Quick one.

A JDM car hasn't got the kph / mph digital button to swap the speedo / odo over.

So does your car's ODO reading have a portion of kilometers from when it was in Japan, and a portion of miles since the speedo was converted?

I cant remember any other JDM car having its whole ODO recalculated to miles...

Ta

 

MB, I think I have a gizmo that does it - do you want to check it out?

 

What sort of Gizmo Ian?

I can convert miles and km using a conversion factor - I was just after knowing whether people with JDM cars were running with an ODO display showing a combined kph from when it was in Japan, then miles from when it was converted in the UK.

ie say the car came in with 40'000km on the clock, then comes to UK and the speedo is converted to mph, so it then starts counting in miles from then. Im sure they dont adjust the 40k portion so that it shows in miles?

 

I think they would.

Probably not difficult to do on a digital speedometer if you know how.

 

Hi DBM,

Yes your right, My car arrived in the UK with 52000km's on the clock, had it converted to MPH and now it records in MPH, without converting the km's back into MPH so it starts reading 52001miles on wards

Kiwi

 

AFAIK, mine is all miles. Certainly on my FTO it was converted by the importers (that was a digital odo too). This is what the better importers do. I can't be totally sure as I didn't import the S, but worse case is that if they didn't convert it, the mileage is less than it says.

What does your DC5 have?

 

mines a km/m mix

 

I've been looking at the car bumpf, and the last entry in the japanese service book was at 39K Km, and the MOT done on import says the odo reads 32K. So mine was definitely changed by the importer (which is good).

 

A mixed bag then!

I guess you are right in that whatever it reads now is worst case.

I will find out when I see it later on

 

Here's a possible solution !

Your very first mod

Bharat