> > What a busy, busy day I had yesterday and I learned something >very important. >> Everyone, check your speedometers!!!! They may be showing the speed in >> kilometers per hour and that is ***much*** different from miles per hour ! > >Only if you bought one that was originally sold in another market (Just about >everywhere else (outside the US), or had a PO who had a reason to change it to >km/h. Here in the US your speedo should have two scales mph and km/h. >(roughly, 1 km = 0.6 mile) The complete instrument clusters Bus Depot was once selling had METRIC instruments. So all the buses uprgaded to these BD clusters will have metric speedos. Many owners may well never have noticed the "km/h" printed on the speedo face. Note that 1mph=1.61kmh -- Andrew Grebneff 165 Evans St, Dunedin 9001, New Zealand <andrew.grebneff@stonebow.otago.ac.nz> Seashell, Macintosh, VW/Toyota van nut |
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