Accessing the gauge cluster setup menu
While not exactly feature packed, generation 4 Jimnys have a couple of settings that can be adjusted through the
Before we begin: The owners manual refers to a couple of features in the gauge menu that do not appear to be available to a Jimny. They probably relate to other Suzukis using a similar gauge setup but with other features. Examples such as single button press for drivers door unlock/double press for all door unlock is not something available to a Jimny (it seems).
Options for the setup are different for the ‘different’ gauge clusters. I’ll be referring (mostly) to the black background, white text cluster which is the Australian cluster. The red background, orange text cluster in other markets has a couple of different behaviours around how the odometer/fuel economy reset works which I’ll try to document at the end here.
Accessing the menu
Press and hold the INFO button on the screen with the ignition on, or the ‘brightness’ button on the gauge cluster (not the trip meter button). You will then get a menu appear in the centre of the gauge cluster like so:
You then navigate through this using the brightness button on the gauge cluster and turn it right (to go down) or left (to go up) and push in the button to pick that option. Currently “Distance unit” is highlighted.
Because it’s on multiple screens, it helps to know what all of the options are for you to work your way through navigating it.
Menu options
In at least Australian cars with automatic headlights, the following are the options in the gauge cluster:
- Distance unit
- Fuel economy
- Language
- Fuel reset
- Temperature
- Clock setting
- Light
- Guide me light
- Back
Laid out, this is how you navigate through them and the submenu options available:
For the final option: Back is how you return out of the menu, though, if you want to get out of it quickly you can just move the car. The dash menu is only enabled when the car is stationary, so moving off from being parked will stop the menu being displayed.
The ignition needs to be in the ON position to enable the dash menu.
Distance unit
This sets the unit for your odometer display. You get a choice of kilometers of miles.
Fuel economy
This sets the units for the fuel economy. By default it is set to km/L, which does tend to confuse some people (since bigger numbers are better, vs. how most people think of fuel economy where bigger numbers are worse).
Your choices here are km/L, L/100km, and MPG (using UK gallons))
Language
Lots of language options (split over a couple of pages): English, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Russian, or Turkish. Not sure if these differ for different markets, but at least in Australia that’s the ones displayed (and the order they’re displayed in).
Fuel reset
The car can automatically reset the average fuel consumption for you, and this is where you set that up. It can be set up as “after refuel”, “with trip A” or “manually”. These do pretty much as you expect:
- After refuel detects when the car has been topped up with fuel and resets the fuel consumption totally automatically
- With trip A relies on you manually resetting the ‘Trip A’ tripmeter in the odometer display
- Manually requires you to use the info button to go through and show the average fuel consumption and reset it in that display instead.
Why would you pick these different options? Fully manually would be what you’d want to do if you want fuel consumption for a long, long period of time i.e. car’s lifetime average. If you use trip A to record a total trip distance, e.g. a super long 4wd adventure, then this would be a good way to track your consumption specifically for that trip. Most people tend to leave it on the default of resetting after every refill as that lets you see if you’re driving differently etc.
Temperature
Nothing special here: pick between Celsius and Fahrenheit for the temperature display for outside temperature.
Clock setting
Want to have the clock set correctly on the dash? This is where you do that. Also lets you pick between 12H and 24H time formats.
Light
Surprisingly this is actually about your indicators and how often they flash for a single tap of the indicator stalk. Do you want one, two, or three flashes? Three is the default and standard expectations in most countries so not really something one needs to change.
Guide me light
This lets you pick how long the headlights stay on for when you unlock the car (the ‘To car’ option) or when you get out of the car before locking it (the ‘To home’ option). Although I haven’t specifically recorded all of the settings, each allow you to do 0, 10, 20 or 30 seconds for duration.
I believe the lights need to be in the ‘auto’ position for this to work correctly.
Back
Gets you out of the menu! Not much more to it than that.
Other dash cluster type behaviours
Since I don’t have a different car from a different market I can’t test this; however, some discussion on Reddit led to a discovery that the options available to you in the red/orange type of display cluster depend on the setting you’re in.
Essentially, the trip meter button gets you trip A, trip B, total odometer, then the ‘INFO’ button on the steering wheel gets you fuel consumption numbers. If you can only cycle through the 3 fuel consumption numbers then press the trip meter button on the gauge cluster, and it’ll go into the 3 odometer display options. If you then press the INFO button then it’ll go into the fuel consumption display and only let you see the three options there.
It’s a weird user interface design but how they’ve chosen to do it.
