Cadillac 1996 DeVille Owner's Manual page 138

DISPLAY ONIOFF: Pressing this button will turn off
the DIC, Electronic Climate Control, fuel data center,
the fuel gage, trip odometer and odometer. While the
displays are off, pressing the INFORMATION button
will only turn on the DIC. If the TRIP SET button
is pressed or the fuel level falls below four gallons
(15.2 L), all the displays will come back on.
ENG/MET (EnglishMetric): You can change the
display from English (miles) to metric (kilometers) by
pressing this button. The same button also changes other
readings (like temperature, fuel and odometer).
TRIP SET By using this button you can tell how far
you've gone since you last set the TRIP SET back to
zero. To reset, press and hold the button until zeros
appear. If your vehicle is domestic, the trip odometer
will return to zero after 999.9 miles (1 609
km).
If your
vehicle is Canadian, the trip odometer will return to zero
after 1 999.9
km
(1,242 miles).
INFORMATION: Pressing this button repeatedly will
display the AVG MPG, FUEL USED, AVG MPH, OIL
LIFE LEFT, ENGINE RPM, BATTERY VOLTS and
COOLANT TEMP.
TIMER: This feature is like a stopwatch, in that you
can clock the time it takes to get from one point
to another.
To operate, press the TIMER button until TIMER
0O:OO:OO is displayed on the DIC. Each of the fields for
the hours, minutes and seconds are two numeric digits.
Once TIMER OFF 0O:OO:OO is displayed, press the
TIMER button to start the timing feature. Press the
TIMER button again to stop it, If you will be starting
and stopping your Cadillac, during a trip for instance,
the TIMER feature will automatically start timing where
it left off when you last stopped. To reset it, press and
hold the RESET button until the display reads TIMER
0O:OO:OO. Press the INFORMATION button to exit from
the TIMER function.
RESET Pressing this button will reset the MPG AVG,
FUEL USED, AVG MPH and OIL LIFE LEFT. Pressing
RESET when a non-resettable display appears will
cause a "recall" mode to occur. When this happens, all
DIC warning messages that have been displayed since
the ignition key was turned to RUN will redisplay. If no
messages were displayed, a MONITORED SYSTEMS
OK message will appear.
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