What Does This Indicator Light Mean?

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10-31-2005, 04:59 PM

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Originally Posted by sixgun95' date='Oct 30 2005, 10:19 AM

I must say that is friggin incredible, a car that warns me of pending icy conditions...now I know what I have missed in a Ford all these years!

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Hahhaha nah... even a cheapie $16K car (MINI, well it is BMW made...

) has this function... dont need no 60K BMW.

Anyone know if Japanese cars have this? Acura? Lexus? Infiniti? Nothing special... but cusrious if they have it.

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11-01-2005, 04:05 AM

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Remember that an outside temperature of 37 degrees can differ from area to area. If there is a shady road that had frozen overnight, the sun may not have melted the ice and the shaded area of the road can fluctuate up to 10 degrees keeping it frozen. So BMWs 5 degree offset is not that bad of a theory.

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Originally Posted by Mr.PC' date='Oct 31 2005, 08:42 PM

I've been getting it, plus a chime, when the temp. hits 37 degrees F.? And I remember seeing this in the manual, though I'm not sure I agree with their theory that an air temperature 5 degrees above freezing implies an ice risk.

More to the point - has anyone tried to correlate the temperature the car shows you with actual?? I have and it's been anywhere from 10 low to 5 high.? So I wouldn't rely on it.

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