A few years ago, I rented a car in Canada. The dashboard was in metric-only (speedometer in km/h only, odometer in km only, thermometer in ℃ only). I think the US is the only major car market that requires dual-labelled dashboards.
On my personal car, I tried to get the get my Subaru dealer to at least switch my thermometer to ℃, but that option is not available on US models. With Subaru, you either get the US defaults, or international defaults. On Feb 26, 2013, at 04:42 , Martin Vlietstra wrote: > A few years ago I rented a car in Sweden and the DTRs were always on - a > requirement of Swedish Law. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf > Of [email protected] > Sent: 26 February 2013 10:04 > To: U.S. Metric Association > Subject: [USMA:52389] Re: Fw: Pickup truck dashboard > > The DTRs are always on, and cannot be switched off. I don't think they are > connected with the dash - the circuitry is built in to the main lighting > wiring. > > John F-L > > -----Original Message----- > From: Pierre Abbat > Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2013 9:34 AM > To: U.S. Metric Association > Subject: [USMA:52388] Re: Fw: Pickup truck dashboard > > On Tuesday, February 26, 2013 09:10:11 [email protected] wrote: >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected] >> Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2013 9:07 AM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: [USMA:52385] Pickup truck dashboard >> >> Assuming you are in the US and looking for a US-spec model, try seeing >> if you can get a Canadian-spec dash. Speedometer will then be km/h >> predominant (with mph as a secondary scale, which should comply with >> US laws), and the other instruments (e.g. outside temperature readout) >> will also be metric. >> >> if you are buying new, you may be able to get a Canadian spec model >> direct (which will then include daytime running lights, but will >> otherwise be almost identical to the US version, although often >> certain specific versions of a model may be available in Canada and >> not the US, and vice versa). If buying used, you might see if you can >> buy Canadian parts and retrofit them. > > I'm in North Carolina, which is pretty far from Canada. I'll ask when I > start looking around. > > Does it have a switch for daytime running lights, or are they always on when > a Canadian dash is installed, or what? > > Pierre > -- > loi mintu se ckaji danlu cu jmaji > > > > ----- > No virus found in this message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 2013.0.2899 / Virus Database: 2639/6103 - Release Date: 02/14/13 > Internal Virus Database is out of date. > >
