Most Obscure Gen III Facts (way out there)

Boy, that's a good one. Truly obscure... Never would have guessed that.

 

Under the Setup -> Vehicle -> Maintenance menu, there are three Personal data items that you can list with reminder !!

I used one for my Cabin Air Filter to remind me to clean it every 5000 miles.

 

I hope the aftermarketers and hackers have determined that you can safely overspeed MG1 on the standard Gen III to get the higher EV speed. How about the warranty? Disintegrating a MG1 would be very unpleasant and costly. Just because you get away with it for a while is no assurance long term. Maybe it's constructed the same way as in the PHEV and will survive. Getting higher EV speeds in the Gen III HEV will not improve mpg. All the energy comes from gasoline. It's more efficient to drive the wheels with the ICE than drive a generator, charge a battery, discharge a battery and run a motor to drive the wheels. The EV mode allows the ICE to duty-cycle at higher "on" (propelling + charging) loads at lower speeds. It is counter productive at higher speeds.

 

Had the front parking sensors installed yesterday.

They must have disconnected the battery as I lost my trip history data ( really peeved at losing the last one as I had 3.9l/100km average after 200km)
However I did not lose my Nav memory points, phonebook etc.

When I picked up the car it had 2.5km on the trip meter for the test drive with an average consumption of 12.8l/100km. Next service I will let them know that I do not appreciate my pride and joy being used as a drag machine on the test drive.

David

 

Is that because there is no more snow due to global warming?

 

Most cars that i've been in automaticaly disable recirc during defog/defrost. This is to get rid of the evaporated humidity within the cabin, so it does not recondense on the windshield.

My obscure fact:
I havnt been able to figure out how to select upper (or mixed upper & lower) blower, and "AUTO" climate control, at the same time. AUTO always just turns on just the lower blower, and pressing MODE, to change the blower mode, switches it out of AUTO.

 

I think it has to do with the temp. If the thermostat is set to a temp higher than the ambient temp readout, the auto selects the lower blower assuming you'd like to heat the car

 

there is a little rubber pad in the door handles that you can take out using you fingernails.





why couldn't the also put some in the center console?

 

Ahhh... That's the mistake. They assume I want to heat the car. I really want to heat my exposed face and hands.

 

Can the a/c controls be programmed by Techstream to do what you want?

 

Looking into the vent issue while in auto mode from a few posts back I ran into something bizarre:

it looks like there's a moving 2 degree overlap temperature at which the auto climate control switches from upper to lower vents.
At first I was convinced that it would switch to "lower" if you went UP to 73 degrees, and oddly switches back to lower when you go DOWN to 71 degrees. But I'm finding that this upper and lower limit shifts a few degrees (like I can get it to switch at 74 degrees, and again at 71). Confused.

 

Discovered today that not only can you have separate volume, bass, trable settings for the different audio inputs (CD, Radio, ...) but the CD slot has separate settings for music CD and WMA CD. Just going to rip an MP3 CD and see if that has its own settings too.

Also, turning the volume down to zero (or hitting mute) doesn't pause the CD. My previous car CD players did this.

 

I have my heater set on auto 68 on all of the time. Firstly it doesn't turn the heater on until the engine is warmed up and it automatically turns the wind shield defroster on for a short time. I had to look twice when I first saw that happen.

 

Don't know if this is already posted. Decided to change the oil today at 2,000 miles (kind of a contortionist challenge). I've never encountered a vehicle where the entire underside of the engine compartment is covered by shields, and the one under the oil pan is insulated to boot.