OBC Question

Plaz 330i said:

Tried to find an answer in the manual to no avail...

Sometimes I'll notice this weird thing when driving with the OBC in the instrument cluster set to show avg. MPG.

I'll come to a stoplight, look down, and the OBC will read "100" or "400," with no unit of measurement. I think I once saw "0," too.

What's that all about? What am I missing here?

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You have Nav system? It's distance to next instruction...For example, if you're approaching a light, and you've got a destination programmed in, it will count down from 800 ft, 600 ft, 400 ft, 200 ft, 100 ft, 0 ft when you reach the intersection.

Someone on .org along with ///Mathew has been complaining that their cars do that as well WITHOUT a destination programmed in. I've never seen it without my nav being activated.

Plaz 330i said:

I'll come to a stoplight, look down, and the OBC will read "100" or "400," with no unit of measurement. I think I once saw "0," too.

What's that all about? What am I missing here?

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I recall seeing a thread on this several weeks ago. Someone postulated that the numbers were the distance in feet to the next turn or something related to the Nav (as it only happens on cars with Nav and the numbers seem to cycle down). IIRC, the numbers were not necessarily accurate and it was determined to be a bug (but most likely related to the Nav).