Date: Sat, 11 May 2002 10:58:58 -0400
Reply-To: 80 Westy Pokey <pokey@VANAGON.ORG>
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From: 80 Westy Pokey <pokey@VANAGON.ORG>
Subject: Re: Warning!!! Check Your Speedometer
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Phew, thank you for the warning! As it turns out I have been
driving around with a KMPH speedometer for over two years
now! Lucky for me all of the speed limit signs in Canada are
also in KMPH so I have been going the CORRECT speed because
of the coincidence.
Thanks,
Chris
--- Original message ----
>Date: Sat, 11 May 2002 08:57:50 EDT
>From: Ronald Gregory Smithers <Rgsmithers@AOL.COM>
>Subject: Warning!!! Check Your Speedometer
>To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
>
>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!
>
>My dear friend, Thor, and I tried to take the Vanagon to be
detail cleaned
>and polished yesterday. After driving on the four lane
highway for a few
>miles, Thor, who was following me, started to flash the
headlights like an
>insane man. Not knowing what was wrong and more than a
***little***
>panicked, it was all I could do to pull over without
wrecking. I jumped out
>expecting something to be drastically wrong only to be told
by Thor, in a
>rather snippy tone, that I was driving too slowly.
Although I kept going
>faster and faster, this same scene was acted out by us
twice more in ten
>miles. By the third time we stopped, Thor was having a
***hissyfit****!!!
>As I thought I had been driving at an absolutely terrifying
85 miles per
>hour, we decided that my speedometer must be broken.
>
>Instead of the car detail shop, we dropped the Vanagon at
the Volkswagen
>dealership. My spirits were lifted when we returned to
pick up the Vanagon
>because there is nothing wrong with the speedometer
mechanism. :) It is only
>that the speedometer shows the speed as kilometers per hour
which is slower
>than miles per hour. Look on the face of your speedometer;
if it says
>"km/h", drive faster. I know this is hard to believe, but
it will show 100
>(!!!!) when you are going sixty miles per hour. Paco, the
mechanic,
>explained it all to me. Also, he was very excited about my
van and he would
>like to buy it whenever I sell it. You meet the
***nicest*** people when you
>are driving a Vanagon!
>
>Pinky
