Providence
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I totally agree with this. It's like having a new car.
ColourDIS Users' Thread
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I totally agree with this. It's like having a new car.
dj_efk
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As has been said, this thread is a massive tease.
It sounds like pretty much all of the mentioned functionality is built into our Touran’s on-board computer and DIS equivalent screen on the dash - complete with the dipping passenger mirror (which incidentally only works when that mirror is selected too, so that quirk is 100% OEM!). On that car I have found the oil temperature reading to be invaluable to tell me when the engine has actually fully warmed up - or cooled down after a fast / hard journey.
It sounds like pretty much all of the mentioned functionality is built into our Touran’s on-board computer and DIS equivalent screen on the dash - complete with the dipping passenger mirror (which incidentally only works when that mirror is selected too, so that quirk is 100% OEM!). On that car I have found the oil temperature reading to be invaluable to tell me when the engine has actually fully warmed up - or cooled down after a fast / hard journey.
Given the diagnostics ability I suddenly wondered a couple of days back whether the cDIS has a feature somewhere in the menus allowing one to log in to the ECU and switch code blocks (as I can with my ODB reader) between engine maps. I've not been able to find it, but was wondering if anyone else (@timmus?) knows or if this is a feature that it could be capable of in a future update.
timmus
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The mirror-dipping function of Colour DIS is indeed very handy, and is often reported to me as a favourite feature of the upgrade. Although it can be switched on/off within the Colour DIS settings menu, everybody tends to keep it permanently enabled, because it can be switched on/off by using the mirror selection joystick on the driver's door. The logic of this makes total sense, as you don't always want your mirror to dip when reversing. When I reverse out of my driveway, or in Sainsbury's car park, I need my passenger-side mirror to remain looking directly backwards. However, when parallel parking against a kerb, it's handy to have the mirror angle downwards.
This has been discussed. There are those who recognise the advantages, but equally those who don't believe that Colour DIS should be able to make such fundamental changes to the car. The last thing that the development consortium want is complaints that "Colour DIS ruined my car". There are already A2s appearing for sale that've had the Colour DIS upgrade, and there's no guaranteeing that the new owner will have as good an understanding as the original purchaser of the upgrade. Handy as it would be to be able to easily switch between two maps with a simple setting in the cluster (standard map vs. remap, winter map vs. summer map, track map vs. road map, EGR map vs. no EGR map, etc), it opens a potential can of worms.
I probably owe both of you a PM. I'm gradually getting through them all; promise.
Cheers,
Tom
2work
Well Known Member
Oh this is such a tease Tom.The mirror-dipping function of Colour DIS is indeed very handy, and is often reported to me as a favourite feature of the upgrade. Although it can be switched on/off within the Colour DIS settings menu, everybody tends to keep it permanently enabled, because it can be switched on/off by using the mirror selection joystick on the driver's door. The logic of this makes total sense, as you don't always want your mirror to dip when reversing. When I reverse out of my driveway, or in Sainsbury's car park, I need my passenger-side mirror to remain looking directly backwards. However, when parallel parking against a kerb, it's handy to have the mirror angle downwards.
This has been discussed. There are those who recognise the advantages, but equally those who don't believe that Colour DIS should be able to make such fundamental changes to the car. The last thing that the development consortium want is complaints that "Colour DIS ruined my car". There are already A2s appearing for sale that've had the Colour DIS upgrade, and there's no guaranteeing that the new owner will have as good an understanding as the original purchaser of the upgrade. Handy as it would be to be able to easily switch between two maps with a simple setting in the cluster (standard map vs. remap, winter map vs. summer map, track map vs. road map, EGR map vs. no EGR map, etc), it opens a potential can of worms.
I probably owe both of you a PM. I'm gradually getting through them all; promise.
Cheers,
Tom
My A2 will be will be wherever and whenever you need it for this exceptional addition.
Kind regards,
Tom
2work
Well Known Member
Tom @timmus, Steve @Birchall and Jeremy @sciroccorrado,
Thank you so much for teasing me. You will no doubt know that I, only yesterday had this incredible upgrade:
I sat on my driveway playing with every page possible this morning and it’s just marvellous. Love the passenger mirror dip when reverse is selected.
So much information can be quickly accessed on demand.
As Tom simply puts it... Elegant.
Kind regards,
Tom
Thank you so much for teasing me. You will no doubt know that I, only yesterday had this incredible upgrade:
I sat on my driveway playing with every page possible this morning and it’s just marvellous. Love the passenger mirror dip when reverse is selected.
So much information can be quickly accessed on demand.
As Tom simply puts it... Elegant.
Kind regards,
Tom
Birchall
Dick Chown Award 2016
It really is amazing. The things it can do (or show you) is incredible.
Steve B