God I love the smell of diesel in the morning.

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06/18/2014 at 07:32 • Filed to: BMW, diesel

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Especially biturbo ones.


DISCUSSION (14)

Kinja'd!!! jkm7680 > DipodomysDeserti
06/18/2014 at 07:33

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Gah, don't go outside.

Kinja'd!!! macanamera > DipodomysDeserti
06/18/2014 at 07:35

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335d?

Kinja'd!!! Brian Silvestro > DipodomysDeserti
06/18/2014 at 07:42

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Dat 335d.

Kinja'd!!! Mattbob > DipodomysDeserti
06/18/2014 at 07:46

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Vacuum gauge is a vacuum gauge and a liar.

Kinja'd!!! DipodomysDeserti > Mattbob
06/18/2014 at 11:20

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What? I'm going by the average economy on the digital gauge, not the instant.

Kinja'd!!! DipodomysDeserti > macanamera
06/18/2014 at 11:23

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Ja.

Kinja'd!!! DipodomysDeserti > jkm7680
06/18/2014 at 11:45

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We're in a cool spell, it was 110F last week!

Kinja'd!!! Mattbob > DipodomysDeserti
06/18/2014 at 12:13

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thats fine, I was just saying, unless you are coasting, your instant gauge is just a vacuum gauge, and not a real instant economy gauge.

Kinja'd!!! jdrgoat - Ponticrack? > Mattbob
06/19/2014 at 03:49

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Older ones? I agree with you completely. But the newer ones... I'm not sure they're as much of a parlor trick. The computer can actually calculate it relatively accurately now, and I wouldn't be surprised if they updated the gauge to respond to calculated vs vacuum now.

Kinja'd!!! Mattbob > jdrgoat - Ponticrack?
06/19/2014 at 07:44

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I'm just going by what I'm seeing. Even some older ones are good though. The one on my e36 isn't just a vacuum gauge. It takes into account the speed of the car. The picture above, doesn't look like it does.

Kinja'd!!! Hasley84 > Mattbob
06/19/2014 at 11:20

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Diesel engines have little to no vacuum.

Kinja'd!!! Mattbob > Hasley84
06/19/2014 at 12:12

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true... I wan't thinking about that. Maybe its based off of the injector signal.

Kinja'd!!! jdrgoat - Ponticrack? > Mattbob
06/19/2014 at 15:04

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Yours doesn't default to infinity when you're stopped? I would say that's a lot better. The newer one kinda makes you feel warm and fuzzy, I guess. I don't own a BMW to comment from experience, but I've driven a few a little bit.

The instant consumption gauge on my car switches to gal/hr when it's stopped. I rather like that even more.

Kinja'd!!! Mattbob > jdrgoat - Ponticrack?
06/19/2014 at 15:09

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Ahh, switching to gallons per hour makes a lot of sense. But yeah, when I am stopped my mpg needle goes to 0.