04 cars and metric dash

rcunning03 · 09-03-2004 3:32pm #1

Can someone with an '04 car tell me wheter the speedo is in km/h or are they still showing mph as the dominant numbers and km/h as the harder to see numbers and is the tripometer is metric ?

Hellrazer · 09-03-2004 3:37pm

Still all in MPH and will be until the law changes in the Autumn.
Richie

rcunning03 · 09-03-2004 3:39pm

Still all in MPH and will be until the law changes in the Autumn.

Will it be law that they have to have metric dash's or can they still have the mph dash's ?

leeroybrown · 09-03-2004 3:42pm

I think it'll be a safe assumption that most manufacturers will leave the MPH markings on the dial too for the moment.

Hellrazer · 09-03-2004 3:45pm

Originally posted by rcunning03
Will it be law that they have to have metric dash's or can they still have the mph dash's ?

As far as we can tell it will be ok to keep your car as MPH as long as it also has KPH on it.
But after a certain date all new vehicles will have to be fitted with KPH dash gauges.
It would cost a fortune to start retro fitting KPH dashes to older cars.

sirlinux · 09-03-2004 4:03pm

It's not that expensive to switch over they just put an overlay over the speedo, they dont change the whole thing. It's quite common in the UK for jap imports as the cars there have to have MPH and most jap's dont have it.

Borzoi · 09-03-2004 5:30pm

I had a brand new 04 Vectra over the weekend.

Yes the speedo is still dominated by the mph gauge, with smaller kph. Interestingly it had 30mph and 70 mph in red as oppoesed to white, presumably to mark them particularly.

Yes the milometer is metric, brought the model I had from 11 to 160 over the few days.

On a side note 2l TDi Vectras while monster big internally have no poke, especially when full:D

knifey_spoonie · 09-03-2004 7:20pm

There still in MPH but the yaris's dash is digital so you just hit a button and its in KPH
handy

Psygnosis · 09-03-2004 9:14pm

man just read ur signature absolutely class. The offaly part especially

rcunning03 · 11-03-2004 8:52am

Yes the milometer is metric

What's the mileometer called in metric countries ?

Sleipnir · 11-03-2004 9:13am

odometer.
Milometer was made up by people who didn't know what the hell the real name was!

rcunning03 · 11-03-2004 9:22am

odometer.

I knew that, I just forgot I knew it at this hour of the morning

seamus · 11-03-2004 9:47am

Originally posted by rcunning03
What's the mileometer called in metric countries ?

Kilometerometer. Just rolls off the tongue doesn't it?

echomadman · 12-03-2004 12:25pm

My car gets forty rods to the hogshead and thats the way I likes it

rcunning03 · 12-03-2004 12:38pm

My car gets forty rods to the hogshead and thats the way I likes it

Grandpa Simpson, one of the funniest peole ever !

knifey_spoonie · 14-03-2004 8:22pm

D you know where i could get the dash overlay,it would be very helpful

04 cars and metric dash

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