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      09-05-2020, 04:29 PM   #1
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Anyone bothered by the "rev limit" display on the speedometer?

I put the car in sport mode and noticed the horribly designed red line rev limit on the speedometer. It's these two extremely thin horizontal dashes which you would never see unless your staring directly at the speedometer. Which defeats the purpose because in sport mode (or any other mode ) you're supposed to keep your eyes on the road.
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I put the car in sport mode and noticed the horribly designed red line rev limit on the speedometer. It's these two extremely thin horizontal dashes which you would never see unless your staring directly at the speedometer. Which defeats the purpose because in sport mode (or any other mode ) you're supposed to keep your eyes on the road.
You can get the tach in the HUD. I have it optioned to appear in the HUD in sport mode. I rarely use the dash for anything, everything I need is up on the HUD.
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Got a lease and had standard options. No HUD. Try it out next and you'll wonder who designed it that way. They could have even used the main rpm bar on the side or something bigger. But instead some .5mm thin horizontal bar
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I put the car in sport mode and noticed the horribly designed red line rev limit on the speedometer. It's these two extremely thin horizontal dashes which you would never see unless your staring directly at the speedometer. Which defeats the purpose because in sport mode (or any other mode ) you're supposed to keep your eyes on the road.
You can change the display settings so the gauges do not change even when you change into sport mode.
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Nothing new here, BMW, a company who prides themselves on tech, has one of (if not) the worst digital gauge clusters in the industry. Why they don't just include multiple display modes like every other manufacturer in the industry is beyond me.
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Nothing new here, BMW, a company who prides themselves on tech, has one of (if not) the worst digital gauge clusters in the industry. Why they don't just include multiple display modes like every other manufacturer in the industry is beyond me.
LCI may do that....
However, after decades with BMW, and now with the G20, the gauges do not bother me at all...
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You can change the display settings so the gauges do not change even when you change into sport mode.
Is that in the settings? I dont remember seeing that
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Is that in the settings? I dont remember seeing that
Yep - it's in the settings in the displays part. I've had the car for 4 months and only discovered it last week. So in all modes its the standard gauge cluster. Much better. The regular gauges are clearer than the sport ones.
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You can get the tach in the HUD. I have it optioned to appear in the HUD in sport mode. I rarely use the dash for anything, everything I need is up on the HUD.
I can't get the Tach to Operate in the HUD... I tried everything short of bringing it to the dealer,,,

I had asked this weeks ago in the coding section I should of asked here...

I see my Tach on my HUD but it doesn't work. There is never any movement in the scale, when I rev engine or drive in any mode the Tach never operates; it is just a fixed picture of a tach, it never changes. No movement and no color changes its just frozen like a picture of a Tach... All other stuff in the HUD work fine. Maybe there is another setting that I don't know about to activate it? or its just faulty. Does anyone experience this or is there something I am doing wrong? Thanks. It's a M340 by the way. Thanks for your insight, appreciate it.
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I can't get the Tach to Operate in the HUD... I tried everything short of bringing it to the dealer,,,

I had asked this weeks ago in the coding section I should of asked here...

I see my Tach on my HUD but it doesn't work. There is never any movement in the scale, when I rev engine or drive in any mode the Tach never operates; it is just a fixed picture of a tach, it never changes. No movement and no color changes its just frozen like a picture of a Tach... All other stuff in the HUD work fine. Maybe there is another setting that I don't know about to activate it? or its just faulty. Does anyone experience this or is there something I am doing wrong? Thanks. It's a M340 by the way. Thanks for your insight, appreciate it.
Did you code your car? If so, what coding changes did you make?
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I can't get the Tach to Operate in the HUD... I tried everything short of bringing it to the dealer,,,

I had asked this weeks ago in the coding section I should of asked here...

I see my Tach on my HUD but it doesn't work. There is never any movement in the scale, when I rev engine or drive in any mode the Tach never operates; it is just a fixed picture of a tach, it never changes. No movement and no color changes its just frozen like a picture of a Tach... All other stuff in the HUD work fine. Maybe there is another setting that I don't know about to activate it? or its just faulty. Does anyone experience this or is there something I am doing wrong? Thanks. It's a M340 by the way. Thanks for your insight, appreciate it.
That's really odd. As far as I know there isn't any other setting. I just optioned for it to appear in my HUD and that was it. Now anytime I drive in sport+ mode the tach appears in the HUD and it works fine.

As VipinLJ mentioned, have you coded anything else that may be interfering with the tach operation?
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That's really odd. As far as I know there isn't any other setting. I just optioned for it to appear in my HUD and that was it. Now anytime I drive in sport+ mode the tach appears in the HUD and it works fine.

As VipinLJ mentioned, have you coded anything else that may be interfering with the tach operation?
I agree. Nothing else was needed for me to get it to work either. But if one codes in the M display for the live cockpit, you lose the tacho in the HUD. Which is what made me think of codings done to the car.
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Did you code your car? If so, what coding changes did you make?
I have not did any coding at all the car is stock.
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I have not did any coding at all the car is stock.
I'd take it to the dealer. Maybe needs a fresh install of iD7?
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That's really odd. As far as I know there isn't any other setting. I just optioned for it to appear in my HUD and that was it. Now anytime I drive in sport+ mode the tach appears in the HUD and it works fine.

As VipinLJ mentioned, have you coded anything else that may be interfering with the tach operation?
No coding was done. Maybe I have to uncheck HUD and re-do my profile and re-set the iDrive to factory? I haven't tried this yet.
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I'd take it to the dealer. Maybe needs a fresh install of iD7?
I'll probably live with it till the first service is due, then I will go to dealer.
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No coding was done. Maybe I have to uncheck HUD and re-do my profile and re-set the iDrive to factory? I haven't tried this yet.
That is weird then. In my car, when I coded in the M display, tacho wouldn't work on the HUD. Has to undo it to get it to work again.
Let us know what the service centre says when you take it in.
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Yes!! This is why I have my display set to comfort mode (because you have the orange "needles") always. The sport mode display is awful for a quick glance of revs/speed. Wish I got the HUD
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Update, I re-booted the iDrive again today, and this time the tach is finally working in the HUD. I guess it was a glitch of some sort.
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Hi,

Can check what did you code to enable tach in HUD when in sport mode?

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Can check what did you code to enable tach in HUD when in sport mode?
It wasn't coding, there's an option to include the tach in HUD:
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