wessy
Active Member
I’ve watched soooooo many YouTube videos about the SE since I first started thinking about buying one last summer — especially while I was literally waiting for my ship to come in after ordering mine! — that the YouTube algorithm continues to let me know of SE videos I haven’t seen yet, even incredibly obscure, rarely viewed ones, like the one I’m about to tell you about.
Here it is in all its crying-out-for-a-remake-with-higher-production-values* glory. (*Paging @GvilleGuy!
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It’s really the description of the video (see photo below), more than the video itself, that’s revelatory; from it, you’ll learn that pressing and holding the trip odometer reset button on the upper left corner of your instrument cluster activates a “secret menu” that lets you (among other things, none of which I investigated) reset the range on your GOM:
Anyway, I tried it, and it’s a bit cumbersome, but it works; after resetting, my predicted range at 100% SoC increased from 90 to 116 miles. Which might make the GOM at least somewhat more useful than it typically is — so I figured y’all might want to know.
(Probably too much to hope for, but how cool would it be if you could use Bimmercode to program the range to automatically reset to this ostensibly more accurate figure every time you charged to 100%, and/or let you reset the range estimation in some much quicker, easier way than messing around with this “secret menu” every time, regardless of your SoC — like, maybe using one of the six programmable memory buttons on the center screen?
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If folks think this info might be of adequate interest to fellow owners, would someone with better videomaking skills than me please consider making a new version of this video for the SE community, perhaps actually showing the button being pressed and held for 10+ seconds to demonstrate how to click through and select the different levels of the menu — along with some accompanying narration explaining what you’re doing, of course, the absence of which is what I find most lacking about the existing video — to present this info in a more readily understandable form?
And big thanks for discovering this “secret menu” to YouTuber “tsrr,” to whom I mean no disrespect in my pleas for a new, improved version of their video efforts!
Here it is in all its crying-out-for-a-remake-with-higher-production-values* glory. (*Paging @GvilleGuy!
)It’s really the description of the video (see photo below), more than the video itself, that’s revelatory; from it, you’ll learn that pressing and holding the trip odometer reset button on the upper left corner of your instrument cluster activates a “secret menu” that lets you (among other things, none of which I investigated) reset the range on your GOM:
Anyway, I tried it, and it’s a bit cumbersome, but it works; after resetting, my predicted range at 100% SoC increased from 90 to 116 miles. Which might make the GOM at least somewhat more useful than it typically is — so I figured y’all might want to know.
(Probably too much to hope for, but how cool would it be if you could use Bimmercode to program the range to automatically reset to this ostensibly more accurate figure every time you charged to 100%, and/or let you reset the range estimation in some much quicker, easier way than messing around with this “secret menu” every time, regardless of your SoC — like, maybe using one of the six programmable memory buttons on the center screen?
)If folks think this info might be of adequate interest to fellow owners, would someone with better videomaking skills than me please consider making a new version of this video for the SE community, perhaps actually showing the button being pressed and held for 10+ seconds to demonstrate how to click through and select the different levels of the menu — along with some accompanying narration explaining what you’re doing, of course, the absence of which is what I find most lacking about the existing video — to present this info in a more readily understandable form?
And big thanks for discovering this “secret menu” to YouTuber “tsrr,” to whom I mean no disrespect in my pleas for a new, improved version of their video efforts!
