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Mph still on the clocks

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  • 08-03-2011 12:15am
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    skodacb
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    I know officially Ireland's gone metric well roads signs and petrol stations have yet today while pushing trolleys in the car park know such fun, i saw a good number of 05 up to '11 irish registration cars with Mph dominant speedometers, now I know it's not illegal to have a car with a Mph dominant speedo, but I thought all cars from 2005 were required to have a Km/h only or a Km/h dominant speedo, so how do these cars have Mph??
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    Bodhan
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    English imports


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    skodacb
    Registered Users Posts: 168 ✭✭skodacb


    I thought that too but I asked a owner with a '11 car and he said he asked the dealer for them to be put on the car


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    questionmark?
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    A bit off topic but if I saw somebody looking in my car window. I would be questioning that persons motive, as would most!


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    Anan1
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    skodacb wrote: »
    I thought that too but I asked a owner with a '11 car and he said he asked the dealer for them to be put on the car
    It is possible, but it's a lot more likely that the car's a UK import.


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    skodacb
    Registered Users Posts: 168 ✭✭skodacb


    questionmark? wrote: »
    A bit off topic but if I saw somebody looking in my car window. I would be questioning that persons motive, as would most!

    I wasn looking directly but ya can see most speedos from 5 yards


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    Danbo!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,942 ✭✭✭Danbo!


    skodacb wrote: »
    I thought that too but I asked a owner with a '11 car and he said he asked the dealer for them to be put on the car

    I'd say the vast majority of the cars you saw were imports. The guy you asked was a rare case. My aul wan (who drives an 09 auris with mph dominant dial, a uk import actually) still talks in mph, but I reckon if she was buying brand new she'd accept and learn kph. That guy obviously didn't wanna learn the kph version of the speed limits


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    Iwannahurl
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    skodacb wrote: »
    I wasn looking directly but ya can see most speedos from 5 yards


    Or 4.572 metres, to be post-2005 about it. :)


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    Esel
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    skodacb wrote: »
    I wasn looking directly but ya can see most speedos from 5 yards
    I told you a thousand times not to be exaggerating.... :D

    Not your ornery onager



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    coylemj
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    Lots of car enthusiasts look into the cabs of cars to study the dash, don't see why someone should make a big deal of it.


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    skodacb
    Registered Users Posts: 168 ✭✭skodacb


    Iwannahurl wrote: »
    Or 4.572 metres, to be post-2005 about it. :)


    i suppose its bad to be 23 years old and still think in the old measures lol, I can't make hide nor hair of these metric booby traps


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