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Originally Posted by billh
I have just installed one of these, after your recommendation, looks to work well, once I got the set up right. A bit disconcerting that it doesn't go off for some minutes after locking up the car- presume the car's ecu doesn't shut down for a few minutes after ignition off?
It's in the cubby hole on the right of the dash at the moment, I might experiment with position after some use.I think it looks a bit untidy on top of the dash.
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Originally Posted by cb750chris
The other option available is to adjust the data held in the ipk to change the temperature gauge set points.
I have adjusted mine (diesel) so that the needle leaves the 'normal' position at 95 degrees, and the 3/4 position is indicated at around 110 degrees (106 degrees is when the cooling fan switches to medium speed, so I would class that as the point that something is not right on a diesel).
This can be done on all engine variants, but the set points chosen may be different - I have tried to keep her normal position for the normal temperatures seen when running my car, and then anything outside normal is reflected in the before position.
See this post for a bit more information
https://the75andztclub.co.uk/forum/s...30&postcount=4
Regards
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That's amazing! I suppose the advantage with this little gadget is that as my KV6 was misbehaving I could see what was and wasn't happening every time I messed around with it. So for example the fan would come on at 100 but wouldn't cool the engine and the temp would creep up very slowly till I bypassed the oil cooler. Soon as I did that the fan comes on at 100 and quickly brings the temp down to 93ish. So it's been a good analytical tool but I suppose it you don't have any issues you'd be better better just modifying the gauge. If you don't use TOAF or T4 how do you do it?