Featuring a touchscreen and 4 pages filled with the most crucial gauges, this gauge set is meant to fill the void left behind by BMW when it comes to knowing how is the engine doing. While a few select powertrains come with a clunky oil temperature gauge on the cluster, absolutely none come with anything else!
The kit installs in the central air vents, with a choice of a larger 3.5" touchscreen for more visibility or a smaller 2.4" touchscreen which retains airflow through the vent. This is better suited for more extreme climate regions. Installation does not require any tools, and there are step by instructions provided as an online PDF here.
3.5" touchscreen option:
2.4" touchscreen option:
The gauges supported are:
- coolant temperature
- oil pressure
- oil temperature
- turbo boost
- transmission temperature (excepting manual gearboxes)
- intake air temperature
- engine load
- ignition timing
- short and long term fuel trims
- pressures at the outputs of the low and high pressure fuel pumps
- engine oil level - both in absolute level and in liters/qt above minimum level
- instantaneous torque and power readings
- battery voltage
- ambient temperature
These are spread out over several pages, which you scroll through by tapping the touchscreen:
Units can also be configured to match your preference :
The kit supports degrees Celsius or Fahrenheit for temperatures, bar or psi for pressures, Nm or ft-lb for engine torque, lambda or AFR(14.7) for fueling.
Optional features of the kit include:
- automatic selection of SPORT/SPORT+ modes at every engine startup (so that you don't have to keep pressing the sport button every time you start the car)
- color coded gauges - where the color of the gauge indicates the meaning of it. For example, coolant temperature being shown in blue means the engine has not warmed up yet. Green would be OK, orange being "things are getting hot" and red for "no-go zone".
- automatic dimming of the screen based on the brightness of the dashboard(or a manual, fixed brightness). This makes night time driving an absolute pleasure!
These features are configurable at any time in the settings menu shown above.
Please note the following:
- this kit is best suited for cars with a B58 engine in them, as all the sensors should work. B48 should be fine too, as they share many things. NOT suggested for diesels at all, no support can be offered. The older the car, the fewer sensors are supported.
- for cars with manual gearboxes, the transmission temperature gauge might not be operational (year/model dependant)
- for RHD cars, the screen mounts on the vent closest to the driver
- oil level is shown as an instantaneous reading and thus the reading fluctuates slightly while driving
- engine torque is as reported by the engine ECU; power is computed from torque and RPM
- this is an OBD2 device which acts as a OBD2 scan tool. It plugs in the OBD2 port. It is not allowed to have 2 such devices connected simultaneously via splitters or similar. Users of piggyback tuning devices that also connect to the OBD2 port cannot use both devices simultaneously. Instead, if they connect to the more obscure PT-CAN bus then operation of both devices is allowed
Installation manual -> online PDF here
