MK5 Golf GTI

All Things Mk5 => Mk5 General Area => Topic started by: Tinytim on October 06, 2012, 06:21:08 pm

Title: Oil temp reading
Post by: Tinytim on October 06, 2012, 06:21:08 pm
Drove a MK6 1.4 tsi the other day and to my surprise it had an oil temp reading on the computer as I cycled through the functions. I think this is a really cool thing to have.

Can this be done on my mkV Gti? And if so what's involved.

Disappointed the MKV hasn't got it to be honest.
Title: Re: Oil temp reading
Post by: AlanEdition30 on October 06, 2012, 06:38:32 pm
Yeah buy a polar Fis+, one of its many functions allows an oil temperature to be displayed on the highline screen  :happy2:
Title: Re: Oil temp reading
Post by: scottm72 on October 06, 2012, 06:54:24 pm
Quote from: AlanEdition30 on October 06, 2012, 06:38:32 pm
Yeah buy a polar Fis+, one of its many functions allows an oil temperature to be displayed on the highline screen  :happy2:
one of these polar Fis+. easy to fit ? or not, can i do it myself ?
Title: Re: Oil temp reading
Post by: Andy on October 06, 2012, 07:07:10 pm
they are a bit arkward but  you can fit it yourself  :happy2:this is the one i have in my gttdi
(https://www.mk5golfgti.co.uk/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fdaz.co%2Fmedia%2Fcc20%2Fmaxitrol%2FIMG_0921.jpg&hash=2ec19f89063280109747a2c79f87927c632de443)
Title: Re: Oil temp reading
Post by: bacillus on October 06, 2012, 07:11:39 pm
Quote from: maxitrol on October 06, 2012, 07:07:10 pm
they are a bit arkward but  you can fit it yourself  :happy2:this is the one i have in my gttdi
(https://www.mk5golfgti.co.uk/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fdaz.co%2Fmedia%2Fcc20%2Fmaxitrol%2FIMG_0921.jpg&hash=2ec19f89063280109747a2c79f87927c632de443)

You do know that you can display another parameter in that desktop i.e. six instead of your present five??
Title: Re: Oil temp reading
Post by: scottm72 on October 06, 2012, 07:18:12 pm
roughly how do i fit this item ? also what does the unit roughly cost ?
thanks
Title: Re: Oil temp reading
Post by: Andy on October 06, 2012, 07:18:58 pm
no i didn't--what button do i press to get the 5th one up :happy2:
Title: Re: Oil temp reading
Post by: bacillus on October 06, 2012, 07:38:24 pm
Quote from: maxitrol on October 06, 2012, 07:18:58 pm
no i didn't--what button do i press to get the 5th one up :happy2:
iirc you go into display>screen 1 (for your first desktop) and highlight top line>ok then you should get the display screen showing you top left and top right. just choose your options to fill them like you did for the middle and lower parameters.
Title: Re: Oil temp reading
Post by: Tinytim on October 06, 2012, 08:55:38 pm
Looks brilliant, I'll do a bit of research.
Title: Re: Oil temp reading
Post by: LouCyffer on October 06, 2012, 09:10:13 pm
Richn is the man. I got mine from him, and I'd not want to be without it now. For me the biggest bonus is it displays a true speed, as it takes it's data from the ECU. So you can see how accurate your speedo is. Incidentally I've compared my FIS+ speed reading with GPS data and it's bang on.
Title: Re: Oil temp reading
Post by: Andy on October 06, 2012, 09:42:49 pm
also the boost guage is spot on