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      09-14-2014, 08:46 AM   #1
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Steptronic gear display

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New to F32, in my traded E82 I was able to see the shift change from the automatic transmission, the display showed D1 thru D7 based on the gear that the car was running. In my new F32 I can't see that, the only thing that I see in the display is D, I went thru the owners manual with out having any luck on finding if this can be change, any one that can help?

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      09-14-2014, 04:30 PM   #2
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Good question, would be interested to see if this can be done with coding on the F32.

Don't know why BMW removed such information...
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      09-14-2014, 07:19 PM   #3
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For the record, it does show you in sport mode. Perhaps it wasn't deemed as desirable in the general comfort mode?
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      09-14-2014, 09:25 PM   #4
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The only way to display is in sport or manual. I don't find it of very much value in standard drive to know the gear. Then again, I don't find myself in drive all that often
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      09-15-2014, 11:27 AM   #5
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The only way to display the gear is in Manual.

However you can code the car to display the gear in DS....but no one has found for D
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      09-15-2014, 12:43 PM   #6
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The only way to display the gear is in Manual.

However you can code the car to display the gear in DS....but no one has found for D
Hy,

Could you please tell me which code to enable gear number in DS mode ?
I can't have it to work.

I have SAT on my 330d F31 and when i coded in KOMBI the SPA_SPORT_ENABLE and SPA_ENABLE to aktiv then Kombi cluster doesn't work anymore for gear display : nothing is display anymore nor DS nor D ... display stay black

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      09-16-2014, 10:14 AM   #7
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Hy,

Could you please tell me which code to enable gear number in DS mode ?
I can't have it to work.

I have SAT on my 330d F31 and when i coded in KOMBI the SPA_SPORT_ENABLE and SPA_ENABLE to aktiv then Kombi cluster doesn't work anymore for gear display : nothing is display anymore nor DS nor D ... display stay black

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Remove - SPA_ENABLE

For some reason it disables the notification.
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      09-16-2014, 11:48 AM   #8
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Thanks. Will try this and give you feed-back
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      09-16-2014, 04:23 PM   #9
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On my 2015 model 335i, this is the default behavior when engaging sport transmission by flipping the gear shifter to the left, but not when using the button to engage sport mode.
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      10-05-2014, 02:27 AM   #10
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Remove - SPA_ENABLE

For some reason it disables the notification.
It works fine, many thanks MyFastM3.
So just set aktiv SPA_SPORT_ENABLE in KOMBI/3000 to have S1-8 instead of DS

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      10-06-2014, 04:31 AM   #11
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Trouble is, even assuming you could get it to display in "D", the size of the figure shown is too minuscule to be of any real use.
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      10-06-2014, 05:48 AM   #12
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It works fine, many thanks MyFastM3.
So just set aktiv SPA_SPORT_ENABLE in KOMBI/3000 to have S1-8 instead of DS

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Hi what other code did you do? I set aktiv to SPA_SPORT_ENABLE, but still getting DS, even after retrofitting 2tb
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The only way to display the gear is in Manual.

However you can code the car to display the gear in DS....but no one has found for D
Hi I have 205 but vo coded to 2tb, how do I code it to display gear in DS?
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