You guys. These are called Instrument Clusters. Not dashboards. :) The dashboard is the whole thing..the big expanse of black plastic that holds the cluster and airbags and controls, etc.
From: Scott Hudnall <[email protected]>
To: U.S. Metric Association <[email protected]>
Cc: U.S. Metric Association <[email protected]>
Sent: Tue, February 26, 2013 10:22:13 AM
Subject: [USMA:52391] Re: Pickup truck dashboard
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
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> 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
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