E36 & Dashcommand

[HandsomeMike]

Couldn’t find an answer with search. I bought a Carista adapter and I’m looking for an app that I can customize to show me info including oil temp. Does Dashcommand display oil temp for an e36? All the free apps I’ve tried don’t have oil temp as an option. Want to know before I spend $10 for nothing. Thanks!


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[gdavid]

There isn't an oil temp sensor on the e36 US engines so there is no way for a diagnostic system to obtain the data. Only the European M3 S50's had a sensor for oil temp.

[HandsomeMike]

Wow! That sucks. My 1989 Corvette had an oil temp display from the factory! Very surprising BMW doesn’t have a sensor for this.


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[HandsomeMike]

While driving today with the Carista adapter in and watching my coolant temp through TrackAddict, the temp seemed stationary for long periods of time before updating. Down to the decimal. Is this a problem with slow refresh rate through Carista or does the BMW ECU have a slow refresh rate? I was hoping for streaming, live data for the coolant temp. Everything else is streaming and instant like RPM and throttle position.

[328 Power 04]

Anything that goes through government OBD protocols will be slow.. but not unusably slow.

BMW diagnostic protocols (DS2, etc) are much faster on that car. Windows programs like testo (found on this forum from the author) will log quite nicely.
Yes the car speaks two different diag protocols.

[HandsomeMike]

Thanks for that info. I was hoping to stream to an iOS device during track days to see live temps. Oh well!


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