Hello there,

Yesterday I changed the useless fuel economy gauge to an Oil temp gauge. A 5 minute job with the Perfecttoolbox. (see attachment). Check this vid for instructions how to do it.
Note: You'll be needing ediabas 7.3.0 as well which comes with Mike's EasyBMWtools.
The vid is for an E90 but it did work perfectly fine on my N62. The 10 on the display scale now represents 100 °C while the 0 represents 50 °C and 20 represents 150 °C
Did a test drive with and while cruising steady on let say 120 km/h the gauge stayed tuned on 95 °C. After that a bit of playing in 4-th, 5-th anbd 6-th gear and it slightly rose to let say 98 °C.
Turend a usekless gauge into something you can work with.
Note: The picture is my car running idle with a 95 °C oil temp

 

Yep, I did this 2 years ago as well and have appreciated having at least some form of information regarding engine temp. Having never monitored oil temps before it was interesting to me to see how they change differently than coolant temp. For example, I was driving up a mountain a few weeks ago to go skiing and even though it was -6 celsius outside and I was driving maybe 20km/hr the oil temps kept rising. In fact, they got close to 150 celsius eventually. The coolant temps stayed normal. I figured with low temps, an oil cooler, etc. that the oil temps wouldn't really rise. Granted the engine is obviously working pretty hard to go uphill on the switchbacks the whole way.

 

Did anybody try a digital instrument cluster from ID4Motion? Pricey but it is plug-and-play.

 

not only the ahrd work but the slow speed is what make sthe temp rise. If you are just idling it also rises to at least 110 C. If you drive nromally it stays at just below a 100 C.

 

i would never do that. LCD gauges look cheap to me. Physical indicators are much more charming then an LCD will ever be.

reg

willem

 

Hmmm I was hoping you swapped out the dash overlay to match. If that was the case I would probably do it, but I use the JB4 to hijack the guage for boost right now however I can change it to other parameters if I choose.

Wondering if an E90 overlay would work?

 

Hello

I need a bit of help. I've downloaded PerfektToolbox and worked perfectly to code my E61lci 520d and E91lci 316d both with n47 engine with no errors. The problem I'm having is the needle stay still at 0 all the time. It does not read the oil temperature.
Needle moves when setting a value in PerfektToolbox. But in driving it stay at 0 all the time. Tried with different step values, different stepper motor values.. same result for both cars (needle moves in PerfektToolbox, coding works, actual oil temperature not working while driving)

Tried in ISTA-D to see the oil temperature but did not find it anywhere. I have no errors on oil level/quality sensor. Also if that was bad what are the odds for having two bmw's with the same problem at that sensor.

Any thoughts about this? I'd really want some sort of information on the oil temp or coolant temp in the gauges.
I now suspect maybe the 520d and 316d do not have oil temperature signal. Maybe it's different sensor for diesel n47 that does not have oil temperature?
Anyone knows where in ISTA i can check the oil temperature values? it does not show up in text search (other then AZD and replacement document), nor in operational values in DDE.