DVM DVMA9005 improvements and bugs

Hi, 

 

First of all I am really enjoying both DVM and Tool for a while now in my 159 2.2jts manual. After having a lot of experience with the DVM I created a list with bugs and improvement idea's. But first of all my situation:

 

-Car: 2007 159 2.2JTS manual gearbox

-DVM version: Touchscreen model with DVMA9005 software version

-Screen itself is updated to newest version with an SD cart

 

Here is a list of potential improvements:

- Gear indicator for the manual cars, this could be done by looking at the wheel speed/RPM ratio. I could figure out all those ratios for the different gearboxes. 

- Variable shift indicator, instead of giving the warning always at the same RPM, the warning could be depenend on the amout of throttle applied, for example: Below 75% thottle = not racing so give the shift warning at 3000RPM or so, while above 75% throttle give the warning at 6500RPM

- Cruise control set speed, maybe it would be possible to show the speed the cruise control is set to, just like in more modern cars

- I know from the Mancantool that amount of liters fuel left can be seen, maybe something to add to the excitsting ''Car'' page

- Make Trip B always reset after every new startup/day

- Automatic Trip A reset after refueling

- Record page, showing fastest speed record, highest RPM, and fastest acceleration

- G-force ball, as newer sports car have, showing a dot that goes around depening on the current g-forces, maybe not for corners but for acceleration and decaleration known from the change in wheel speed

 

 

Here is a list of bugs I know of right now:

- When using the steering wheel buttons to navigate through different pages does not always work, this used to always work on version 9004

- Automatic recognition when to show the shift warning, everytime I startup my car it will think I have the diesel and will give the shift warning really early unless I go to redline, whenever I do that the DVM knows that I have a petrol version, but does not seem to remember the next time I start my car. This used to work on veriosn 9004. Also in the amusument page the max RPM is not visable again

- After turning cruise control on or off, variables like interior temp will be gone for 10-20 seconds

 

Thanks for reading, for questions and more information you can always contact me, I will update this list if I encounter more bugs or if I can figure out more possible improvements!

 

Niran