Usually UK cars have the option of UK gallons (and "current/cumulative mpg")
via the readout. I've yet to see an in-board computer display litres
(unless, as you have done, you reset it to show otherwise)
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]>
Subject: [USMA:38765] Re: Mazda's hidden Celsius switch.
Date: Fri, 25 May 2007 16:12:10 +0000
In my 1999 Saab 9-5 there is a documented option for the car's display.
You push two buttons simultaneously and one of the following four choices
can easily be selected.
USA - Full Wombat. F, miles, gallons, 12 hr clock.
UK 1 - F, miles, liters, 12 hr clock.
UK 2 - C, miles, liters, 12 hr clock.
Metric - Full SI. C, km, liters, 24 hour clock.
I may be a bit off on what appears on the two UK versions.
No one need ask what setting is in my car.
Carleton
-------------- Original message --------------
From: "Brian White" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> My Audi you simultaneously hit the Recirc and off buttons for 2-3
seconds and
> the HVAC temp and the outside temp display in the instrument cluster
both
> turn to Celsius.
>
> The issue with the German cars (VW and Audi in particular, I have a VW
Golf
> R32 and an Audi Allroad) were in changing the clock to 24 hour but
keeping
> miles without it changing also to Imperial gallons.
>
> My BMW 540i changes to 24 hour time via the menu in the radio/computer.
Easy
> as pie. I never tried to change it to Celsius.
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, 24 May 2007 21:46:25 -0700, Harry Wyeth wrote
> > Well, if anyone has a Prius and can tell me how to do this, I would
> > be indebted! This otherwise wonderful vehicle has a F outside temp
> > display and everyone, including the online chat groups, says it
> > can't be changed. They say the USA imports are hard wired for F
> > temp displays.
> >
> > A six-pack of your favorite brew to anyone who can help me.
> >
> > HARRY WYETH
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Remek Kocz
> > To: U.S. Metric Association
> > Cc: U.S. Metric Association
> > Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2007 21:03
> > Subject: [USMA:38759] Mazda's hidden Celsius switch.
> >
> > I visited a Mazda dealership to look at a Mazda 3. Like most cars
> > nowadays, it had an ambient temperature display on the dash.
> > Thinking it a long shot, I asked the salesman if there was a way to
> > switch the temperature to Celsius. He lit up, and said that yes
> > there was, mentioning that he just learned it in training a few days
> > before. One had to press a couple of buttons and then hold them
> > for 5 seconds. The temperature did indeed switch to Celsius. We
> > never got into any kind of metric conversation, but the salesman did
> > volunteer a couple of things: this was an undocumented feature,
> > nowhere to be found in the user's manual, and that Mazda will most
> > likely make this process easier in the coming years.
> >
> > It's interesting to consider that Mazda actually made a point of
> > conveying this little trick to its US salesforce. And I consider
> > myself lucky that my salesguy remembered it. Having read here what
> > pains people went to with German cars, I'm glad to see that Mazda
> > makes this a fairly painless process.
> >
> > Remek
>
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