Revisting the Instantaneous fuel consumption readout

[AlanD]

Hi group,

Had the 3000 km courtesy service half completed today : , and asked for this facility to be switched on.

Left the car with the dealer at 10:00 am and indicated we would be back at about 4:00 pm.

We kept our part of the bargain. the car was still on the hoist and we then waited for 30 minutes while two service people walked about the place consulting books and fiddling with steering wheel buttons.

Long story short: "Sorry the instantaneos feature can't be had" - but in the course of their probings thay have managed to turn off the long term average consumption readout too! : Discovered this on the way home.

The car is a 2008 January build MA Zetec TDCi sedan:

So if anyone with the same car (Or the hatch version) has had this feature enabled for them can they let me know who did the work so I can direct the metally impaired to a knowledgable person for guidance - even better would be if someone knows the trick and can post it I will do it myself, I'm suspecting a combination of simultaneos button pushes with the ingnition at a particular position. Other things get set/reset with accelerator and brake combinations so I'm expecting to be surprised.

They fiddled with the A/c too and managed to get it colder than it was, but the service guy wants it back next week to complete the service and get the refrigerant load checked out.

You would think that with 6 hours to play with they could have managed to get everything completed before we got back to retreive the car.

And if anyone is wondering why it has taken almost two years to clock up 3000 km its because it sat on the dealer's floor for 18 months until we came along and then we got a $10,000 discount from on road list price. This we are happy with :yeees:

Thanks in advance for replies.

Cheers