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      09-21-2018, 06:52 AM   #1
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MPH to KM?

Is there a way to change the speedometer to display in KM?
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      09-21-2018, 03:08 PM   #2
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Nope. The clusters are unit specific
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Isnt it a electronic setting?
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      09-21-2018, 06:13 PM   #4
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You can't change the dial in the instrument cluster. You can, however, set the digital speedo to use kilometers instead of mph if desired. This is the way I had it set during my ED until I got used to doing the conversions in my head.
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You can't change the dial in the instrument cluster. You can, however, set the digital speedo to use kilometers instead of mph if desired. This is the way I had it set during my ED until I got used to doing the conversions in my head.
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Like randy said, the cluster isn't digital (even though it looks like it) so the speed units display can't be changed anywhere except that rectangular screen at the bottom


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Well i suppose not having totally digital cluster adds to the charm of this car,

I would wouldnt want a completely fabricated cluster

But they couldve put kph or mph in small subscript like they have been doing in cars for the past 70 yrs
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Well i suppose not having totally digital cluster adds to the charm of this car,

I would wouldnt want a completely fabricated cluster

But they couldve put kph or mph in small subscript like they have been doing in cars for the past 70 yrs
Well look at it like this, Canadian E9X M3s only had KM/H on the speedometer.
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But they couldve put kph or mph in small subscript like they have been doing in cars for the past 70 yrs
Lol, they had it like that on the 2016/2017 Pre-LCI cars actually. They did away with it in 2018.

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Had the same issue, my e30 touring was kmh but m2c has mph only. I should have made a cheat sheet but instead used the following rule of thumb

30kmh small towns = 10-15 mph was safe
50kmh medium towns/approaching small towns = 25-30mph was safe
60kmh country lanes = 40-45 mph safe
100kmh freeway/highway = 60-65 safe
120kmh autobahn = 70-75 safe
/// = Send it.

Not exact but worked for me (minus one town that pinched me at 5 over!)
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After driving for a couple of weeks in Europe, the translation became easy for me at least.

25 kph =~ 15 mph
50 kph =~ 31 mph
100 kph =~ 62 mph
120 kph =~ 75 mph

A little more or less as signage indicates, quite a bit more on the autobahn when conditions & break in permitted.
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So, I'm an idiot...

After a week of driving through Europe, I finally realized that I don't need to convert mph to km...the screen displays what the speed limit is in mph already! In my defense though, that part of the screen is like 80% covered by the steering wheel for me. Haha
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So, I'm an idiot...

After a week of driving through Europe, I finally realized that I don't need to convert mph to km...the screen displays what the speed limit is in mph already! In my defense though, that part of the screen is like 80% covered by the steering wheel for me. Haha
Interesting. Guess I never saw that since I had the units set to metric.
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So, I'm an idiot...

After a week of driving through Europe, I finally realized that I don't need to convert mph to km...the screen displays what the speed limit is in mph already! In my defense though, that part of the screen is like 80% covered by the steering wheel for me. Haha
Mine did not work at all for the entire trip.. I guess you got lucky. The lady at the welt said people were having issues with some of the systems with the US spec cars in europe especially the navigation. They said not to pull the USB out until drop off.
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Mine did not work at all for the entire trip.. I guess you got lucky. The lady at the welt said people were having issues with some of the systems with the US spec cars in europe especially the navigation. They said not to pull the USB out until drop off.
I had the BMW nav system fail on me several times while I was on ED back in May. I simply pulled the USB and reseated it and that resolved the issues.

Not a big deal really since I used Waze as my primary Nav while I was there. Worked beautifully although I did end up driving through an ally I had no business going through - way too narrow.
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I had the BMW nav system fail on me several times while I was on ED back in May. I simply pulled the USB and reseated it and that resolved the issues.

Not a big deal really since I used Waze as my primary Nav while I was there. Worked beautifully although I did end up driving through an ally I had no business going through - way too narrow.
Me too - I had to pull the USB [European maps] stick once or twice, but we ended up using Google Maps on one of our phones more often anyway - it almost always mentioned upcoming turns a little earlier and was more chatty in general, which is nice when you're in a foreign country driving for the first time.

Had no idea the car would convert European speed limits that it reads into mph - I had switched the digital speedo to km right away, so I never saw that. Of course, the digital speedo is covered up by default by navigation stuff when you have the nav on, and I didn't have time to figure out how to turn that off during the trip, so I had to get used to doing the km-to-mile conversions in my head every time I saw a speed limit sign, at least until we stopped using the car's navigation after several days.

Another advantage for Google Maps over the car's nav on an ED trip is Google Maps has traffic while in Europe, unlike a US-spec bimmer w/nav.
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Mine did not work at all for the entire trip.. I guess you got lucky. The lady at the welt said people were having issues with some of the systems with the US spec cars in europe especially the navigation. They said not to pull the USB out until drop off.
I had the BMW nav system fail on me several times while I was on ED back in May. I simply pulled the USB and reseated it and that resolved the issues.

Not a big deal really since I used Waze as my primary Nav while I was there. Worked beautifully although I did end up driving through an ally I had no business going through - way too narrow.
Were you able to use apple carplay?
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Were you able to use apple carplay?
Honestly, I didn't try to use Car Play while I was there. My initial reaction is that it wouldn't work but I'm not so sure as I think about it. I don't know quite enough to be certain.
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Me too - I had to pull the USB [European maps] stick once or twice, but we ended up using Google Maps on one of our phones more often anyway - it almost always mentioned upcoming turns a little earlier and was more chatty in general, which is nice when you're in a foreign country driving for the first time.

Had no idea the car would convert European speed limits that it reads into mph - I had switched the digital speedo to km right away, so I never saw that. Of course, the digital speedo is covered up by default by navigation stuff when you have the nav on, and I didn't have time to figure out how to turn that off during the trip, so I had to get used to doing the km-to-mile conversions in my head every time I saw a speed limit sign, at least until we stopped using the car's navigation after several days.

Another advantage for Google Maps over the car's nav on an ED trip is Google Maps has traffic while in Europe, unlike a US-spec bimmer w/nav.
Funny you say that - perhaps having the nav on is why I never saw the speed info. We did have the phone loaded with the gmaps info as well after an incident near st. moritz involving a closed road, a crane parked 5 feet from a wall and me in-between...
I'm assuming the thumb drive is static data (duh)
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