You find the ability to maintain the temp within a narrow range a sign of
deception? I'm confident that if the guage is in the middle, then the temp
is within 10 or 15 degrees of where it is supposed to be.

You can **** up your car with aftermarket crapola if you want, but I have no
reason to think that my guages are not accurate when they tell me that all
systgems are nominal.





"Jon Blake" > wrote in message
ashington.edu...
> Seeking the group's wisdom on this.
> Car is 2005 330Ci, my first bimmer and one I'm enjoying greatly.
>
> However, I find that the water temp guage is "buffered". That is when,
> say, climbing up a mountain road to a pass, many of which Washington State
> here in the USA is blessed with, the temp guage never climbs. When
> descending long stretches in cool weather the temp guage never makes any
> movement to a cooler reading.
>
> I've heard the more than likely apocryphal story that for the USA market
> the average bimmer owner was concerned that such a fine car had such
> fluctuations in its coolant temp, hence the rock sold reading regardless
> of actual engine temp. I pray this story is urban myth.
>
> Anyway, I'm convinced that the guage won't to a damn thing until someday
> when something untoward happens and then it will jump into the red. I want
> a real guage not an idiot light costumed as a guage.
>
> I am considering adding oil temp, voltage, oil pressure guages mounted
> just in front of the shifter in the small space now occupied by an
> accesory compartment. I really would prefer not to use one of the guage
> spots for a coolant guage.
>
> So, can the buffering be bypassed so as to give real readings, or is the
> whole thing so buried in some obscure cpu that there's no hope.
>
> As you can tell I'm an old fart - I've railed before on the lack of an oil
> dipstick in this year's models as an example and so am prepared to be
> spanked again with some sort of comment about the guage will do what's
> it's supposed to do if things get overheated so I shouldn't. :-)
>
>
> - Jon