When we moved to Canada, no one checked this compliance at all (as we were told beforehand, it should have been checked by Customs officials). Neither did they check the required daytime running lights. If customs were to determine that your vehicle is not admissible to Canada based on these regulations, you have something like 45 days during which you must take it to the local Canadian Tire shop for modification. Originally, we were also told that we will have to change the speedometer to display either km/h only or km/h in a primary position. If we were to do it in the U.S., it would have cost US$400 or so, and a little more than that in Canada. Thank goodness I later got clarification of this policy, which changed its meaning from a requirement to a recommendation (as long as you had km/h somewhere). After driving in Canada for over 2 months now, I can say, that it would have been much easier to switch it over to the km/h speedometer. Whether it is worth US$400 is a different question.
The only time we actually had to deal with specification of odometer calibration was when we were registering and insuring our car with Insurance Corporation of British Columbia (something like DMV in the U.S., but also with monopolising auto insurance functions). Cheers, Nikolay -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-usma@;colostate.edu] On Behalf Of Stephen C. Gallagher Sent: Tuesday, 29 October 2002 4.36 To: U.S. Metric Association Subject: [USMA:22983] Re: "Odometer Fraud Increases in Canadian Used Car Trade" (snip) > do Canadians require that > American cars sold in Canada have their meters converted from miles to > kilometres, or do they allow the car to be sold as is? re: Cars imported into Canada from the US. The speedometers do not have to be changed as long as the km/h markings are there (which, since the 1970s, I have always seen). It doesn't matter that the km/h markings are in smaller print than the mph markings, as long as they are on the speedometer. The odometer does not have to be changed to reflect the distance driven in km. But if it is calibrated in miles, a label must be applied stating that the distance shown is in miles and not in kilometres. Stephen Gallagher
