Changing Passat speedo from mph to kph?

OU812

Looking for a pre-owned car and came across a nice UK import (Passat). The speedo is in miles which is putting the other half off.

Is there a way to change it and roughly how much would it cost?

Theanswers

OU812 wrote: »

Looking for a pre-owned car and came across a nice UK import (Passat). The speedo is in miles which is putting the other half off.

Is there a way to change it and roughly how much would it cost?

It will also show kph.

Anyways it doesn't take too long to get used too.

If it is a real issue you can buy a speedo from a crashed car and change the dials over to kph.

Just swap the cardboard cutout as the speedo would be coded to the car.

colm_mcm

Passat would have a digital readout too that can be set for km?

OU812

There is a digital multi function display between the two clocks but I couldn’t figure out how to change it & the guy selling it didn’t know either.

colm_mcm

What year is the car? Current model?

OU812

colm_mcm wrote: »

What year is the car? Current model?

2009. I think it’s he last year of the previous model.

bazz26

It's really not that hard to learn to adjust, after all people had to do it back in 2005 when new Irish cars flipped from mph to kph.

SweetCaliber

OU812 wrote: »

There is a digital multi function display between the two clocks but I couldn’t figure out how to change it & the guy selling it didn’t know either.

Is the multi function display white and black or orange and red? Do you have steering wheel controls or a rocker button on the windscreen stalk?

westgolf

OU812 wrote: »

There is a digital multi function display between the two clocks but I couldn’t figure out how to change it & the guy selling it didn’t know either.

Its via the left hand side stalk which has a rocker button top. Use stalk to scroll to correct sub menu and rocker button to change.

OU812

SweetCaliber wrote: »

Is the multi function display white and black or orange and red? Do you have steering wheel controls or a rocker button on the windscreen stalk?

Orange & red. Can’t recall about the controls

OU812

westgolf wrote: »

Its via the left hand side stalk which has a rocker button top. Use stalk to scroll to correct sub menu and rocker button to change.

And that gives a speedometer, not an odometer?

westgolf

OU812 wrote: »

And that gives a speedometer, not an odometer?

Yes. First two sub menus are for trip mileages, keep scrolling down till you come to units heading, click in to that and you have option of imperial or metric.

ironclaw

Yes, you change them. However, be sure to get a letter or cert to ensure the past odometer and the new one are the same (Some cars you can't change the odometer readout). In terms of cost, its a piece of string really but you shouldn't be looking at more than a couple of hundred.

For everyone saying you'll get used to it, personally, that's nonsense. 60km/h is 37mph, if you are doing 40mph, you'll be doing close to 65km/h. Fine back in the day when you would rarely come about a speed trap but with GoSafe you'll be nabbed. Also, it's just a pain considering how easy you can swap out the clocks. You'll also need to consider the resale value of the car.

On a final note, I wouldn't be importing a 2009 car. Next year it will be 10 years old and you'll see a price hike in insurance. Unless you were getting it for a song then I'd try come up a few years. If you have any intentions of selling it, I can't see it adding up to be worthwhile of the hassle of importation.

westgolf

ironclaw wrote: »

Yes, you change them. However, be sure to get a letter or cert to ensure the past odometer and the new one are the same (Some cars you can't change the odometer readout). In terms of cost, its a piece of string really but you shouldn't be looking at more than a couple of hundred.

For everyone saying you'll get used to it, personally, that's nonsense. 60km/h is 37mph, if you are doing 40mph, you'll be doing close to 65km/h. Fine back in the day when you would rarely come about a speed trap but with GoSafe you'll be nabbed. Also, it's just a pain considering how easy you can swap out the clocks. You'll also need to consider the resale value of the car.

On a final note, I wouldn't be importing a 2009 car. Next year it will be 10 years old and you'll see a price hike in insurance. Unless you were getting it for a song then I'd try come up a few years. If you have any intentions of selling it, I can't see it adding up to be worthwhile of the hassle of importation.

Op wanted to change the speedo display from mph to kph not change the actual unit for a different unit.

Grant Stevens

ironclaw wrote: »

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On a final note, I wouldn't be importing a 2009 car. Next year it will be 10 years old and you'll see a price hike in insurance. Unless you were getting it for a song then I'd try come up a few years. If you have any intentions of selling it, I can't see it adding up to be worthwhile of the hassle of importation.

Sorry to go off thread here but is this really a thing at home right now? Forgive my ignorance but I've been abroad for a few years and looking to come back in the near future. I'm aware of the insurance issues for returning Irish but Christ, there's a 10 year rule now? And people have accepted this? First there was the tax thing with pre-2008 cars, now your car's gotta be less than 10 years old? Surely this is passing quietly under the radar due to the availability of easy credit. PCP finance and it doesn't affect most buyers I'd assume but what about those who don't want to splash out on new cars? I can think of much better things to spend my money on
Ironically, I too was looking at Passats/ Golfs and noticed that almost every one of them available are UK imports. The mph/ kmh thing bothers me too!

pablo128

Grant Stevens wrote: »

Sorry to go off thread here but is this really a thing at home right now? Forgive my ignorance but I've been abroad for a few years and looking to come back in the near future. I'm aware of the insurance issues for returning Irish but Christ, there's a 10 year rule now? And people have accepted this? First there was the tax thing with pre-2008 cars, now your car's gotta be less than 10 years old? Surely this is passing quietly under the radar due to the availability of easy credit. PCP finance and it doesn't affect most buyers I'd assume but what about those who don't want to splash out on new cars? I can think of much better things to spend my money on
Ironically, I too was looking at Passats/ Golfs and noticed that almost every one of them available are UK imports. The mph/ kmh thing bothers me too!

Well you could spend maybe an extra hundred or 2 extra on insurance or upgrade to a newer car at a cost of thousands. My car is 13 years old and the missus's car is 12 years old and no problem insuring them. They will be replaced in due course but not because of insurance costs.

And whatever we get will be imported, just like our current cars. Far more value in the UK.

rainbowtrout

ironclaw wrote: »

For everyone saying you'll get used to it, personally, that's nonsense. 60km/h is 37mph, if you are doing 40mph, you'll be doing close to 65km/h. Fine back in the day when you would rarely come about a speed trap but with GoSafe you'll be nabbed. Also, it's just a pain considering how easy you can swap out the clocks. You'll also need to consider the resale value of the car.

On a final note, I wouldn't be importing a 2009 car. Next year it will be 10 years old and you'll see a price hike in insurance. Unless you were getting it for a song then I'd try come up a few years. If you have any intentions of selling it, I can't see it adding up to be worthwhile of the hassle of importation.

Plenty of people were driving cars in mph in 2005 when we had the changeover and there are still plenty of those cars on the road. I imagine all those people are managing fine. Just under 100,000 cars were imported into this country last year alone, the vast majority coming from the UK. With that volume of cars on the road from the UK I can't see resale being a big issue. Just under 69,000 cars have been imported here for the first 8 months of the year. Going by last years figures that should top 100,000 by the end of the year. There are lots of cars on Irish roads with speedo in mph.

OP never said they were importing the car, they said it was a UK import. Was probably imported here previously.

SweetCaliber

Does your cluster have a 0.0 button?

If so holding that for a few seconds should activate the option to give you a speed readout where your odometer is when you start driving, but I can't tell you if it'll be in mph or km/h.

bazz26

ironclaw wrote: »

Yes, you change them. However, be sure to get a letter or cert to ensure the past odometer and the new one are the same (Some cars you can't change the odometer readout). In terms of cost, its a piece of string really but you shouldn't be looking at more than a couple of hundred.

For everyone saying you'll get used to it, personally, that's nonsense. 60km/h is 37mph, if you are doing 40mph, you'll be doing close to 65km/h. Fine back in the day when you would rarely come about a speed trap but with GoSafe you'll be nabbed. Also, it's just a pain considering how easy you can swap out the clocks. You'll also need to consider the resale value of the car.

On a final note, I wouldn't be importing a 2009 car. Next year it will be 10 years old and you'll see a price hike in insurance. Unless you were getting it for a song then I'd try come up a few years. If you have any intentions of selling it, I can't see it adding up to be worthwhile of the hassle of importation.

Getting used to it is as easy or as hard as you make it. Some people just don't like change or don't want to learn. It's a mountain out of a molehill for me and I have been driving second UK cars for a number of years with no problems. If people are that concerned about being a few kph over the limit through a speed trap then stick a GPS speedo app on your phone and use it when your driving or just buy an original Irish car. But it's really not rocket science to do the conversion in your head.

I also don't know why you mention resale value. I'd say nearly 1 in 4 cars on Irish roads is a UK import and I've never had any issues selling or trading mine. They are so common here now it's a non issue.

Jimmy.

Entertaining a car in mph would be like going down on your sister.

bazz26

We'll take your word on that so.