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    OBC help!!!

    Tonight when i turned on the car my on board computer must have reset or something..... b/c the clock and date is all reset, and now its telling me everythign in the metric system. Can anyone post some info on basic OBC functions. Hahah... i cant even set my clock and date, and most of all i cant get out of that whole metric system display. I tried pressing "set-res" along with the other buttons but it doesnt work with the hour date button. I dunno what i'm doin... haha... help please. Thanks, Dave
    E30 Dinan Turbo


    #2
    To change out of metric go to the MPG menu and press the little pin hole on the bottom left with the head of a pen or something. Then to set the clock, go to the hour/date button then hit the pin hole again, then enter the time with the 4 buttons below, when you have the time set press the pin hole again.

    I hope that helps, kinda hard to explain exactly how to do it.

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      #3
      Yeah that actually helps a lot. Thanks for the info. I wonder how it got reset in the first place? Oh well.
      E30 Dinan Turbo

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        #4
        usually if your battery dies, or their is a drain in the system, or somehow the OBC loses power for a minute, it does that.

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          #5
          Originally posted by LikeCDoos
          To change out of metric go to the MPG menu and press the little pin hole on the bottom left with the head of a pen or something. Then to set the clock, go to the hour/date button then hit the pin hole again, then enter the time with the 4 buttons below, when you have the time set press the pin hole again.

          I hope that helps, kinda hard to explain exactly how to do it.
          Ok i did all that and its set and fine now. But here is the wierd thing...... the pinhole was on the rigth on my car.
          E30 Dinan Turbo

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            #6
            you can get it to read in US. (non -metric) does this work for the temp to F then the C.

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              #7
              Yes, once you switch out of metric, it will read temp in F, not C.

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                #8
                Originally posted by DaN
                Yes, once you switch out of metric, it will read temp in F, not C.
                damn all this time ive been doing the math

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                  #9
                  Yeah, mine goes back and forth w/o me tocuhing it. E30's have the worst wiring ever. Oh and sometimes, it just has a bunch of giberish all over it. :?

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                    #10
                    SickE30 Wrote,

                    "Yeah, mine goes back and forth w/o me tocuhing it. E30's have the worst wiring ever. Oh and sometimes, it just has a bunch of giberish all over it."

                    I could debate the worst wiring comment, sounds to me like you need a new OBC.

                    Robert,
                    85' 325e

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                      #11
                      Originally posted by bimma360
                      Ok i did all that and its set and fine now. But here is the wierd thing...... the pinhole was on the rigth on my car.
                      I took a look at my OBC today and mine is also on the right, i was just going off memory before, my bad

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