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      07-06-2012, 02:47 PM   #27
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Originally Posted by ovekvam View Post
There is no correct answers, but we can discuss opinions. The instrumentation was better in the eighties. Then there were dials for water and oil temperature, and sometimes voltage and current. I am a slightly disappointed by the lack of info about engine temperature in the F20. I don't want to push the engine before the oil is warm. How can I know when it is okay?
I do agree in that. At least you should be able to choose displaying oil or water temperature instead of - or in addition to - the rather useless (however entertaining) sport displays on the iDrive screen.
Voltage and current are not important information on a modern car, a warning symbol can very well replace the dials. But then again - the actual information is floating around in the computer anyway, so it should be fairly easy to display even this as virtual dials on the LCD screen or the black panel.
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