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2002-11-05
If I am reading you correctly, it is legal to have
a odometer that reads in kilometres, and it is legal to have a speedometer with
kilometres per hour as the major scale, but not alone. Miles per hour must
appear no matter how small. Is this correct?
Then is there really a need to convert all
car speedometer units made for Canada but resold in the US. If
I'm not mistaken all "American" model cars sold in Canada do have the dual
scale. So, if one of these cars is imported into the US, its
speedometer/odometer unit need not be changed, so why is it then?
This seems to be an unneeded expense.
John
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Tuesday, 2002-10-29 14:26
Subject: [USMA:22988] Re: "Odometer Fraud
Increases in Canadian Used Car Trade
The only US Federal requirement is that the odometer show miles and km,
the odometer in km is perfectly acceptable. Both of my vehicles have km/h as
the primary indication with mph secondary (and near invisible) with km on the
odometer. I imported a car from teh middle east 15 years ago and had all the
federal documentation. The above was the case then and I'm sure it is
now.
Mike Payne
Potomac Falls VA 20165
----- Original Message -----
Sent: 29/10/02 06:13:06
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 speedometer 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
--- Michael Payne
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