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I have a 2009 Passion I picked up in late December 2008. According to the manual, one presses the LEFT button until the colon in the time display blinks, then uses the left and right buttons to adjust the time.
I KNOW that pressing the left button for more than a few seconds makes the TRIP METER first blink, then reset to zero. Sure enough, when I tried to adjust the clock for (ridiculously early) daylight saving time, I zeroed my trip meter and got no response from the clock display.
The online owners manual from http://www.smartcarofamerica.com/forums/cmps_index.php?id=451_smart... says the RIGHT button, but pressing and holding that alone does NOTHING.
What is the straight story on resetting the clock time?
I KNOW that pressing the left button for more than a few seconds makes the TRIP METER first blink, then reset to zero. Sure enough, when I tried to adjust the clock for (ridiculously early) daylight saving time, I zeroed my trip meter and got no response from the clock display.
The online owners manual from http://www.smartcarofamerica.com/forums/cmps_index.php?id=451_smart... says the RIGHT button, but pressing and holding that alone does NOTHING.
What is the straight story on resetting the clock time?
Tags: clock, time setting
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Permalink Reply by Guy K. Haas on -
A HAH!
I entered the (idle) car, and switched the key to position 1, but did not move it to 2 to start the car.
Holding the right button for at least 5 seconds made the time blink (the manual said the colon; it did not say the whole time reading).
I used left and right buttons to adjust the time to my liking, and stopped pressing buttons. After a number of seconds, the blinking stopped.
Before turning the key off, I again pressed the right button -- and held it for way more than 10 seconds. No blinking occurred. Turning the key OFF, then back to 1, again enabled the "press and hold at least 5 seconds" behavior observed before.
I'll spend some time later exploring the larger time increments that the manual talks about, and write up a corrected procedure.
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Cluster Clock....
I thought when something is screwy ..it is a cluster.........now ,What is that word?
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Permalink Reply by Guy K. Haas on
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It's the digital time display on the instrument cluster panel, not the analog clock in a pod that comes with the tachometer/clock option.
Maybe a hyphen will help. It's the instrument-cluster clock.
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LOL mr. x, i don't think anyone else got your joke.....
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Permalink Reply by Eric Juda on
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I reset my clock on Sunday by putting the ignition in the one position and then holding the right button down and the time changed though I had to advance it 25 hours. Never touched the left button. Don't remember if I had to press the right button several times to activate it; I just played around with the right button only. Eric
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Permalink Reply by mr bad example on -
once in the time change mode, the left button reverses the time, i went 2 hours ahead, then one hour back.
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I had a heck of a time changing it back in October. When I had to change it this time it was no easier. I'm thinking about not changing the clock again and just living with the wrong time for half the year.
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