Dembo

I think you're right, but that only applies on the day. Often things are swapped from other cars for SVAs; it's possible some UK clocks were borrowed and fitted just for the SVA, then put back.

It's probably worth asking for an explanation.

LTB

Or a French model either, I'd go as far to say that we are the only European country that have this feature.

taffyb

So correct me if i'm wrong, but if your car has the option to switch on the dash buttons between mph/kmph then its defo a uk car & if it hasn't got this option or is just kmph is obviously an import (europe or jap etc)

eSeM

Nope! only Jap imports don't have the button to convert mph to kmph.

Euro imports are UK specification. This means they are exactly the same as the cars imported into the UK.

mctreacle

Your right!

Ive just spoken to him and he seems to think that the speedo was swapped for the SVA tests and then returned back to origional.

Would this put you off, does it sound dodgy?

mctreacle

Hang on a sec....he's just got back to me. THe bloke who put it through the SVA has just spoke to me. he says:

'there's a chip that been added to the gearbox that has converted it to mph...otherwise it wouldn't of passed'

Can this be done or is he having my pants down?

eSeM

I have one of these on my car as I have a different final drive.

mctreacle

what do you mean by this? what's a final drive?

Dembo

Yes, that's okay (check out the VSS speed converter wiring thread).

But then it would be reading mph and you said it wasn't. Also with the converter, the odometer will be counting miles - are you sure it's 55,000 Kms and not 55,000 miles?

mctreacle

When i went to view it yesterday the speedo read 55km. He said that this equals to 35k miles.

So he must be running this converter but still using the km speedo.

so can the converter display mph (speed travelling) but only show overall mileage in km's?

im confused.