm

Cheers mate

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Post Sun Dec 11, 2005 12:22 am

Simon wrote:There is also the anologuen clock, and the rare digital clock, which was fitted to early E30's
Rare? Well I have 2 of them here (one in my car) so I'll put them on ebay for $500 each :D .

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Post Sun Dec 11, 2005 9:36 am

astondg wrote:
Simon wrote:There is also the anologuen clock, and the rare digital clock, which was fitted to early E30's
Rare? Well I have 2 of them here (one in my car) so I'll put them on ebay for $500 each :D .

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Put them up for 700 each and some muppet will bid. :wink:
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Post Sun Dec 11, 2005 9:42 am

That's better :wink:
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Post Sun Dec 11, 2005 11:53 am

this i my 6 button. seams strang you cant change the temperature format.http://img225.imageshack.us/my.php?imag ... 0019fn.jpg
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Post Sun Dec 11, 2005 12:04 pm

Simon wrote:That's better :wink:
Thanks, wish i was a moderator! Took me a while to work out what you had changed. Didnt know you could do that!
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Post Sun Dec 11, 2005 1:00 pm

OBC is better reading Fareneit degrees, because these are about half the size of centigrade degrees. This gives almost twice the resolution.
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Post Sun Dec 11, 2005 1:35 pm

Brianmoooore wrote:OBC is better reading Fareneit degrees, because these are about half the size of centigrade degrees. This gives almost twice the resolution.
The 6-button reads in 0.5-degree steps when set to read centigrade.
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