03-12-2018, 12:45 PM | #1 |
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2018 Instrument Cluster - mph to kmh
Hey all, I'll be taking a road trip into Canada from the US, this summer, and am wondering if the speedometer in the 2018 model will automatically switch from MPH to KMH? Does the car use GPS to detect that you have crossed into a metricated country?
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03-12-2018, 01:36 PM | #2 |
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Isn't that your excuse to just go 50 MPH everywhere until they help you do the conversion ? But more seriously, doesn't your speedo have both on the face - Unless I'm having one of those implanted memory moments, I could swear mine has both. Otherwise, I think you have to reset the units in one of the personal settings menus on your own.
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03-13-2018, 11:10 AM | #6 |
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Now I'm going to have to go out and check mine - was I confabulating from a past car, or did they decide that it was no longer necessary? Perhaps just one more sign that the USA is trying to divorce itself from the entire rest of the civilized world?
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03-13-2018, 01:35 PM | #10 |
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You can change the units from miles to kilometers in idrive.
That won't change the speedometer. I'll read MPH. It will change the digital readouts: your odometer, trip odometer, remaining range, etc. If you want to see your speed in KPH you'll have to code the car to display the digital speedo. |
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But, don't think there is a way to change the speedometer from MPH to KPH...only the trip mileage, etc. |
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Many organisations in the US (NASA, computer manufacturers, major car manufacturers) have all converted to metric components such as fasteners, engineering drawings, etc. IBM was all metric across the worldwide organisation when I worked for them in 1982. NASA had their famous 1999 Mars probe issue when they mixed up imperial and metric measurements, all good now they are substantially metric. |
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03-14-2018, 08:20 PM | #17 |
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Could be worse. Puerto Rico uses mph for speed and km for distance markers on the highways. Confused the heck out of me how I came up on an exit as fast as I did at 60mph until I realized that the sign was only 1/2km away, not 1/2 mile...
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Hmmm, I'm pretty sure we use Kilometers here, my speedo only shows kph.
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04-03-2019, 06:50 PM | #20 |
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You will need digital speedomoter activated thru coding and then this digital speedometer will be able to change between MPH and KPH.
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04-04-2019, 11:41 AM | #22 |
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Yep and sell the gas by liters since the 80's
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