dlevi67

I thought that's why they went around in pairs. One can read, the other can write. Now, I only need to get the right one...

dlevi67

OK - between yesterday and today I must have clocked about 20 BMW. Of all sorts: E34, E38, E39, E60 (only 2 - bummer), X5, X3, E46. No diesels in my viewing list, and no E90. I stopped short of poking my nose into an E65 as the driver was still in it.

There seem to be 2 types of scale: roughly centred (vertical needle) on 20 UK mpg, and centred on 30 UK mpg. Lowest number on either scale is 10, highest is 50.

The "20 mpg" I have seen in X5 4.4, E39 with high OBC (probably V8, but debadged and not OEM grille) and E38 740iL. "30 mpg" everywhere else, including two petrol E60 (525? 530? not V8 anyway).

The instruments vary a lot in shape and appearance, including the fact that in some E46 the hand is pointing up rather than down, but the scale seems to be the same.

So, it seems that there are different instruments, but not as many, and probably BMW is standardising on the "30 UK mpg" scale - which rather conveniently is ~10l/100km

aybeesea

Thanks for looking. I was of course interested in the meter on the e60 variants.

So as I said: they may as well colour code the meter and have done with it.

But that's not sufficiently "control feak".

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