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2002-10-24
Did you chance it and just bring the Canadian vehicle with
the metric speed/odometer back to the US? Do the border guards
really check that closely? And what's to stop you from bringing the metric
unit back with you and putting back in once you got back home?
Just think if the Canadian cars that are sold in the US
never would have been required to change the speedometer units, how many people
in the US would be driving metric cars now!
John
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Tuesday, 2002-10-29 06:00
Subject: [USMA:22981] Re: "Odometer Fraud
Increases in Canadian Used Car Trade"
In a message dated 2002-10-28 23:52:22 Eastern Standard
Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
2002-10-28
Exactly why MUST their speedometers and
odometers be changed to miles? Why
can't and don't the cars just
keep the original equipment?
Personally I'm overjoyed that this
cheating has happened. It shows the cost
and the folly of not
keeping the vehicles metric. 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?
John
Federal law. I was in Montreal
in August when my ancient 1988 Saab 900 died (engine blew). A dealer
there took the hulk off my hands. I knew I had to buy another used
car. They had a couple of nice ones. I went onto the Internet at
my friend's house to do some research. Turns out Saabs for the USA and
Canadian markets are identical so no problem with the emissions or the safety
equipment, but there is one difference: those sold in Canada have
speedomers in km (ONLY - good for them). To get it across the border I
would have had to have it replaced. If it had miles inside that might
have worked; I don't know. Odometers in km are ok; it's the speedometer
that is the problem.
Ironically, there was a two-year loophole
(1999-2001) in which EITHER miles OR km were acceptable. In 2001 they
caught it, dammit. "We meant miles are mandatory, not optional.
Sorry."
So there's the problem.
I don't know if it works the
other way. American cars have km on the dial but it's almost grudgingly
obscure. On the car I bought down here, km on the inside lights up in
bright orange; miles on the outside in dimmer green.
The situation that
has led to this idiocy should have ended long ago.
Carleton
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