Inaccurate Outside Temperature
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This morning, while I was driving at about 50 MPH outside temperature was about 44-45 and the car also showed about +42F but about a mile on the freeway, I saw a warning flashed in my HUD *Outside Temperature 36F (with a snow flack sign ) Is there any significance for the outside temp waring being at 36*F. The temp showed on the dash board was also 36F and then it started to climb up slowly but still showing about 38-39F while it was more like 46-47 outside. It was FOGGY and cloudy though.
Is this normal, I have not seen this kind of behavior before. Has anybody else experienced this?
Sorry for the nobee question, I have had my car for only about two months now and loving every minute of driving it.
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Is this normal, I have not seen this kind of behavior before. Has anybody else experienced this?
Sorry for the nobee question, I have had my car for only about two months now and loving every minute of driving it.
Thanks
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I got the same thing on my E60 when I went back home this past week to Chicago. The temperature was well below the 46 it said it was, and then after sometime the 37- snowflake came on, warning me about icy conditions. I just ignored it, because it came up only once after I started the car, but I just thought it was normal for the car to warn me like that.
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My Ride: MY2004 530d. Poverty spec
Originally Posted by jagbagri' post='735607' date='Dec 1 2008, 05:39 PM
Is there any significance for the outside temp waring being at 36*F.
Personally I've found the temp gauge to be pretty accurate usually. If you're sitting in traffic it tends to go up a little, I'm guessing from heat soak from the engine bay, but otherwise it seems to correspond to other temp measurements. Maybe the Germans can't calculate the C/F conversion properly .
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